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The release of this jailbreak is specifically designed to pressure the Chronic Dev team into implementing the exploits in limera1n into greenpois0n. Now that geohot has released limera1n, [[SHAtter]] can't be released without major negative backlash from other hackers, as this would burn a bootrom exploit.
The timing impact of this jailbreak release will have major negative consequences on everyone, especially since this jailbreak IS patchable. If this jailbreak is released, the holes used in it might be needlessly burned, seeing as how [[greenpois0n]] is expected to be released the day before limera1n.
 
* Limera1n is probably only being released to pressure chronic dev into using the exploit in greenpois0n. [http://twitter.com/p0sixninja/status/26795401167] Geohot used a similar tactic to pressure the iPhone Dev Team into releasing a 2.0 jailbreak.
 
* The [[Chronic Dev (team)|Chronic Dev Team]] are working extremely hard to implement [[User:geohot|geohot's]] limera1n exploit before the [[greenpois0n]] release date, though it will probably not use that exploit because timing is tight.
 
   
 
== External Links ==
 
== External Links ==

Revision as of 01:06, 10 October 2010

Release

On the 9th of October 2010 Limera1n was released, delaying the release of SHAtter. Limera1n is now in Beta 2. It only supports Windows at the moment and a large number of devices have issues.

Download

RC1 BETA2 for Windows from the official website. HTTP

Background Information

Limera1n is a jailbreak by geohot. It is untethered on all supported devices, which include the following (but aren't necessarily limited to):

It has been demonstrated multiple times by geohot, using blog posts on his now private blog. Geohot showed off a high-res picture of Cydia on an iPhone 4. Image He displayed an untethered jailbreak that met MuscleNerd's requirements for a good video on the iPod touch 3G: YouTube Video In addition, he demonstrated Cydia, blackra1n, and a verbose boot on an iPad (before Spirit was released): Image

Technical Information

  • This does not use SHAtter.
  • This uses a bootrom exploit (different than the greenpois0n one) to achieve the tethered jailbreak and unsigned code execution
  • This uses a userland exploit to provide untetheredness, which geohot stole from comex.
  • Chronic Dev knows about this exploit and has confirmed its legitimacy

Controversy

The release of this jailbreak is specifically designed to pressure the Chronic Dev team into implementing the exploits in limera1n into greenpois0n. Now that geohot has released limera1n, SHAtter can't be released without major negative backlash from other hackers, as this would burn a bootrom exploit.

External Links