Well in Apples attempt to keep iphones from being able to be jailbreak they have made some changes. They said any phones shipped after last week will not beable to be broken. So I'm wondering if that includes ipods? I purchased a ipod last week so I may or may not have hit the deadline

Apple Moves To Block Jailbreaking In New iPhones

For the past seven months, jailbreaking (opening an iPhone to applications not signed by Apple for installation) has relied on an exploit dubbed “24kPwn”. We’ll skip the technical voodoo for the sake of not putting you straight to sleep, but here’s the important bit: in the latest batch of iPhone 3GS units to hit the shelves, the exploit has been fixed. Unless a new exploit is discovered (and, with each patch, this is becoming less and less likely), any iPhone 3GS to ship after last week will not be jailbreakable.

If you want the full technical rundown of the exploit, you can find it here. In its simplest form: as with all computers, the iPhone requires something called a “Bootrom” to startup. During the startup process, one stretch of code in the Bootrom fails to ensure that the content being loaded is within a certain size limit. By throwing more instructions at that chunk of code than it’s intended to handle, exploiters are able to make the iPhone do dang near whatever they want; in this case, the jailbreaking process.

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