Geohot releases untethered jailbreak for all iOS devices

Written by Andre Yoskowitz @ 10 Oct 2010 1:31 User comments (9)

George "Geohot" Hotz has released the first RC of an untethered jailbreak for all iOS devices, dubbing the jailbreak Limera1n.

The jailbreak works on the iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3/4G, iPad, and iPhone 4.

For the time being the jailbreak works only on Windows machines.

The jailbreak is based on low-level bootrom exploits that are different than the current exploits used by SHAtter and in the newly released "greenpois0n."

Geohot uses the same exploit found by c0mex, the hacker behind the popular one-click Spirit jailbreak.

The jailbreak should be available at http://limera1n.com tomorrow.

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110.10.2010 01:47

geestar20

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Geohot releases untethered jailbreak for all iOS devices

So be it. When it rains it pours.

210.10.2010 08:20

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No support for iPod 2G and iPhone 3G yet.

310.10.2010 14:25

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Oh the same guy who got the OtherOs feature removed from the ps3 and never release the custom firmware he promised.

410.10.2010 17:45

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Originally posted by biglo30:
Oh the same guy who got the OtherOs feature removed from the ps3 and never release the custom firmware he promised.

He's an utter edited by ddp, yes.
There was supposed to be a jailbreak that jailbreaks all iDevices but for no reason at all, this guy jumps in the last minute and releases limera1n which apparently is very buggy and it doesn't even support the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G yet.
The other jailbreak, greenpois0n got delayed thanks to this arrogant edited by ddp.

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510.10.2010 17:55

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Originally posted by kikzm33z:

Originally posted by biglo30:
Oh the same guy who got the OtherOs feature removed from the ps3 and never release the custom firmware he promised.
He's an utter edited by ddp, yes.
There was supposed to be a jailbreak that jailbreaks all iDevices but for no reason at all, this guy jumps in the last minute and releases limera1n which apparently is very buggy and it doesn't even support the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G yet.
The other jailbreak, greenpois0n got delayed thanks to this arrogant edited by ddp.

http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cf..._of_greenpois0n

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610.10.2010 18:34

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Originally posted by DVDBack23:

Originally posted by kikzm33z:

Originally posted by biglo30:
Oh the same guy who got the OtherOs feature removed from the ps3 and never release the custom firmware he promised.
He's an utter edited by ddp, yes.
There was supposed to be a jailbreak that jailbreaks all iDevices but for no reason at all, this guy jumps in the last minute and releases limera1n which apparently is very buggy and it doesn't even support the iPod Touch 2G and iPhone 3G yet.
The other jailbreak, greenpois0n got delayed thanks to this arrogant edited by ddp.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cf..._of_greenpois0n

Yeah, geohot is such a dumb edited by ddp, there was no reason to release their exploit method.

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710.10.2010 19:40

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I love all these people slamming him. i bet half you jerks can barely program a remote. Have you contributed anything to any of these exploits.... wait what is that? i think i heard crickets chirping. not that i claim to no the first thing about kernel hacking or advanced programing but were lucky any of these people release this stuff to us. people like you are why they leave the scene. ungrateful edited by ddp.

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815.10.2010 16:10

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bugger off svn. actually some of us can and do. Geohot left alot of people hanging for no reason. anyways, his exploit was exploited from comex. who by the way actually put out the best and only one click windows solution to jailbreak the iphone earlier this year with their spirit jailbreak. i wouldnt be surprized if Geohot ripped it off of them!

915.10.2010 18:51

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Originally posted by svnstrslm:
I love all these people slamming him. i bet half you jerks can barely program a remote. Have you contributed anything to any of these exploits.... wait what is that? i think i heard crickets chirping. not that i claim to no the first thing about kernel hacking or advanced programing but were lucky any of these people release this stuff to us. people like you are why they leave the scene. ungrateful edited by ddp.

Lol.
The untethered exploit is by Comex, not Geohotz.
And releasing Limera1n in this time period was an edited by ddp-ish move. What he basically did was make the whole jailbreaking scene a lot more inconvenient.

You obviously don't have a clue what you're talking about.

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