A while ago, Softpedia reported that hacker extraordinaire George Hotz, also known as geohot around the web, had registered a domain name for
Limera1n. Featuring its own place on the Internet,
complete with the raindrop icon, Limera1n is expected to come out as the next-generation jailbreak tool, either for iPhone OS 3.1.3 on new Apple devices, iPhone OS 4, or the iPad’s own version of the OS (3.2).
Looking too see if there were any more updates related to Geo’s Limera1n, Softpedia came across a screenshot featuring what appeared to be Hotz’ response to the hype generated by the appearance of his Limera1n.com site. The screenshot is hosted at
iHackintosh, a source that also predicts that Limera1n is set to launch as “an untethered jailbreak for iPhone 3GS OS 3.1.3 (possible support of OS 4), iPhone 3G and iPad OS 3.2.” We took the liberty of grabbing the image to share it with our readers (available above), but blurred out the part where Hotz uses some rough language (sorry, rules).
Some members of the iPhone install base apparently even asked the hacker for pre-release copies of what was believed to be the successor of Blackra1n (geohot’s original jailbreak tool for iPhone OS 3.0 and future revisions). Check out this transcript of his latest post:
I realize most of you aren’t [expletive]. I have some cool stuff planned, but not the time to make it how I envision it now. Keep an eye on spirit
about 13 hours ago via mobile web (emphasis ours)
Softpedia note Notice how George loves to put on an Apple corporate-style face by not throwing in any clues that could potentially give away the identity of his Limera1n… thing (whatever it turns out to be). Yet, he entices his followers by suggesting something big is coming, thus keeping the hype going. George, of course, has no connection to Apple other than the Apple devices he owns. Or at least this is the generally accepted public conception – a cat-and-mouse game between Cupertino and the hacker community.
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