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Geohot To Release Untethered iOS 4.2.1 Jailbreak?

Last week we reported Internet celebrity hacker Geohot might call his next jailbreak tool / utility rubyra1n, basing on some speculation from the domain he registered and the fact that (PS3 hacking aside) he’s been quiet in regards to the iOS jailbreak scene since the release of iOS 4.1 and limera1n.

As noted by Covering Web, it looks like the Dev Team itself knows something about Geohot’s effort to bring a proper untethered jailbreak to iOS 4.2.1. Currently, owners of jailbroken devices running the latest OS from Apple are forced to boot through redsn0w, an app for Mac and Windows that loads the iOS firmware file and allows a device to boot in “tethered” mode. This is not really convenient, and an untethered tool might simplify things a lot by letting users install Cydia and boot their iPhones and iPads normally.

A recent tweet from Musclenerd says:

I hear geohot does have an untether actually! Though not for all devices.

Take this with the proverbial grain of salt, but we wouldn’t be surprised to see Geohot coming out from his silence and release a brand new jailbreak tool for the latest version of iOS. The guy plays his own game, as seen with limera1n before.

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