It's here! www.jailbreakme.com for iOS4

Works great.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=982432

1. Go to www.jailbreakme.com using Safari on iPhone
2. Follow simple JB steps and prompts
3. Done

If you have any issues with MMS or Facetime disappearing do the following fix and you will be good to go.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=982701

Cool...Downloading as we speak. This has to be the easiest JB yet. I have missed my SBSettings!

Why jail break? Serious question......

Jailbreaking allows you to do things like:

1. Internet Tethering (Use your iPhone as a WiFi hotspot)
2. Access to apps not available thru the iTunes App Store.
3. Unlock your iPhone and use another carrier.

To list just a few.

The links below breakdown some of the other benefits of JB your iPhone.

http://www.ismashphone.com/2010/06/why-to-jailbreak-your-iphone.html
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/reasons-to-jailbreak/

Sadly, it doesn't seem to work for iPod Touches.

You should definitely be able to, check the link below, some of the posters at link have had success breaking their iPod Touches. The JB apps mentioned are called touchFree and the other is called iJailbreak.

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=371121

Better link with latest JB method to break iPod Touch.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=982497

Better link with latest JB method to break iPod Touch.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=982497

That just references jailbreakme.com which doesn't work for me. It apparently doesn't work on iPads, either, as Leo Laporte (tech podcaster) tried his and it crashed.

What do you mean by "it doesn't work for you"? Specifics please.

Many people have reported success, the site is getting hammered with traffic right now so if you get a blank purple screen you can do a couple of other things to get around it:

1. Go to Settings>Safari> and the Clear your Cache, History and Cookies.

2. Reboot Touch and the start up Mobile Safari and go to http://jailbreakme.com/ and try JB process. It should give you a "downloading" message pretty quickly after swiping start switch.

3. If you still get the blank purple screen it's because the sites bandwidth is maxed out and you should try again later when it quiets down a bit.

I've tried rebooting the Touch, and it makes no difference. I move the slider and I get a pop up saying that its downloading and that it may take a while, then barely a second or two later I get a box saying, "Oops... File received was invalid. Quit Retry" Retrying doesn't yield any better results.

What generation is your Touch? Also what iOS version are you running? You may need to update to 4.0.1 if you haven't done so.

Make sure you do a backup in iTunes before doing any of this so you can do a restore from backup if you get jammed up or corrupted. This will also make sure your are running the latest version of iOS.

According to the info at www.jailbreakme.com this JB works for iOS 4.0.0 and 4.0.1.

Also here is an alternate URL to try, it links to the same JB download just less traffic.

www.jailbreakme.modmyi.com

Its a 2nd Gen. Touch, and running the latest iOS4 version, and the jailbreakme.modmyi.com just does a redirect to jailbreakme.com (tried all of this earlier).

And there goes the last excuse I had not to get an iPhone 4 and iPad. Fortunately (unfortunately?), I can't afford at least both, possibly either, at the moment, without dipping into savings, which I did last month too. :\

Hmmm...Methinks there are two new pieces of Apple hardware in your immediate future?

Well, given the jailbreak works like a trojan by using the fact Apple's PDF parser is less secure than Adobe's to root your phone, I'm thinking this is a reason not to get one...

It says something about Apples control freakery that people are relieved to let someone take advantage of such a security hole though...

Any other company having such a bug would be faced with demands for a quick bugfix!

The security issue exists whether you Jailbreak or not, it has nothing to do with jailbreaking or not jailbreaking and Apple is already investigating and working on a fix just like they've always done for security flaws to be patched with the next iOS update. Business as usual.

In fact there is already a JB patch out that sends you a notification if any attempts are being made to gain access to your phone via the PDF/Safari vulnerability.

^I know the security issues exists regardless - my point it the jailbreak is actually a trojan being ran on your phone via browsing.

Any other company - say Microsoft - did that and we'd have plenty of SKY IS FALLING!!! articles.

It's a pretty serious security hole, and essentially translates as "do not open PDFs until patched"

1.) Jailbreaking allows me to at least hide (if not delete) the Apple pre-installed apps that I don't want. (ex. Stocks, Weather, etc.)

2.) The root password on all iPhones/iPads/Touchs is the same: Alpine. That alone is a helluva security hole and Jailbreaking the device allows you to change it (if you know what the hell you're doing and are willing to put up with the additional hassles that this entails).

3.) I can now see this when I use my iPod, instead of a black background.

According to some "experts" if you surf using Opera Mini, you're in no danger of getting hit by this. I know that when I was trying to jailbreak my Touch, jailbreakme.com acted like I was using a PC browser to visit the site, rather than offering to jailbreak my iPod, like it did with Safari, when I hit it using Opera Mini (which automatically blocks a number of ads, BTW).

Unless the Opera Mini comes with its own PDF reader that's bunk, as the bug is in how OSX reads PDF files.

Looks like Apple is ready to roll out a fix though, which is good, jailbreaking-aside this is like a return to the days of IE6!

Opera Mini works by handing off most of the functions to a remote server, so its possible that the processing prevents the exploit from working.

Malware is malware because it does something you don't want it to. How it does so doesn't make it a trojan, it makes the hole a vulnerability. Besides, the last userland jailbreak, they patched the hole behind them. I'd be surprised if that wasn't the case here as well.

I have an iPad through my job. I have to admit it's way cooler than I thought it was gonna be. I can't see any reason to update my 3GS to a 4 or jailbreak it, but I can understand why people are jail breaking ipads since they have the old OS dragging them down.

So, the example I gave in post #20 wasn't enough? :wtfturn: How about the fact that I can now have rotating wallpaper on my Touch, and in addition to the lovely lady in post #20, I can get to see this, a few seconds later:

IOS4 let's you hide Apple apps in folders. I'm not that worried about the security hole you speak of, but that one is a valid point. I'm not going to sacrifice the smooth operation of my phone to jailbreak it for rotating wallpapers. I can change mine already, autorotation isn't important to me.

Jailbreaking doesn't take away any of the existing features of iOS4, however, and I haven't noticed any real performance issues on my 2nd Gen. Touch since I jailbroke it (if I reboot it, it takes a second or two longer than before). I'm also able to ditch the Apple pre-installed apps that I don't want like the Stocks and Apple's weather app. You can see the apps available in the Cydia store here. Some of them are duplicated by ones in the official Apple store, but a number of them are not, and some of the security apps were available before Apple enabled the same features on iOS4. Were I someone who had to be very concerned about the data on my device, I'd inclined to pay close attention to what shows up in the Cydia store since it seems to lead Apple's official app store.

I'm glad jailbreaking exists because it forces Apple's hand and makes them turn over some control they tend to just sit on. I just don't see any advantages that make it worth while for me. Not having to pay to Tether is the one thing that comes closest to selling me on jailbreaking, but it's not quite enough.

Flash, anyone?