It looks like Geohot, the iPhone hacking expert who had released popular tools to jailbreak and unlock iPhone like blackra1n, blacksn0w is back.
Geohot had abandoned the jailbreaking scene in July but he seems to be back with a bang. He has discovered a new new bootrom exploit, which he is calling limera1n.
He has published a photo on the limera1n site of 4 devices displaying the limera1n logo.
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We finally have some news for users who are eagerly waiting to jailbreak their iPhone or iPod Touch on iOS 4.1.
Joshua Hill, also known as p0sixninja from the Chronic-Dev Team has just tweeted that greenpois0n, the jailbreaking tool that makes use of the SHAtter exploit will be released on October 10.
Few days back, we had reported that the iPhone Dev Team had jailbroken iOS 4.1 firmware for Apple TV. This was even before Apple had started shipping the device. Apple had released the firmware a day before customers started receiving the new Apple TV.
iPhone Dev Team have confirmed that they’ve managed to successfully jailbreak Apple TV using the PwnageTool.
Apple has released the firmware (Build 8M89) for the second generation Apple TV that it has started shipping.
Based on the name of the firmware file (AppleTV2,1_4.1_8M89_Restore.ipsw), it appears to be a version of iOS 4.1 that Apple had released few weeks back for iPhone and iPod Touch.
iPhone Dev Team have announced that they have managed to successfully jailbreak iOS 4.1 on the new iPod Touch 4G using the SHAtter exploit.
SHAtter is the new bootrom exploit discovered by pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team that allows the use of unsigned code execution. It is being used by the iPhone hacking community to create tools to jailbreak existing iDevices for life.
It looks like a fake jailbreak tool for iOS 4.x has been circulating recently, which claims to be using the SHAtter exploit.
Please do NOT download it as it is a trojan that steals passwords from computers.
SHAtter was a new exploit discovered by pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team, which allows the use of unsigned code execution that could jailbreak iDevices for life.
We have some good news for folks who want to jailbreak iOS 4.1 that was released by Apple a week back.
iH8sn0w, developer of Sn0wbreeze, which is the Windows version of the PwnageTool – popular jailbreaking tool is planning to release Sn0wbreeze 2.0 for iOS 4.1.
We had reported that the new bootrom exploit discovered by pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team allows the use of unsigned code execution, which could help in creating a tethered jailbreak called SHAtter, a jailbreak for life.
Chronic Dev team has just clarified that they haven’t announced if the jailbreak for iOS 4.1 will be a tethered or untethered jailbreak so the report claiming that it is a tethered is a speculation.
We had reported that iPhone hacker pod2g of the Chronic Dev Team had discovered a bootrom exploit that could help in jailbreaking iOS 4.1. We have more details about the exploit.
The exploit that pod2g has discovered is the first exploit of the S5L8930 chip, Apple’s A4 chip, which is used in iPhone 4, iPad and iPod Touch 4G.