With Apple allegedly gearing up for battle with the iPhone Dev Team in the incoming iPhone 1.2.0 firmware, the other side keeps refining and updating their iPhone firmware unlocking and hacking tool, Pwnage. According to the usual suspects, the new version pictured in this screenshot will be hitting your computers soon via automatic update. [Pwnage Page and iPhone Dev Team in Gizmodo]

COMMENT: Looks like we’re on our way to seeing this mod and the iPhone Linux distro spawn the ability to run an iPhone virtual image! This may have an interesting crossover when Google’s Android phone is released, as it appears traditional firmware boundaries have a serious challenge with vendors using common reference platforms so often!

iPhone Dev Team demos “Pwnage”