New iPhone 3GS Units Resist Jailbreak

Bad news, everyone! The latest iPhone 3GSes are apparently shipping with a ROM that is no longer vulnerable to the 24kpwn exploit that had made the last jailbreak possible. Members of the iPhone Dev-Team have confirmed the problem, and are undoubtedly getting down and dirty to work around it, but in the mean time, pick up an iPhone 3GS that you know isn’t fresh from the warehouse if you have any inkling of jailbreaking it. This dance between hackers and Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is going to be going on for some time…

[via iClarified]