Jailbreak Your iPhone with a Swipe.
This is probably nothing but old news to the harder core of tech heads out there, but for us newer experimenters the thought of jailbreaking an iPhone is nothing short of frightening.
Voiding warranties or bricking your phone are a little too much to bear thinking about. Enter Comex and their/his/her/its wonderfully easy jailbreaking website.
As explained on TWiT 259 – all that needs to be done is to plug www.jailbreakme.com into your iPhones Safari browser and “Slide to Jailbreak”. This makes it no harder to hack your phone than it is to unlock it. Brian Brushwood of the highly recommended NSFW and Scam School jailbroke his brand spanking new iPhone 4 on air.
After jailbreaking, your iPhone will have access to the wonders of the Cydia app store along with an offer to fix the security vulnerability that has allowed this easy jailbreak to occur in the first place (apparently a glitch relating to the lack of love between the Safari browser and Adobe PDFs).
I will have to say this is all a big “apparently” because we’ve not done the jailbreak ourselves.
Enjoy in the knowledge that GITweekly neither recommends or bears any responsibility for your iPhone’s welfare. If you smell smoke you’ve been warned. Just read up on forums to get the true inside line.
