iPhone updates doesnt happen OTa (over-the-air), you need to download the 100Mb+ update .ipsw file, launch iTunes, agree to the EULA, and then the process starts. I doubt your "baby cousin munching on the iPhone" situation would trigger such things, Apple is not stupid. The user end however, is open to question.

To the threadstarter, the hackers already have won. There are already working downgraders to downgrader those new iPhones with 1.1.1 in them to 1.0.2 to be jailbroken and unlocked. After that, follow what Xeda says "Dont update the phone then, apa susah?".

Why are you posting if you dont care? Or are you posting to get a reaction from the current or future iPhone owners? Furthermore, you dont have to open a new thread , this news is neither shocking or important enough to warrant this.

In any case, it's common knowledge that you run risks dabbling with customized firmwares. This fact is acknowledged and understand upon by those who know what risks they face, it is only that those who knows not a single clue about how the process works, and goes in blindly that got their iPhone bricked by this update. I'd say they brought this calamity to themselves since they dont really know what they are about to do.