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OH (original hacker, yo!) George Hotz has posted the RC2 version of his iPhone 3GS jailbreak tool, purplera1n. Along with other improvements, the new version supports Vista, Windows 7, and supports 64-bit.

If any of the above interests you, and you’re a responsible adult who understands the risks involved, hit the link below and check it out. Jarrrr!

[On the iPhone]

Next up for George Hotz aka Geohot: Tower Triangulation. Tower triangulation is where you’re able to determine a rough position by comparing the various signal strengths of surrounding cellular towers.

“I believe the towers are public record and you can use an AT command to get signal strengh.”

It’s not as accurate as GPS, by any means, but I’d rhetorically kill for a function on Maps.app where I could search for gas “close to here,” for example. Also next up for Geohot: college at RIT.