Geohot (George Hotz), the first person to ever unlock the iPhone is at it again. He has released the iPhone 3GS jailbreak — before the Dev Team! The Dev Team originally planned on releasing the jailbreak after the iPhone 3.1 update but Geohot didn’t agree with this so he decided to release his own jailbreak today. Here is what Geohot posted on his blog about releasing his jailbreak early:

Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.

The Dev Team did not want to release their jailbreak early because they felt that it would benefit relatively few people and thought it would be best to keep the vulnerability out of Apple’s eyes for now. Unlike all the current iPhone and iPod Touch devices, the iPhone 3GS cannot always be jailbroken. Apple can permanently patch this with a simple update. Now that Geohot has released this jailbreak, Apple may be able to examine it and permanently patch the exploit in their next iPhone 3.1 update.

Update: Go to Jailbreak iPhone 3GS 3.0 with purplera1n for a step-by-step guide on how to jailbreak your iPhone 3GS. Its easy!

Note: The purplera1n jailbreak software is in beta, and Winterboard does not work with it. As of right now you can only jailbreak using Windows (it won’t work with Windows 7). You may want to wait until the Dev Team at http://blog.iphone-dev.org releases their jailbreaking software.

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