It’s always impressive to see how quickly the iPhone and iPod Touch communities break through new OS releases and manage to run non-Apple approved code. In this case, they’ve already managed to break this weekend’s OS 3.0.1 release.

To be a touch more accurate about the whole thing, there doesn’t appear to have been too much work involved in cracking iPhone OS 3.0.1; those applications that previously were used to crack devices running OS 3.0 (namely “redsn0w”) will still work on OS 3.0.1. If nothing else this might be seen as evidence that Apple’s latest update was released far more with actual security in mind, rather than just the security of the closed platform.

Given the recent revelation that the iPhone OS 3.0 was vulnerable to attacks through its SMS function that could hijack the phone and then use the hijacked device to run pretty much the same operation, it’s welcome news that Apple seems to be focusing on keeping the iPhone OS safe from other users for now.

That said, it’s very likely that we’ll see the iPhone OS patched again relatively soon to keep up with the jailbreaking crowd.

You can read more about the iPhone OS 3.0.1 update, how redsn0w deals with it and just how to crack an iPhone or iPod Touch at iPhone Hacks, here.