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  Looks like Geohot’s famous rap against Sony couldn’t really fire up the hacker. Sony and Geohot have now announced that they’ve reached a settlement in the lawsuit. The intrinsic details of the lawsuit remain under wraps but Hotz has agreed to a permanent injunction. Hotz had posted security system of the console online and [...]

  Sony has served a restraining order to George Hotz aka Geohot and team responsible to show the PS3 jailbreak, fail0verflow to take down all circumvention tools be taken offline. Engadget says the restraining order is a temporary relief for Sony and a lawsuit could be in the offing as well. The current order claims [...]

  George Hotz aka GeoHot has released a new jailbreak tool that jailbreaks all the latest Apple devices running iOS 4.0 and 4.1. Limera1n is a bootrom level untethered exploit that can be used to jailbreak iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 3G, iPad, iPhone 4, iPod Touch 4G and “technically” Apple TV 2G. It’s in beta [...]

  It’s a bit of joy and disappointment for iPhone 4 users seeking jailbreak. Good news is that Geohot has managed to jailbreak the device, which you can see in the photographic evidence above but the bad news is that he probably won’t release it. “As far as a release goes, it probably won’t happen [...]

  Geohot promised to work on a custom firmware of v3.21 and here we have the first video proof of v3.21 running Other OS. Geohot hasn’t committed to any release date but confirms that installing this custom firmware is as easy as installing a legit firmware. All a user needs to do is restore the [...]

  PlayStation 3’s upcoming firmware update on April 1 will take away the Linux OS support from original PS3 owners. This obviously, doesn’t bode well with the owners and especially like Geohot who had found some success in hacking PS3. Since Sony will disable the Other OS support with a software update, Geohot reckons it [...]

  George Hotz aka Geohot has released a short video demonstrating an untethered jailbreak solution for devices like iPhone 3GS, iPod touch 2G/3G that currently use tethered jailbreaks. Although a good news for iPod/iPhone users, he says that the solution could also work with iPad which is yet to reach consumers or retail shelves. He [...]

  GeoHot known for his work in the iPhone community is off late, taking interest in Sony’s PS3 console. Last week, he tasted his first success by hacking the console and now he has gone ahead by releasing the PS3 exploit, “in the interest of openness”. Hackers can get the file quickly from here that [...]

  George Hotz aka Geohot is a famous guy in the Apple fraternity, thanks to his iPod/iPhone jailbreak and unlocking solutions but it looks like his popularity will expand amongst the PS3 users too. In a post on his PS3 dedicated blog, he claims to have fully hacked PS3 that gives him read/write access to [...]

  Can’t wait for the iPhone Dev team’s jailbreak? Well, here’s blackra1n from Geohot that jailbreaks the latest iPhone OS 3.1.2 giving you the freedom to install 3rd party apps on the new firmware. Its available for Windows right now with Mac version slated to be released soon. One important thing to note here is [...]

  Oh iPhone 3GS unlockers, you really are spoilt for choices now. If you thought the iPhone Dev team were Gods in this scene, GeoHot too has come to the party to attain the same tag with his Purplesn0w unlock tool. Even though it’s a soft unlock, GeoHot claims it as good as a true [...]

  UPDATE 2: Now Mac version as well as RC2a version for Windows is available. Go to the link below. UPDATE: GeoHot updated the Purplera1n jailbreak with support of Windows Vista, Windows 7 and 64-bit support. The RC2 version also improves payload injection. We have got the first iPhone 3GS jailbreaking tool dubbed as purplera1n. [...]