It looks like GeoHot (also known as George Hotz) is at it again This time around, in his recent blog post titled ‘Meet the Family ‘, he talks about the upcoming release of a jailbreak tool that will work for ALL iPhone and iPod Touches on 3.1 firmware. Here ‘s what he had to say:
no affiliation to greenpois0n. and it ‘s in some ways the complete opposite of purplera1n. but still 10 seconds. and may work for every version of software *ever*, based on the prettiness of the exploit
GeoHot is one of the original iPhone hackers and unlockers, and the creator of the recent purplera1n jailbreak method for firmware 3.0 (but not 3.0.1 or after). If the above is accurate and he does release a tool that can jailbreak the 3.1 firmware on any iPhone / Touch model, I will be one of the many who will be damn near ecstatic to see it.
I ‘ve mentioned before that I have been kicking myself (harder and harder) for updating to firmware 3.1 and sacrificing my ability to jailbreak.
I was briefly hopeful last Friday when the Dev Team brought out a new version of their Pwnage Tool app “ but after quite a bit of confusion and conflicting opinions on whether this could jailbreak a 3GS already on 3.1, I realized that the new tools would not work for me because I was already on 3.1 and had not managed to store any of the required files from my iPhone to Saurik ‘s server when it was jailbroken on the 3.0.1 firmware.
There has also been news over the last couple of days of an upcoming Windows adaptation of Pwnage Tool (not from the Dev Team), called sn0wbreeze “ that is supposed to be released next week.
It ‘s looking like it ‘s going to be a very interesting couple of weeks for iPhone jailbreakers “ or at least those who are running 3.1 on a 3GS and wanting to get back into jailbreak territory. I know I am very keen to see what GeoHot brings out, and presumably some new tools from the Dev Team as well following on from that.
How about you? Did any of you make use of the new Pwnage Tool version released last Friday? Or are you still waiting on a new solution as well?
Via: iPhone in Canada
*** UPDATE: Looks like things are not going swimmingly now, to put it mildly. This is an excerpt from the latest posting at GeoHot ‘s blog:
Sorry program has been cancelled due to chronic posting the exploit it uses. Now Apple will fix it double time, and I’m not about to race Apple. You will all have to wait for greenpois0n from them. I hope it doesn’t come after 3.2 is released.
Here ‘s hoping he and the other group speak further and work something out.
*** UPDATE 2: A quick change of heart. This from GeoHot ‘s Twitter stream:
Phew! Roll on 2 days 🙂
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