In a previous post, we reported that iPhone hacker Niacin found a TIFF exploit for both the iPhone and iPod Touch. He has recently announced that they have released the code to perform the hack granting users full root level access even without upgrading to v1.0.2.

Before reading on, be advised that this hack could potentially brick your unit, so run it at your own risk.

To run this exploit, you should access http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com from your iPhone or iPod Touch's browser. This will crash the browser but will give you full read/write access to the system. To edit or move some of the files, you will need to have IPHUC (iPHoneUtilityClient) installed as well as some knowledge on using both the put file and get file commands.

Since this is the first release of the hack, it is still in its early phases and may be a bit intimidating for less tech savvy iPhone and iPod Touch users. Niacin has given word that a tutorial will be posted soon as well as the full details on how the TIFF exploit works.