Code that exploits two iPhone flaws to allow people to jailbreak their devices could, ironically, force security-conscious users to use the vulnerabilities to jailbreak their own iPhones and apply a third-party patch.
Wednesday, an iPhone hacker known as Comex updated a site dedicated to jailbreaking iPhones with code that uses two previously unknown vulnerabilities to gain root access to users' devices and jailbreak them, allowing non-App store code to run on Apple's platform. By visiting the site, users who want to jailbreak their phones can install the custom operating system on iPhones, iPads and the iPod Touch in less than 20 seconds, security firm Websense writes in a blog post.

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