coolest hack ever

I can't believe how awesome this is.

If you load up jailbreakme.com on your iPhone or iTouch, you can hack it, without a PC, over the air. It hacks the phone, and drops on installer.App, which allows you to download literally anything else you want on your phone.

Keep in mind that people didn't think we'd be able to hack 1.1.1 at all, or as of just a week ago, the steps to do so involved a full page of painful instructions. These guys did a hell of a hacking job, so much so that I immediately gave them a Paypal donation, and up to this point, I'd never done a micropayment donation before.

Think about what this means to the hacking movement. Someone expresses interest in your hacked iPhone, but they don't want to do it to their own, because they're scared of "bricking" it, or they think it's too hard.

You just send them to that website, and boom, it's unlocked and ready to go. No pairing to the right machine with iTunes, no bricking, nothing. It's the kind of hack that gives me goosebumps as an engineer.

I'm sure Apple will close this TIFF flaw in the next firmware update, but then the hackers will figure out something else. And so on. And what's really funny is that they're nice enough to fix the TIFF loophole when they hack your phone, so it actually ends up MORE secure than when you started. That's hilarious.

Anyway, enjoy. I certainly have.