Geohot Jailbreaks iPhone 4, But Not Interested to Release Jailbreak
Geohot was not in the limelight for some time until he gave his famous speech at Nuit Du Hack conference in Paris, France. Now, he is again in the news as he has recently posted that he has jailbroken iPhone 4. But unfortunately, he is not looking interested in releasing it. In fact, he sounded a bit too depressed to me. Here is Geohot’s original blog post:
Got one of these in the mail today and figured I’d give it a shot.
As far as a release goes, it probably won’t happen from me. limera1n is little more than a raindrop on a website; it was never mentioned by me previous to this post. pwned4life is a complete invention of some blogger in a basement somewhere. When I said pwned for life, I was referring to the original iPhone, 3G, and Touch; which of course are, by the aptly named PwnageTool.
Again, please don’t ask for release dates. Every person that does makes me want to release a little bit less.
Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things(I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning.
The real reason behind no release isn’t technical. It’s just that it will never stop, after blackra1n, people demand unlock, after blacksn0w, people demand untethered. I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking were difficult, it attracted a much higher caliber crowd.
Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake
This post from Geohot gives me an indication that he is very upset from Pwned4Life incident, and now do not want to work on jailbreaks and unlocks. Well George, if you are thinking like that, then please don’t do that, that would be a huge loss to jailbreak community.
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