This announcement is not about jailbreaking the new 3G iPhone hardware. A huge attack against the first generation iPhones was discovered in March which completely compromised the secure bootloader and made it possible to install any unsigned firmware image you want.
All they have probably done here is hacked the 2.0 firmware to include the installer app and then loaded it on first generation hardware with the bootloader vulnerability.
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This announcement is not about jailbreaking the new 3G iPhone hardware. A huge attack against the first generation iPhones was discovered in March which completely compromised the secure bootloader and made it possible to install any unsigned firmware image you want.
http://wikee.iphwn.org/news:pwnage
All they have probably done here is hacked the 2.0 firmware to include the installer app and then loaded it on first generation hardware with the bootloader vulnerability.
Agreed.
But ziPhone on Thursday (maybe it's still Thursday where you are) announced they've jailbroken firmware 2.0. See http://status.ziphone.org/
except that ziPhone does nasty things like giving every unlocked/jailbroken iphone the same MAC address.
d'oh - but it's easy to use :-)