Just a couple of hours back, Apple had officially released its iOS4.1, along with a stern warning for all the jailbreakers out there.
However, seems like nothing could deter the hackers from experiencing that adrenalin rush that comes with jailbreaking an Apple device. Apparently, an iPhone hacker known as pod2g has come up with a lethal new hack. The latest exploit is bootrom based, which effectively means that it attacks the weaker link in the chain, and cannot be easily fixed.
Basically, a hack can exploit a rewritable or a non-rewritable component of a product. In the case of a re-writable component hack, the company can simply come up with a new firmware update and can fix the problem. However, there is no such quick fix in the case of hacks involving non-rewritable modules. The only way out is to modify the hardware and ship the updated products. So with pod2g's new bootrom hack, Apple is going to have a new headache of restructuring its hardware. At the very same time, it also means that all the Apple products already out in the market are pretty much giving you a come-hither look and are just begging you to jailbreak them. However, Apple has encountered this sort of problems earlier too and at that time it had taken the company seven months to ship the updated hardware.
Source: MobileCrunch