Building on the work of the iPhone Dev team and in particular the hacker Nightwatch, "Tomo.M" has compiled a SOCKS (SOCKetS) proxy server for the iPhone, called "srelay". What does that mean? It means that you can share your iPhone's EDGE connection with your computer. Beginning with the steps to add custom ringtones, you then install and run the server on the phone.
After that, you just set up an ad-hoc (direct computer-to-computer) WiFi connection between the iPhone and your computer, and you're surfing. Check the video at the end of this post to see how easy it is.
The opening up of the UNIX layer of the iPhone means that we're going to see all kinds of hacks like this. It is possible that anything that can run in the Terminal on Mac OS X can just be ported across to the iPhone.
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