iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2 Jailbroken

Never ones to let a change to the iPhone Developers License Agreement slow them down, hackers have released a QuickPWN 3.0 BETA Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.0 Beta 2.

As I previously wrote, Apple has updated their iPhone Developers License Agreement to forbid jailbreaking, or assisting in jailbreaking. And, in case there are too many betas in that QuickPWN sentence, it's a beta version of their jailbreak, for the current (and just released) Beta 2 version of the upcoming iPhone OS 3.0. It is an unofficial jailbreak, and may in fact affect the modem baseband code, which will possibly render unlcoking impossible.

Not that anyone wants to unlock the iPhone for other carriers, right?

At any rate, this is an unofficial release; it did not come from the iPhone Dev Team, who noted not just the obvious (why release a tool until the release is final?) but also warned:

Why did we not release the jailbreak two weeks ago when the above image was captured and hashed? There are many reasons, mostly resource-related:

1. We don’t want to have to release a new version of PwnageTool and QuickPwn for every beta release. Last time around during the 2.0 beta period, there were nine (9!) Apple releases, spaced within a few weeks of each other.
2. here are unresolved problems that we’re still working on. It’s currently impossible to get the 3.0 firmware to talk to baseband 02.28 where yellowsn0w lives, for instance.
3. We don’t want to have to support everyone who wants to back down from the betas…because the betas are, well, buggy.
4. It’s silly to play cat&mouse with Apple during a beta period, when relatively few people are willing to actually use the beta software in their everyday lives. There are ways Apple can tighten the screws, and we’d rather not burn methods just for a beta release.
   

THE MOST IMPORTANT THING ABOUT THE UNOFFICIAL QUICKPWN RELEASES IS THAT IF YOU USE THEM, YOU WILL KILL YELLOWSN0W, POSSIBLY FOREVER.

So, the message is that unless for some reason you are desperate for a jailbreak and/or don't care about unlocking your iPhone, don't bother with these unofficial releases.

Thing is, the "game" will start anew when the new iPhone is released. As the iPhone Dev Team says:

Of course it’s not really a surprise that it can be jailbroken. One of the nicest things about the jailbreaking iPhones and iPod Touches nowadays is that once a given device can be jailbroken, it can always be jailbroken. The exploits we’re forced to resort to are down at the hardware level, where nothing can be done about them via software.

Obviously, when Apple releases the new iPhone, HW will change, and the jailbreaking effort will have to start from scratch.