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I never bothered with any Jailbreaks before. I have a 3GS since 2 years back.

Visited the site with my iPhone. Pressed Install. No confirmation or anything.

Now I have a Cydia app on my phone that I can move but not delete. Was that all it took to jailbreak my phone? (It took like 10 seconds)

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You should probably change your root password at this point since the default root password is the same for all devices.

Even if I don't install OpenSSH from Cydia?

No real need if you don't: there's no additional vector added by the jailbreak to even try entering a password if you don't have sshd installed.

It seems like random packages like to install OpenSSH as a dependency though.

The first thing I tried was to change the password (iPhone 4 4.3.3) after jailbreaking but the MobileTerminal crashes upon launch. Same story after a phone restart.

Edit: Figured out the problem. Looks like the MobileTerminal in the CYdia repo doesn't work for iOS 4.0 onwards. The following is a working version from the author of the app:

http://code.google.com/p/mobileterminal/wiki/Installation

Yep, your phone is now jailbroken.

I've got a 3gs with an old tethering crack on it, and am considering upgrading to 4.3.3 to get this jailbreak. How can I be sure that this will work for me, and how do I go about tethering afterwards? Googling only seems to turn up some app that I have to buy from some other store (a cydia store?). Is it more complicated than the help.benm.at tethering hack that I used?

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