I make you break. I make again. You break again. And so on and so forth. That’s been happening between Apple and iPhone hackers (They would rather prefer to be called the iPhone dev team).

Apple’s latest software update reinforces the holy tradition of free-spirited combativeness. And this time Apple takes a different route, trying to uproot the issue at its very roots. The 10.5.6 software update for the Leopard operating system has something in its code that comes as what the Information Week describes as “a covert strike against iPhone jailbreakers”

According to the Ars Tecnica report:

The [10.5.6] update prevents your Mac from recognizing your iPhone or iPod in DFU mode. DFU mode refers to the device firmware update mode that has been used for communicating directly with your unit at a high level. iTunes uses DFU mode for firmware restores among other things.

However, no longer is not the phrase one would feel safe to use with reference to those guys who have ported Linux to the iPhone. They have already hacked onto the Apple fortress twice this year, resulting in two subsequent firmware updates by Apple.

The latest code will soon be hacked into. May be, by the time this post goes live! That apart, it is really mouthwatering to see where this fascinating Apple vs Pineapple war is tit-a-tat is going towards. After all Steve Jobs himself admitted that “It’s a constant cat and mouse game,”

Till then, as an user, would you go for the update? Ars Technica’s Erica Sudan advices against it:

…you may want to delay your 10.5.6 upgrade until the dev team can be sure and test the USB work-around.