The 19 year old young boy who made big news by being the first to unlock iPhone two years ago, is again hitting the headlines with his jailbreak software for the iPhone 3G S. George Hotz, named his jailbreaking softare “purplera1n”.
Hotz has made his software awailable to the public for download through his website. One needs to backup all his data before running the software on his iPhone 3G S. The beta version is currently availabe for windows only but Hotz promises to release a Mac version soon through his blog.
The users need to be running the iPhone Software 3.0 and the latest version of iTunes. The jailbreaking is done in just a few easy steps. Connect your iPhone normally. “Click “make it ra1n”. Wait. On bootup, run Freeze, the purplera1n installer app. Hopefully you’ll figure out what to do from there” Hotz explains in his blog.
For the iPhone Dev team, Hotz sends a message through his blog. “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. Also your purplera1nyday files ensure that you can always get back to a jailbroken state, so if you have it it’s just a matter of tools.” says Hotz
This boy was the first to unlock the iPhone and put it for auction on eBay. But had to remove the sale because of fake biddings making the auction reach sky high $100 million. Later, the then 17 year old Hotz, exchanged the iPhone for a Nissan 350Z and three unlocked iPhones.
For those of you who do know, Jailbreaking is done to allow your iPhone to run those applications which are unofficial and are available outside the Apple’s App Store. While unlocking is done to allow the iPhone to run on wireless networks that the phone is not licensed.
via [AppleInsider]
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