iPhone Hacker rejects money - demands only free jailbreak andunlock...

GeoHot Refuses the $10,000
http://iphonejtag.blogspot.com/2009/...-campaign.html

Posted: 02 Nov 2009 06:54 AM PST

Yesterday, GeoHot posted on his blog

that he will not be accepting the $10,000 that was offered to him by
Jody Sanders

if he were to find an unlock for the 05.11.07 baseband. Not only that
but he has a few words for the people who do sell the unlock. Below is
what he has to say.

As you already know, GeoHot has found an unlock for the 05.11.07
baseband. blacksn0w is scheduled to be released November 4th.

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 *guys 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