iTunes 8 was just released and Apple decided to take an approach to "attempt" to prevent their devices from being hacked. I question how hard they "attempted" this; whether the iPhone/iPod Touch is hacked or not doesn't really matter in the big picture, Apple still got the money for the device.
The PwnageTool, developed by iPhone-dev team, exploits a flaw in the hardware design of the iPhone and iPod Touch that, according to the team, can't be fixed without Apple making a hardware modification.
Right now, iTunes 8 will identify the hardware hack, throw an error message within iTunes and prevent the Pwnage of the device. However, for those of you who want to hack your gear, don't you worry. The iPhone-dev team already has a patch to fix this for the iPod Touch and plan to release a patch for the iPhone.
Check out more info on the iPhone-dev blog
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