Geohot Asks Us to Find Red Balloons In Exchange for Untethered Jailbreak
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Posted December 5, 2009 at 9:27am by iClarified
Geohot has requested assistance in winning the DARPA Network Challenge. In exchange he will make the community an untethered jailbreak.
The DARPA Network Challenge is a competition that explores the role the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems.
The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of 10 moored, 8-foot, red, weather balloons at 10 fixed locations in the continental United States. The balloons will be in readily accessible locations and visible from nearby roads.
"10AM EST today marks the start of a US wide scavenger hunt, for 10 red balloons http://bit.ly/7chum5 #dudeitsaballoon"
"The more people that know, the more of a chance the 10 $1000 prizes will be claimed http://bit.ly/7chum5 #dudeitsaballoon"
"And the more of a chance you get an untethered jailbreak! http://bit.ly/7chum5 #dudeitsaballoon"
"So I need your help to do two things, 1, find big red balloons, and 2, RT and trend this!!! http://bit.ly/7chum5 #dudeitsaballoon"
His reward implies that he already has an exploit and hasn't bothered to release it. I seriously doubt, however, that he has found an exploit and is instead play on the massive desire of the consumer to better himself. I have read several articles and done my own research both inside the company and outside (yes, I work for the big red fruit company) and the phones may no longer be jailbreakabke. Even the dev-team can't break it.
Don't let this kid play to your desires.
Its not really cheating when that is what the whole point of the challenge is.
It is meant to involve things like social network sites in order to find the locations it says so in the post.
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