jailbreak the iphone 3GS OS 4.01

if you made the terrible, terrible mistake of upgrading your iphone 3GS to OS 4.0 before a jailbreak was released, the day of salvation has arrived. an ingenious 17 year old has released the first OTA (over the air) jailbreak for the iphone which will finally give freedom back to the poor souls on OS 4.0. backup your iphone and then open safari and navigate to http://jailbreakme.com. note that it took me three tries before the download started so don't give up if it doesn't appear to work the first time. a progress bar and status message will inform you when the download is complete and then once the jailbreak is complete and cydia is installed. if you have not already done so, allow cydia to store your ECID