iPhone Hacks · Hacks, Cracks, Mods, Homebrew, Utilities

Update: Browse to http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com on your iPhone 1.1.1 or iPod Touch and it will crash Safari… Only leaving you with full read+write access to the device’s file system! Don’t jump the gun though, I’d only recommend doing this if you have a good understanding of how all this stuff works. Niacin states a full tutorial and breakdown of the TIFF exploit will be available in the next day or so. Apple will more than likely patch said vulnerability in a future software update.

Still not available to the public; however, iPhone hackers Niacin & Dre have managed to combine the symlink hack with a newly discovered TIFF vulnerability found in Mobile Safari. When put into practice you’ll be granted full read+write access to the iPhone’s file system, and the iPod Touch for that matter. Engadget has confirmed this method to work, but there are a couple caveats…

• Thus far the hack isn’t entirely without issues. We’re still trying to determine exactly what’s what, but we’ve lost read and write access unexpectedly. This may or may not be a problem with our machine or device, though, and not necessarily the hack.
• We did not test this method on an iPhone, but technically there should be no difference in the effect. Side note: your v1.1.1 iPhone would, at this time, need to be activated to load the TIFF. (How else are you gonna load it?) This is supposedly being worked on.

Rest assure, once the kinks are worked out, we’ll have an easy do-it-yourself method to jailbreak any 1.1.1 iPhone. In the meantime, you know what to do, and it’s certainly not upgrading.

- source: engadget