The Chronic Dev-Team has released Greenpois0n, their utility for jailbreaking the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch on iOS 4.1.

After much controversy, the tool has been updated to use the bootrom exploit found by Geohot.

Unfortunately, only a Windows version is currently available; however, a mac version and ipt2g support are coming soon.

You can download Greenpois0n from here.

Initially, this will be a Windows-only release. This is due to some technical complications that we soon hope to correct. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Thanks to geohot for the bootrom USB exploit. We have opted to use that instead of SHAtter for the sake of exploit presevation.

This release of greenpois0n supports:
- iPhone 4
- iPhone 3G S
- iPod touch (4th Generation)
- iPod touch (3rd Generation)
- iPad

Soon there will be another release, adding things like support for:
- Apple TV (2nd Generation)
- iPod touch (2nd Generation)

As you may know Geohot came out of no where yesterday and released his Limera1n jailbreak. Because of this the Chronic Dev Team decided to wait and not release their jailbreak. Why you ask?

The reason for not releasing today is because chronic dev team is going to use Geohot’s Limera1n exploit in Greenpois0n instead of their own SHAtter exploit.

This is a very smart decision as if they were to release their own tool with the SHAtter exploit implemented then that would be a waste of an exploit. SHAtter will be saved and used on a later firmware or even better yet a next gen idevice.

Check out the official Greenpois0n page: http://greenpois0n.com/

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Geohot Releases Limera1n, Jailbreak Most iOS Devices

Geohot has released Limera1n, his tool to jailbreak all i-devices on the latest Apple iOS 4.1 firmware. There has been a lot of drama with the release as Geohot stole comex’s untethered exploit and used it on his own tool. The dev team warns that the jailbreak may be unstable and could cause problems as the tool uses a beta version of comex’s untethered exploit. Use at your own risk, UNLOCKERS STAY AWAY or you could possibly lose your iphone unlock forever. Wait until the dev team releases their jailbreak tool.

Download Limera1n HERE

Limera1n Details:
● Jailbreak iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G
● 3GS new bootrom is broken, fix pending
● 4.0-4.1 and beyond+++

There is too much to keep up with as twitter is blowing up with vulgar statements and comments between jailbreak teams. To stay up to date with all thats going on you can check out the following twitters:

• Pod2G http://twitter.com/#!/pod2g
• Chronic Dev http://twitter.com/#!/chronicdevteam
• PosixNinja http://twitter.com/#!/p0sixninja
• Comex http://twitter.com/#!/comex
• Chpwn http://twitter.com/#!/chpwn

GeoHot, the little genius behind the original iPhone unlock, Blackra1n jailbreak and BlackSn0w unlock says GoodBye to the jailbreak Scene. After teasing us with an iPhone 4 jailbreak (later called fake) GeoHot not only closed his blog to public but also deleted his Twitter account.

What did encourage his decision to leave the Jailbreak community forever? Well, GeoHot has been complaining for a while about people harassing him about jailbreaks and release dates. In his last post on his blog (not accessible now) he shared a screenshot of jailbroken iPhone 4 and said he has no plans to release it. In return he met with hate and negative response from the public. Then he updated his blog post with this:

Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things (I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning.

Later he tweeted this:

I was just having fun but some people had to take this all way too seriously. it’s just a phone, and it isn’t much fun anymore.

My bio isn’t “iPhone hacker” it was just something i did occasionally when i was bored. seriously, i think many of you care way more than me.

It was a cool ride, and i’ve learned a lot about a lot. perhaps one of these days i’ll do a more formal goodbye.

GeoHot had also been flamed by many for his ego but like everyone of us he has the freedom to do whatever he wants and we should all respect that.

While GeoHot didn’t clearly say goodbye to the jailbreak Scene, he seems to be retiring from the scene, atleast for now. Something tells me his “formal goodbye” might be in the form of one final jailbreak/unlock tool, before he calls it a quit forever or may be he will return after some time.

Thanks George for all your hard work and surprising us with your talent. You’ll be missed.

Now the question arising in minds of many would be: what about the exploit he has? Well, the same exploit is shared by p0sixninja. With GeoHot gone, we still have great hackers like MuscleNerd, Planetbeing (the iPhone dev-Team), iH8Sn0w, Comex and p0sixninja who are actively working on developing jailbreak and unlock for the iPhone community.

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Geohot has shut down the iPhone blog he used to announce and release jailbreaks over the past few years.

Visiting the site now says, “This blog is open to invited readers only”.

This comes after his recent announcement of achieving a jailbreak for the iPhone 4 without plans for public release was met with a lot of negativity.

His last update to the blog read:

Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things(I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning.

Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake

Update:
Geohot has also now shut down his Twitter account which has 113,761 followers. Visiting the account now says, “This person has protected their tweets” and no past tweets are viewable to the public.

Here are his last messages:

was just having fun but some people had to take this all way too seriously. it’s just a phone, and it isn’t much fun anymore.

it was a cool ride, and i’ve learned a lot about a lot. perhaps one of these days i’ll do a more formal goodbye.

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