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Today, I woke up to a nice little surprise thanks to Mr. George Hotz, or more widely known as @geohot. Geohot has graciously blessed the whole iPhone jailbreaking community with his latest method for liberating our devices, blackra1n. 

So, what is blackra1n? blackra1n is a 30 second ALL device 3.1.2 jailbreak ... blackra1n doesn't hacktivate.

Now, I've been eager to upgrade my iPhone 3GS for a while now, it has been happily jailbroken at 3.0.1 for a while now using redsn0w, and even recently I posted about the dev teams latest pwn tool. However, after reading the massive number of comments on their blog with people having issues, I decided to play it safe and just wait a bit longer. I am so glad I did.

The jailbreak using blackra1n was amazingly simple and super fast, probably even faster than the purplera1n jailbreak from a few months ago. On top of that, using aptbackup (a convenient little cydia app backup tool) I was able to upgrade my firmware, jailbreak using blackra1n, and restore all of my cydia apps and settings without so much as a hitch. I am now running my iPhone 3GS with 3.1.2 firmware, on ATT, with functional MMS and all of my apps and settings, both cydia and the hacked ipa's from appulo.us all back to how it was. Joy.

If you're looking for blackra1n, simply visit www.blackra1n.com, (click the windows icon to download) and dont forget to drop a few bucks over to geohot via donate link to help support his efforts and keep our fancy little iphones in our control and not Apple's ;)