(Watch my video "How to hack your iphone using Spirit) Otherwise, just be careful to not upgrade your device when a new software patch is released. If you want go through this step, there's a tutorial here. Jailbreak users who don't want to be affected by the soon-to-arrive Apple software update, can go through a procedure to back up something called "SHSH blobs" which allow you to downgrade and re-jailbreak your device if you were to accidentally upgrade. Apple tends to quickly patch these holes, once exposed, through software updates. That means that it exploits a security weakness in the mobile operating system. Note that this particular jailbreak is what's known by the hacker community as a "userland" jailbreak. This is also an "untethered" jailbreak, meaning you don't have to plug in your device to your computer every time your reboot it, an issue that plagued similar exploits used in the recent past For those who aren't afraid to void their warranty (don't worry, you can always restore to factory settings with no one the wiser), the new jailbreaking tool called "Spirit" brings that level of freedom to all Apple mobile devices running firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3 or 3.2.
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