If you have been on the web this past weekend, you might already know this. We weren’t (in an awesome cottage by Lake Michigan with no connectivity!) and we just learned about all the drama last night. So here is the gist of it for those who missed it too.
First off, there was all the excitement on Friday when @p0sixninja announced that greeenpois0n jailbreak was to be released at 10-10-10 10:10 GMT.
If you remember blackra1n iPhone jailbreak for iOS 3.1.2, you’d remember the iPhone hacker George Hotz (@geohot) who said he was not going to work on anymore jailbreaks. Now, as soon as the chronic dev team announced an ETA for greenpois0n jailbreak, GeoHot decided to work on an exploit he has been holding off for 6 months and releases a new iOS 4.1 jailbreak that covers almost all iOS devices including iPhone 4 and Apple iPad dubbed limera1n – a day ahead of the greenpois0n ETA.
Obviously @p0sixninja and the rest of the jailbreak community isn’t happy about the timing of limera1n.
Luckily, p0sixninja chose option C and has decided to delay greenp0ison. It doesn’t make sense to let Apple know of 2 exploit holes at once and create the possibility that they will both be closed in the next gen devices.
Greenpois0n is delayed. And they are working on releasing an improved greenpois0n with GeoHot’s exploit included in it. Of course, this will be tested a lot before release.
Limera1n iOS 4.1 Jailbreak
GeoHot’s Limera1n jailbreak for iOS 4.1 can jailbreak iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4G, iPod Touch 3G and AppleTV 2G on iOS 4.0-4.1. Like SHAtter exploit, limera1n is unpatchable by Apple and will jailbreak an iOS device for life. It is also untethered as it employs the exploit found by @comex.
Limera1n is Windows only at the moment with Mac version coming soon. Limera1n is beta software considering Geohot spent 1 day to develop it and has already released 4 beta versions.
Here is what Dev Team had to say about Limera1n jailbreak
After a few very dramatic days in the jailbreak community, geohot has come out of nowhere to release limera1n. It’s a bootrom-level jailbreak that works on the iPhone3GS, iPhone4, iPod touch 3G, iPod touch 4G, the iPad, and (technically) the AppleTV 2G.
DO NOT USE LIMERA1N IF YOU USE THE ULTRASN0W CARRIER UNLOCK — wait for PwnageTool to incorporate the limera1n exploit. This is so that you can avoid updating your baseband and losing the unlock (possibly forever).
Limera1n uses a different exploit than SHAtter, and in fact covers more devices. Although some may question geohot’s dramatic and competitive style, he obviously does have considerable skill pulling this together in just over a day (although he’s had the underlying exploit for months). Credit also goes to @comex, who provides the untethered aspect of limera1n via another one of his growing list of kernel hacks.
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If you are on iPhone 4, it looks like there is a way to keep your current baseband and still jailbreak using limera1n. This will allow you to use ultrasn0w to unlock your iPhone 4.
We are yet to try this jailbreak and will post our experiences here as soon as we get a chance to.
Sorry for the long winded post but there was a lot of drama that happened this weekend and I wanted to give you a highlight of where things stand in the jailbreak community as of this morning.
Happy jailbreaking, if you are on windows! For those on Mac, we’ll have to wait just a little bit more.
