Several readers reported having spotted the first iPod Touch in shops yesterday evening, as stocks might be limited do not hesitate to share shop locations in the dedicated topic of our forum (here). While first units were hitting shelves in Europe, http://toc2rta.com claims to have used the same tiff exploit to expose the root partition via the symlink hack. They could apply the exploit on an iPhone firmware1.0.2 and 1.1.1 and on iPod Touch 1.1.1. A similar strategy was used to hack the PSP. If this vulnerability is currently used to allow installing third party applications on the iPod Touch, it could also be used for other more nasty purpose, and for sure Apple will soon release a fix.

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