This breaking news post captures the excitement and anticipation surrounding the planned release of GreenPois0n, a highly anticipated jailbreak tool for iOS 4.1 devices. Patrick Bisch reports on Chronic Dev Team member P0sixninja's announcement that GreenPois0n would debut on October 10th, 2010, at the memorable time of 10:10:10 AM GMT - a clever marketing touch that generated important buzz in the jailbreaking community.
The post provides crucial technical details about the jailbreak's features and limitations. Most notably, GreenPois0n would only work on 4th generation Apple devices including the iPhone 4, iPad, and iPod Touch 4, leaving older device owners waiting for alternative solutions. Bisch explains the technical significance of the SHAtter bootrom exploit that powered GreenPois0n, emphasizing that this low-level vulnerability couldn't be patched by Apple through software updates - only new hardware could "fix" the exploit.
However, the story takes a dramatic turn with the update revealing that GreenPois0n's release was cancelled due to the surprise launch of Limera1n by Geohot just one day before GreenPois0n's scheduled debut. This created important controversy in the jailbreaking community, as Geohot had used an exploit shared by Comex from the iPhone Dev Team, and the Chronic Dev Team decided not to burn their own exploit unnecessarily since Limera1n already accomplished the same goal.
This post documents a fascinating moment of drama and politics within the jailbreaking community that occurred 15 years ago. The rivalry between different hacker groups, the strategic decisions about when to release exploits, and the technical cat-and-mouse game with Apple all came to a head in this incident. Looking back, this represents the golden age of iOS jailbreaking when these tools and the personalities behind them commanded important attention from the tech community. The technical concepts discussed here - bootrom exploits, untethered jailbreaks, and hardware-level vulnerabilities - were latest topics that eventually led to the much more secure iOS ecosystem we know today.
This summary was created by Dave Rogers. The original post was written by Patrick Bisch and published on October 7, 2010.
If you'd like to view the original post, you can find it here.