Geohot, the first iPhone jailbraker, will release his iPhone 2.0 jailbreak soon - that is, if iPhone Dev Team, with an apology to Zibri. Apparently, iPhone Dev has come into some difficulty in getting PwnageTool 2.0 ready for a public release.
In giving his warning to the Team, geohot explains the difference between iPhone unlock and iPhone jailbreak:
The possiblity of unlocking, which is very distinct from jailbreaking, is based entirely on the baseband bootloader. Apple doesn’t appear to upgrade the bootloader on phones in the field, probably for fear of breaks. So any old iPhones out there today, regardless of version, can be unlocked.
The iPhone 3G uses a different bootloader, which I believe there aren’t any known exploits in yet. So no unlock.
George Hotz goes on to elaborate and specify why he thinks iPhone Dev should have the pwnage tool ready by now:
There is a known exploit in iBoot, on both the old and 3G iPhones. The “the specific date/time is not firm yet” pwnage tool will leverage it to jailbreak all 2.0 software iPhones, 3G and otherwise. Dev team, that date better be soon or I might just have to release yiPhone. The iBoot exploit is yours, use it. You wouldn’t want a repeat of ZiPhone now…
The last sentence is very interesting indeed.
Here is iPhone Dev Team’s response.
July 13th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
first post
and I would jsut like to day that geohot is a stealing turd. He stole the exploit from the devteam and is now trying to make them release it before it is completely safe and ready
July 13th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Geohot is clearly a douche bag, perhaps a brilliant douchebag, but a douche bag none-the-less. I will be waiting the dev team release, not rush,,,please, I want my iphone to work, period.
July 13th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I will stay at iPhone 1.0.2. Much more stable since it is an original.
July 16th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Why would you want a jailbreaking tool that just bricks your iPhone? Geohot is a dickhead. Thank god he hasn’t stuffed it up for all of us.
July 27th, 2008 at 2:53 am
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