iPhone Dev Team: will not be jailbreaking iOS 4.0.2

Early Yesterday, the iPhone Dev Team (the guys behind the discovery of the vast majority of iPhone jailbreak methods) announced that they will not be working on a jailbreak for iOS 4.0.2.

Why? Because with iOS 4.0.2, Apple showed that they are willing to push out updates that do nothing but patch the exploits used for jailbreaking. It is by all means reasonable, especially in this case; the browser-based (and thus easily forced on unknowing users) exploit patched in 4.0.2 could be used for all sorts of nasty things beyond jailbreaking, so Apple had plenty of reasons to drop everything and patch it up.

If the cat and mouse game escalates too quickly, especially during beta FW periods, nobody but Apple benefits.  For this reason, there will not be a 4.0.2/3.2.2 jailbreak specifically during the period where 4.0.2/3.2.2 is the latest public release.  At best, some future 4.1x FW jailbreak *may* be compatible with 4.0.2/3.2.2 (but don’t count on that).

We all hope to get it ASAP to unlock any New iPhone4 device!