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GeoHot Speaks Out on iPhone Pay Sites

I have been an avid user of jailbreaks and unlocks for the iPhone for a few years now. So much so that I've often been called on to assist in the implementation of such tools for friends and their buddies.

Please know that I've never claimed to have developed any of this myself, but I do try to contribute if and when I can. I HAVE NEVER SOLD JAILBREAKING OR UNLOCKING SOFTWARE OF ANY KIND. I do however perform jailbreaking and unlocking services using tools that are freely available too all... for a small fee. I sell my time and expertise.

In a few days a release called blacksn0w will be released to the public. (blackra1n.com) This is free software and will unlock the 5.11.07 baseband. As always... please do not upgrade to the 3.1.2 OS before then. If you have any questions please feel free to contact me.

Below you will find a quote from GeoHot's very own iPhone site. Please read as it offers some very valuable information.

Thank-you to all the REAL iPhone developers, hackers and crackers out there.

Sunday, November 1, 2009
An Information Campaign
I have an unlock for 05.11.07. I will be releasing on 11/04/09, for $0.00

First off, Jody Sanders, I am declining your $10,000. Why? Because you, and the rest of the iPhone unlock sites out there are scum. You make money selling freeware; that's not cool, and I am in no way going to legitimize it.
Seriously, the people who really lose here are the customers. These sites are full of blatant lies, claiming to have unlocks for 05.11.07 People buy them, and are told the unlock is in development, and the release date is unknown. Imagine you bought a cup of coffee and were told it's in development? Recently, many of these sites sent out e-mails saying they made major breakthroughs and the unlock will be ready 11/04/09. Coincidence that that's the release date of blacksn0w?
I'm not going to post all these scam sites here, as I don't want to give them the pagerank boost. Rather I'll give you a whitelist, two people make unlocks, me and the dev team. Every iPhone unlock site you see out there is selling our stuff, repackaged in some form or another. Same goes for jailbreaks, although ih8sn0w and chronicdev are legit. Notice what all the legit ones have in common? They are free.
Now despite rumors of the ferocity of my legal team, they actually are pretty poor lawyers. And the scum who run these websites are the type who get off on legal battles. So we have to fight them in another way, and I'm asking for everyones help on this. Our weapon is information. Get the truth out, that all iPhone unlocks and jailbreaks are free, and if you are buying something, you aren't getting anything a simple google search couldn't get you, and are probably funding someones crack habit.
This is the first time I have tried to make something simple for the end users, and it enrages me to see people selling it. Let's shut all these assholes down, and tell the iPhone owning world all they need is at blackra1n.com, including blacksn0w instructions on it's release date, 11/04/09(yes, will support hacktivation). You do your part, and I'll do mine making things as simple, reliable, and straightforward as possible.

You have 4 days.
Posted by George Hotz at 2:13 AM