The drama that is currently surrounding the SHAtter exploit continues. Last week, a Dutch developer threatened to leak the code last week and even though the threat was thought to have subsided, someone apparently did go ahead and leak SHAtter this past Wednesday. This led to a Twitter fight between Chronic Dev Team’s p0sixninja and iPhone Dev Team’s MuscleNerd, whom p0sixninja had accused of being responsible for the leak. MuscleNerd denies this and according to p0sixninja, SHAtter has been burned.

The SHAtter exploit was originally developed by the Chronic Dev team hacker, pod2g. A weakness in the S5L8930 bootrom of A4-based devices (the iPhone 4, iPad, Apple TV 2G, iPod Touch 4G). It was originally intended for the 10.10.10 (October 10, 2010) release of GreenPois0n before GeoHot came out of nowhere with the Limera1n jailbreak for all iOS devices. SHAtter was being held in reserve for a future jailbreak to conserve exploits in the ongoing cat-and-mouse game with Apple.

At this point, we know for sure that for unknown reasons, the code was potentially released by an unknown party this past Wednesday. It isn’t clear at this time if this was the genuine SHAtter or a fake designed o throw Apple off the scent, as people who claim to have the leaked version are reporting trouble getting it to compile. However, Apple will be able to figure out pretty quickly if it is genuine or not. Meanwhile in a serious argument on Twitter, p0sixninja accused MuscleNerd of the iPhone Dev Team of being responsible for leaking the exploit. MuscleNerd rejected the accusation, explaining that it would make no sense for him to release it since he would need it to be able to jailbreak the iPhone 5 in order to unlock it. MuscleNerd again pointed out that 15 to 20 others were in the room when pod2g showed his SHAtter code for the first time, so the pool of suspects is quite large.

If SHAtter was really released, it’s not all catastrophic, as p0sixninja say another “untethered bootrom exploit” is supposedly on the way. However, that still doesn’t change the fact that we might have all lost a valuable tool due to some personal drama among devs, a sad statement for the jailbreaking community.

This doesn’t change anything with the iOS 4.2.1 untethered jailbreak which is said to be released. We’ll have the news as well as how-to guides for it out as soon as possible so stay tuned by following us on Twitter and/or subscribing to our RSS feed.

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