A mere few hours ago a hacker named planetbeing released a 1-click jailbreak for the iPod touch under Windows, the Jailbreak is based on Niacin’s TIFF exploit and his own guide but without relying on SSH.

Below is a direct guide written by planetbeing, clarified in some instances by me.

touchFree: iPod touch 1-click jailbreak Guide

http://zoo.cs.yale.edu/~yw226/ipod/touchfree5.zip
Local Mirror: http://tragicallynull.com/backend/uploads/2007/10/touchfree5.zip

Note that this version does not depend on SSH, but rather on iPod reboots to trigger certain scripted actions. This should eliminate the “Connection timed out” problems people with bad wireless connections are having.

NOTE THAT .NET FRAMEWORK 2.0 IS REQUIRED FOR THIS APPLICATION

1. Download and extract all of the files in this zip archive.

2. Copy iTunesMobileDevice.dll from C:\Program Files\Common Files\Apple\Mobile Device Support\bin to the same folder as touchFree.exe (The folder you just extracted).

3. Restore your iPod to a fresh 1.1.1 state (recommended but optional)
3.1 To restore: Hold both the Hold/Reset and Home button on your iPod touch until it resets and displays the Apple logo, then release jthe hold button (still holding the home button) until you see a connect to iTunes graphic, this will put the iPod into restore mode.
3.2 Connect the iPod to your computer (if not already). iTunes will tell you that you must restore your iPod, click OK.
3.3 Once your iPod is restored iTunes will attempt to sync, slide to cancel on your iPod and proceed with the following steps.

4. Load http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com in Safari on the iPod. Safari should exit/crash.

5. Close iTunes and terminate the process iTunesHelper.exe and iPodService.exe from the Task Manager (ctrl+alt+delete)

6. Run touchFree.exe (make doubly sure iTunes is closed, iTunes MUST NOT start during the jailbreak)

7. When prompted to reboot, hold the Hold/Reset switch until slide to power off appears, then slide to power off. Once off, hold the Hold/Reset button until the iPod turns back on. After the springboard (the UI of the iPod) appears on the iPod, push enter in the command window to continue.
(The application cannot detect when the iPod has been successfully booted, so you need to cue it by
pushing enter when asked to)

8. You will be asked to reboot twice at some point. This means turning the iPod off, turning it on,
turning it off again, and then turning it back on before pushing enter to continue.

9. You will be asked to reboot a few more times, do so normally as above.

10. After your final iPod reboot, you should end up with an iPod with Installer.app and Trip1Pogostick installed, and SSH, SFTP enabled.

- Username to SSH/SFTP is root, password is alpine

Before panicking:
- Confirm that you have .NET Framework 2.0 installed
- Confirm that you have indeed visited http://jailbreak.toc2rta.com on your iPod and Safari crashed. A surprising number of people don’t follow the instructions.
Help can be found at the MacRumors forum as well as the #iTouch chat on irc.osx86.hu

When you’re done you should have a fully jailbroken iPod touch with an Installer.app (allows you install 3rd party apps right from your iPod), SSH and SFTP, the same state as if you had followed this guide. Again, thanks to planetbeing and Niacin for their excellent work on getting this cracked.

Added 10:48PM:
Here are some additional safety tips courtesy of the iTouch Dev Wiki.

Final Steps for Safety

It is a very good idea to change the default password from “alpine” to something else. This prevents people who happen to see your iPod touch on a wireless network from logging into it and doing nasty things. To do this:

1. Install “Community Sources”, “BSD Subsystem” and “Term-vt100″ packages from Installer.app.
2. Launch Term-vt100.
3. At the # prompt, type “passwd” (without the quotes) and press return.
4. Enter your new password and confirm it.
5. DON’T LOSE YOUR NEW PASSWORD! :) If you do, in order to log into your touch from SSH or SFTP you will have to do a restore and start this process all over again.