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People owning an iPod touch 2G are out of luck - the current version of QuickPwn cannot jailbreak these devices
Sometimes having “legacy” hardware pays out: my first-gen iPod touch has a hardware vulnerability which will ensure its jailbreakability for the years to come (according to iphone-dev).

Apple’s recent firmware update brought a variety of small changes which made it incompatible with WinPwn: but QuickPwn makes for a lovely substitute. Download QuickPwn here, connect it to your PC and follow the steps displayed on-screen as they pop up (be prepared to press the buttons):

The jailbreaking process took about 10 minutes on my Core Duo workstation; images displayed on the iPod’s screen inform you about the state of the procedures:

After jailbreaking, your iPod will reboot. Surprise surprise - all your stuff is still there. However, you now have two new application “stores” to choose from…offering a wealth of jailbroken applications:

I have already picked out a few interesting ones - stay tuned!

I can fully understand that my colleagues at Engadget’s were pissed at the iphone-dev folks - their download policy borders on insanity.

As WinPwn doesn’t support firmware 2.1 currently, I had to switch over to the iphone-dev-team’s QuickPwn application. Unfortunately, the boys seem to advocate BitTorrent as download tool of their choice for some weird reason.

While I fully understand that they can not (and don’t want to) host the files themselves, I wonder why they don’t use a service along the lines of RapidShare. RS actually caters to pirates - so they definitely will be able to handle a puny 20MB file.

The current situation is not acceptable IMHO. Many users can’t/won’t install BitTorrent to their machines for a plethora of reasons - locking them out IMHO borders on idiocy and is a sure-fire way to become irrelevant in the future.

P.S. I am fully aware that a list of mirrors is offered. Nevertheless, third-party mirrors can always be contaminated (maybe at the behest of a Redmond-based law firm which incidentally employs a few programmers)…

P.S.2 The JailBreak worked - more in a jiffy!