The iPod Touch 2G is now another member of the “pwned for life” family.  It has a fatal flaw in its bootrom that means we will always be able to pwn these devices no matter what firmware updates come along.  This is the full, untethered jailbreak, something that iPod Touch 2G users have not had before today. 

Those of you who hang out on IRC or were able to read between the lines in the various blogs, forums, wikis and twitters may realize that we — and that’s a collective, cross-team “we” :) — had been hoping to hold onto this full ipt2g jailbreak until the next version of the iPhone came out.  That didn’t happen, but maybe it’s too late for Apple to fix the bootrom in the next iPhone.

The raw patch to the firmware that transforms the “tethered” jb into an untethered one was released here but it’s not yet packaged up into the PwnageTool or QuickPwn flows.  But other threads there are pulling together tutorials and other tips for those of you anxious to try this out now, before PwnageTool and QuickPwn are updated. 

Anyway, to all those iPod Touch 2G users out there who waited so patiently through all the various incarnations of the jailbreak for Apple’s latest device — welcome to the family!  The jailbreak cat&mouse game will continue in the summer with the next iPhone.  And the carrier unlock cat&mouse game continues as ever. :)