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Geohot Implies his IPT3 is Untethered

ViViDboarder said:
I have not used any of his products before anyway.
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If your phone unlocked, you've benefited from things he's discovered whether you used purplera1n or PwnageTool. Geohot found the exploit that's used in yellowsn0w and ultrasn0w, wrote blacksn0w, and developed the method used to neuter the 4.6 version of the bootloader on the iPhone 2G. His work was also instrumental in developing the unlock for the original 2G. I, too, tend to lean toward Dev-Team tools; but I have to give him his props.
 
Maybe someone can enlighten me a little bit here. But since I'm not too informed about the specifics of the hacks, what is the big deal with having an untethered hack as opposed to what is currently available? What are the advantages?
 
The guy is immensely talented - no one will deny that. But after following him on Twitter, it's obvious that he is also incredibly arrogant and immature. He's just as antagonistic towards the people demanding things from him as they are. As others have stated, the DevTeam handles this in a much more mature manner. Honestly, I wish the guy would just charge for the jailbreaks starting with the 4G - $10 or $20 per download would make it worth his while to keep developing.
 
Thank you for those links, that explains a lot. So just to make sure I understood what I read correctly, are you telling me that, for the people with a tethered jailbreak, if they restart their iPhones, they will have to be tethered to a computer in order for it to boot up? And if they are not, they can never get passed the apple logo screen?
 
djuarez03 said:
Thank you for those links, that explains a lot. So just to make sure I understood what I read correctly, are you telling me that, for the people with a tethered jailbreak, if they restart their iPhones, they will have to be tethered to a computer in order for it to boot up? And if they are not, they can never get passed the apple logo screen?
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If their phone restarts for any reason, it will be stuck at the Apple logo until they connect to a computer and run blackra1n again.
 
Wow, that really does suck, I completely understand now. I never realized how fortunate I was to have scored a 3GS that doesn't require a tethered jailbreak. Glad I got it early.
 
thelatinist said:
If your phone unlocked, you've benefited from things he's discovered whether you used purplera1n or PwnageTool. Geohot found the exploit that's used in yellowsn0w and ultrasn0w, wrote blacksn0w, and developed the method used to neuter the 4.6 version of the bootloader on the iPhone 2G. His work was also instrumental in developing the unlock for the original 2G. I, too, tend to lean toward Dev-Team tools; but I have to give him his props.
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I never unlocked. Still with AT&T here. Unfortunately. Anyway, I was referring to his tools and the fact that I wait for Dev to release things before I use them. :D
 
globalist said:
I LMAO'ed at this tweet of his:

"my iPhone just kernel paniced on the road...good thing I don't have a tethered jailbreak"

http://twitter.com/geohot/status/6878805981

:D
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I remember that one, but he did go on to explain later that he's using an iPhone 3GS with one of the older iBoots. Just another example of him being just as antagonistic towards his followers as they are towards him. He knew exactly what people would infer from that tweet.
 
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