There is no known fix at this time. The only option is to tethered jailbreak or to not jailbreak until the Dev team figures out a solution.

You people dont seem to realise that Apple doesnt lock the Iphone to harass you, they do it so that the other million (plus) who like to push the power on their Iphones and they boot up flawlessly without locking up or having seizures.

They aren't out to get you, they are out to protect the other millions of people who use their product. Your desire to Jailbreak your iphone isnt on their top level of care, their phone's future is. if 500 people dont buy the new Iphone because they cant break it, they wont care. But if 5000000 people dont by the new iphone because of bugs and issues. Also keep in mind that when you break your Jailbroken iphone and take it to apple for replacement or repairs, they have to deal with supporting something that you broke or caused a corruption in from jailbreaking.

Its like you buying a car, changing out the stereo which once had the steering wheel controls, trading the car in for a new one, then when i buy the car, the controls on the steering wheel dont work.. and now the dealership is expected to deal with the issue of a changed out stereo at their cost, and me losing my personal time to get this fixed... because of your modifications.

Apple isnt being mean to you, they are protecting their own collective butts, as well as their customers.

And as for the person who moaned about Apple making money, their a business, thats what their goal is. While some of the features of Jailbreak might be good it still allows people to steal applications they should have brought.

Why not set up a petition to Apple to implement some of the features you require instead of complaining in a blog about it. Who knows, if enough people listen maybe Apple will do something about it.

as for fixing exploits thats a good sign, the question really is how much longer do jailbreaker devs have before all the holes are patched might be a few years but sooner or later apple will streamline the code that it wont have exploits into it, to add jailbreak then what?

but by then maybe then 3rd parties will know how to write 3rd party os'es and load onto hardware. who knows.

sorry but your use of the word monopoly completely discredits anything you have to say. People just live to throw that word around.

how exactly does this make apple "evil"? Personally I think patching security holes is a good thing. Am I wring?

If fixing these bugs becomes a threat the the iphone's market dominance you can be sure things will change with the iPhone to make it more open. Until then I don't have a problem with apple fixing issues with their software. The dev team and the jailbreak community will stay ahead of apple for a while anyway.

The next 18 months will see serious competition for the iPhone from sources that provide more open options. It will be interesting to see if the competitors can make a product that is nearly as compelling a piece of hardware as the iPhone (nobody really does right now). If they can, I think many will abandon the iPhone.

Right now iPhone is the best smart phone going, despite the artificial limits placed on users by Big Brother Steve (irony is so ironic). But that could change.

If you buy a lawn mower but want to use it as an outboard motor no one is saying you can't, but it also may not work.

If you don't like the closed ecosystem that Apple uses then avoid Apple products at all costs because it will continue to frustrate you.

Apple is not patching the iPhone to keep malware and malicious developers out. They are not following some duty to provide security. They are trying to keep their monopoly on selling applications on the iPhone and the 30% of the gross that entails. Zero developers would sell exclusively through the App Store if other channels were available.

"Apple isn’t here to facilitate unauthorized use of their devices."

Unauthorized use of a device? I have a contractual obligation with ATT. They sold me a device at a subsidized rate and in return I agreed to use their service at a rate certain for a time certain. I also agreed to their terms of service. I uphold my end of that agreement by not unlocking the phone and not tethering or running my phone as a WiFi hotspot.

However, I own the hardware, not Apple, and they have no business telling me what apps I can run on the phone and where I must purchase them. I am the one who authorizes what software runs on my hardware, not the OEM. Its MY device, not theirs.

A question I have posed before: How long would users accept the same restrictions on MacBook Pros that Apple puts on iPhones?

Apple isn't here to facilitate unauthorized use of their devices. They have no obligation to the jailbreak community as the vast majority of people don't jailbreak. And why is this such a surprise? Did no one else see this coming?

Have some faith in the Dev Team, those guys will find something.

I love my 5 icon dock and many other jailbreak apps too, but I'm all for Apple patching bugs and security flaws.

And that the app store and iTunes are there to make people buy their Hardware? I don't know you tell me.

Rithy Cambodia

this obsessive jail break blocking tactic from apple is far too aggressive for my liking. I wonder what the driving force is when every other platform allows similar actions to take place, surely not just job's obsessive compulsiveness to make everything ship shape. ...

oh come on. that's a straw man argument and you know it.

if apple really changed the bootrom to "prevent malware", then wouldn't that leave the majority of iphones, 3G and 1st gen vulnerable to exploits? if this was really the case, where is the blog post calling attention to this critical security flaw in existing iphones, ripe for exploitation?

even if it was a serious potential exploit, that in no way means that apple could not allow for jailbreaking in a safe, responsible, consistent manner - instead of this cat and mouse garbage.

If something happens to my iphone3GS in terms of losing unlockability/jailbreaking, it will be onto better pastures for me. I've helped promote the iPhone on the jailbreak basis as well.

You know what, I shouldn't have to. Apple is ripping us all a new one with their tactics. If they don't change, this will end badly for them with the 4gen iphone. Mark my words. Android is looking very attractive and by next summer will be that much better.

They get a lot of (well deserved) criticism when they don't patch known attack vectors in a timely fashion. This one has been around how long now?

i know that this is a blog and that it derives some of its energy and traffic in no small measure from "drama and controversy", but some of us just want a device that'll do what we want it to with as little drama as possible.

of course the jailbreak developers who make this possible to the best of their abilities deserve to be celebrated, but to celebrate the clearly broken situation itself seems perverse.

Please leave jailbreak in peace. As far as I know, my desire to block ads, run Pandora in the background, and have 5 icons on my dock has cost you and your telco partner zero bucks. Your failure to allow me to side load apps I want from sources you don't ordain may cost you your next iPhone sale to me though.