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So TUAW's Erica Sadun announced today that the iPhone Dev team has released a Jailbreak for iPhone firmware 1.1.1.

We'll be upfront and say we won't jailbreak our iPhone this time, although if you want to, by all means do and please report back to us if you like!

While the proposition of jailbreaking 1.1.1 is tempting, there are a number of factors keeping us from doing so.

The first is that the method for doing the jailbreak is an exploit. Jailbreak uses an buffer overflow in MobileSafari’s TIFF handling code that can be exploited to execute code with root privileges. Because this is a security vulnerability, we're almost positive this will be plugged by Apple's next iPhone firmware update and then once again the cat and mouse game of jailbreaking the iPhone will commence once more.

The second is the fact that the current firmware update bricked various iPhones and we'd rather be safe than sorry. Many of the iPhones affected were bricked because they were unlocked but as far as we can tell, no one got a bricked phone from a jailbreak... but then again why take a chance?

The third reason: there aren't any third party apps I can't live without right now. Some of them are close to being really cool but most are nothing more than alpha versions or ideas. Right before the 1.1.1 update, my iPhone had to constantly be rebooted because summerboard kept crashing it (or maybe it was some other third party application). After the update, no crashes!

That said, feel free to jailbreak your iPhone. Just be careful out there!