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GreenPois0n Hits The Streets — With Geohot’s Exploit

Posted on 12th October 2010 by admin in , apple, green, hp, iphone, ipod touch, phone, us, usb | Tags: apple, description, dev-team, green, greenpois0n, ipad, iphone, iphone jailbreak, jailbreaking, message

Today, the Dev Team officially released GreenPois0n — two days after the anticipated 10/10/10 release was bunged up by geohot’s competing jailbreaker, limera1n. In an interesting twist of fate, the release announcement on Dev Team’s blog includes the following: “Thanks to geohot for the bootrom USB exploit. We have opted to use that instead of SHAtter for the sake of exploit presevation.” The first release of GreenPois0n is Windows-only, and iOS 4.1 only. Those with an iPhone 4 and lower-version firmware should use TinyUmbrella to preserve their basebands. Otherwise, GreenPois0n supports iPhone 3GS/4, iPod Touches 3G/4G, and iPads, with Apple TV 2G and iTouch 2G support imminent.

Today, the Dev Team officially released GreenPois0n — two days after the anticipated 10/10/10 release was bunged up by geohot’s competing jailbreaker, limera1n.

In an interesting twist of fate, the release announcement on Dev Team’s blog includes the following: “Thanks to geohot for the bootrom USB exploit. We have opted to use that instead of SHAtter for the sake of exploit presevation.”

The first release of GreenPois0n is Windows-only, and iOS 4.1 only. Those with an iPhone 4 and lower-version firmware should use TinyUmbrella to preserve their basebands. Otherwise, GreenPois0n supports iPhone 3GS/4, iPod Touches 3G/4G, and iPads, with Apple TV 2G and iTouch 2G support imminent.

Read our guide: How To: Jailbreak 4.1 Using GreenPois0n Guide

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Care For A Green Snowcone? Sn0wbreeze Upgrade Uses Limera1n Exploit

Posted on 11th October 2010 by admin in , car, green, hp, phone, us | Tags: car, green, ipad jailbreak, ipod touch jailbreak, jailbreaking, phone, unlocking, update, windows

Limera1n author geohot may be persona non grata with the Dev Team, but he’s got at least one other jailbreaker in his corner: ih8sn0w announced an upgrade to his Sn0wbreeze for Windows custom firmware tool that incorporates the same exploit as limera1n. Firmware created by Sn0wbreeze lets you then use Ultrasn0w to unlock your phone and use it on the carrier of your choice. ih8sn0w went so far as to proffer an olive branch in the ” War of the Greens ” — or merely shill his services — on Twitter: “Will be pushing out [Sn0wbreeze] a few days after PwnageTool is out.

Limera1n author geohot may be persona non grata with the Dev Team, but he’s got at least one other jailbreaker in his corner: ih8sn0w announced an upgrade to his Sn0wbreeze for Windows custom firmware tool that incorporates the same exploit as limera1n. Firmware created by Sn0wbreeze lets you then use Ultrasn0w to unlock your phone and use it on the carrier of your choice.

ih8sn0w went so far as to proffer an olive branch in the “War of the Greens” — or merely shill his services — on Twitter: “Will be pushing out [Sn0wbreeze] a few days after PwnageTool is out. @MuscleNerd can we talk?”

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Care For A Green Snowcone? Sn0wbreeze Upgrade Uses Limera1n Exploit

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Sony Ericsson XPERIA X8 and Eco-Friendly Cedar Shipping Now!

Posted on 10th October 2010 by admin in , android, car, eco-friendly, efficiency, feature, green, hp, phone, pixel, us, usa, video, x10 | Tags: bigger-screens, car, feature, green, jacket-support, larger-screen, modu jackets, modu t, usa, video, xperia x8 launch, xperia x8 specifications

Sony Ericsson has just announced two new products that will be shipping in the next days: the XPERIA X8 and eco-friendly Cedar model. The XPERIA X8 is somewhere in between the X10 mini and the X10 as far as size is concerned.

Sony Ericsson has just announced two new products that will be shipping in the next days: the XPERIA X8 and eco-friendly Cedar model. The XPERIA X8 is somewhere in between the X10 mini and the X10 as far as size is concerned. The screen on it is bigger than the one on the X10 mini, but the camera is dumbed down a bit.

This is possibly the most affordable Android phone ever and if you’re wondering about the specs, here they are:

Dimensions: 99 x 54 x 15mm
Display: 3 inch, 320 x 480 pixels
Memory: 128MB storage, 168MB RAM, microSD card slot (2GB card included)
Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE/3G, WiFi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Camera: 3.15MP, geotagging, VGA capture @30 fps
OS: Android 1.6 (2.1 coming soon)
CPU: Qualcomm MSM7227 600 MHz

Cedar is an eco-friendly handset, part of the GreenHeart family and we learn that it’s built on top of its very own OS, like the W995, Elm and Hazel models. It supports social networking features and it provides the following “green” features: high efficiency charger, phone made out of recycles plastics, e-manual to get rid of paper usage, eco-friendly apps.

Here are the hardware specs for Cedar:

Dimensions: 111 x 49 x 15.5mm
Weight: 84 grams
Display: 2.2 inches, 240 x 320 pixels
Memory: 280MB internal memory, microSD card slot (up to 16GB)
Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE/3G, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP
Camera: 2MP, geotagging, VGA 30 fps video capture

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Geohot vs the Chronic Dev-Team the Jailbreak Drama Unfolds

Posted on 10th October 2010 by admin in , fm, green, hack, hd, hp, iphone, ipod touch, phone, us | Tags: green, greenpois0n, hack, implementation, jailbreak, shot-2010-10-09

It’s on. Chronic Dev-Team’s GreenPois0n jailbreak, which was due to be released tomorrow, has been pushed back. This announcement comes after news that hacker Geohot (known for his PlayStation 3 and iPhone jailbreaks), released limera1n, which is said to jb 4.0 and 4.1 across the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G

It’s on. Chronic Dev-Team’s GreenPois0n jailbreak, which was due to be released tomorrow, has been pushed back. This announcement comes after news that hacker Geohot (known for his PlayStation 3 and iPhone jailbreaks), released limera1n, which is said to jb 4.0 and 4.1 across the iPhone 4, 3GS, iPad, iPod Touch 4G and iPod Touch 3G. The kicker?

Geohot was provided the code for SHAtter under the understanding that he would not release his tool using his limera1n exploit. Turns out, he went ahead with it anyway.

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SHAtter is now being held back as GreenPois0n is being worked on to retool their jailbreak to use Geohot’s exploit:

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This is to keep from exposing two exploits at once. However, we have read that limera1n causes problems, and isn’t quite up to par, even on devices that it’s compatible with.

The Dev-Team says, “cleaning the mess he [Geohot] made.”

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As the iPhone Dev-Team’s Muscle Nerd says, this is not the worst possible scenario, adding that “SHAtter may even be improved”:

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Still, it seems that Geohot is catching some heat:

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Still, in the end it seems that things got sorted out as Comex, who wrote some of the implementation code and shared it with Geohot, Tweeted the following:

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Currently, Geohot’s jailbreak has been reported as buggy, but he has been continually improving on it since the initial release.We wouldn’t recommend it yet, not until we know that compatibilities and bugs have been fixed. In addition, it is currently Windows-only (as of the time of this writing) with a Mac and Linux version on the way. Still, we aren’t running a tutorial yet.

What Geohot has effectively done, however, aside from releasing his jailbreak first and beating them by a day, he has forced them to hold back their release until they can retool it.

This is all sort of a testament to both approaches; Dev-team takes a more conservative approach, they find hacks and hold them to give them a longer shelf life. Geohot, on the other hand, is more along the lines of “this is what we do, we hack, so release the hacks” and the truth is that both approaches have their good sides. Dev-team’s take is more about community and long-term support for their tools.

More here:
Geohot vs the Chronic Dev-Team the Jailbreak Drama Unfolds

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Bucky Fuller’s Back-To-Front Car Gets Re-Imagined by Norman Foster [Cars]

Posted on 8th October 2010 by admin in , car, green, hd, pixel, us | Tags: apple, behind-some, buckminster fuller, bucky, bucky-fuller, car, cars, dymaxions, green, itunes, look-forward, posts-tagged, spotify us launch, streaming

Only three of these back-to-front Dymaxions were ever built , but as there’s only one remaining it was up to British architect Norman Foster (the man behind some of the most recognizable buildings in the world) to build the fourth himself. More »