The story of Geohot is well known and his achievements in the iPhone hacking world are well documented...
- He created the first Hardware unlock
- Founder of iPhone wiki
- Published the first iPhone hardware unlock for bootloader 4.6
- Found the iBoot Environment Variable Overflow exploit.
- Released purplera1n
- Released purplesn0w
- Independently found the usb_control_msg(0x21, 2) Exploit.
- Released blackra1n
- Released blacksn0w
Earlier this year he announced that he was quitting the scene due to constant pestering and criticism from fans and iPhone JBers who said robbed him of the joy of his work. His rumored work Limera1n never released.
Now, a day after Chronic Dev Team and Comex announce the release of Greenpois0n, Geohot wants back in. He has announced his own bootrom exploit, which he wants included in Greenpois0n, no doubt delaying it's release... What will Chronic Dev Team do? Will Geohot release his own JB simultaneously?
Why waste an exploit (which will be patched by apple) on an already exploited and jailbroken firmware?
Will this allow 3GS users who dont have blobs saved to jailbreak?
Why the sudden change of heart?
Its an interesting time in the JB scene...
- He created the first Hardware unlock
- Founder of iPhone wiki
- Published the first iPhone hardware unlock for bootloader 4.6
- Found the iBoot Environment Variable Overflow exploit.
- Released purplera1n
- Released purplesn0w
- Independently found the usb_control_msg(0x21, 2) Exploit.
- Released blackra1n
- Released blacksn0w
Earlier this year he announced that he was quitting the scene due to constant pestering and criticism from fans and iPhone JBers who said robbed him of the joy of his work. His rumored work Limera1n never released.
Now, a day after Chronic Dev Team and Comex announce the release of Greenpois0n, Geohot wants back in. He has announced his own bootrom exploit, which he wants included in Greenpois0n, no doubt delaying it's release... What will Chronic Dev Team do? Will Geohot release his own JB simultaneously?
Why waste an exploit (which will be patched by apple) on an already exploited and jailbroken firmware?
Will this allow 3GS users who dont have blobs saved to jailbreak?
Why the sudden change of heart?
Its an interesting time in the JB scene...
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