“Slow and steady wins the race” Always one of those indecently annoying phrases that makes you want to kick the person saying it, but it looks like some of the hard work the iPod Touch hackers are undertaking is beginning to pay off. Latest in untwisting Apple’s hard work is touch root read access, achieved by hacker Niacin and the rest of the iPhone Dev team.

iPod Touch - read access achieved

In fact, the exploit not only raises the skirts of the iPod Touch but the iPhone too; at the moment it’s purely read-only, rather than read/write, but it’s another step closer to introducing the third-party apps that could turn Apple’s PMP into a WiFi PDA.

The hack uses a so-called TIFF exploit, which relies on loading an image in Safari to trigger some custom code. They’re yet to release the code.

[via TUAW]