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With it’s relatively small list of tweaks, mostly security related, the latest iPhone OS update has proven to be about as exciting as watching paint dry. Many speculate that the new update was released exclusively to frustrate the jailbreak community. While this may be the case, the frustration did not last long thanks to the work of the iPhone Dev-Team. The team of iPhone whizzes announced this morning the release of their latest version of PwnageTool (v3.1.5 for Mac OS X) that allows jailbreakers to the update their devices to iPhone OS 3.1.3 while preserving the device’s ultrasn0w unlock and jailbroken state.
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Today, iPhone Dev-Team member MuscleNerd announced that the team’s latest jailbreak software redsn0w 0.9 is officially out of beta and is now available for both Mac and Windows.

“redsn0w 0.9beta3 results were good, may as well take it out of beta: http://wikee.iphwn.org/howto:rs9(new: ipt3G and IPCC tethering)”

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Find yourself pressing no every time that one of your apps wants to use your current location? Ever want to fake your device into believing that it is actually somewhere else in the world? Location Spoofer on the Cydia Store allows you to do just that!

Location Spoofer is an easy to use app that allows you to get around all of the location specific locks that some apps put in place to prevent you from viewing content in certain regions, as well as creating a fun utility to change your location to anywhere in the world with the tap of the screen! It does this all while retaining the ability to retrieve your true location, and without modifying any system files.

There are many reasons that one like to spoof their device’s location, such as:

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Antivirus firm Sophos details the first known iPhone worm in the wild, which surfaced in Australia late last week. The worm affects users who have jailbroken their iPhones and installed SSH without then changing the default password and is currently a harmless exploit that simply changes the user’s iPhone background to an image of singer Rick Astley, but could be used for much more malicious purposes.

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Once again the Dev Team has pulled through with some very important updates to both the Pwnage Tool and QuickPwn. Their latest comes in the form of PwnageTool 2.0.3.1. You can download it here.

Also, QuickPwn Release Candidate 3 has been released. Supposed to be fixed in this release is the issue for 64-bit Windows users and the new version is supposed to work for all Windows versions. Download QuickPwn RC3 here.

If you’ve been having a problem with jailbreaking, these releases should address your issues and as always, as much as we love the dev team we cannot guarantee that they will work properly. Please understand that you will use these programs at your own risk.