Reports of an expected release of an untethered Jailbreak for iPhone 5 have been spreading like wildfire in the tech world and the video of the jailbreak became a viral hit. However, the unknown self-proclaimed iOS hacker by the name "Dream JB" managed to fool hundreds of iOS fans waiting for a genuine jailbreak for the latest version of iOS.
"The first untethered iOS 6 jailbreak will be exclusively available at www.dramjb.com on 12/12/2012," the hacker proclaimed his intentions of releasing it to the public use. However, he then announced on Twitter that a proof-of-concept video will be uploaded that night itself (Wednesday, Dec. 12) to prove his iOS untethered jailbreak was indeed real. "Proof will be posted both here and on my Twitter account on Wednesday. As far as the video that will be uploaded, it will be a single-take shot of the entire jailbreak process, including a restart and usage of the device to prove it is untethered. It will be uploaded as raw video straight from my camera to YouTube. So no edits in any form," the hacker said in a post.
As promised, he uploaded a video on Wednesday showing an iPhone 5 being connected to a computer via USB, accessing a website through Safari which then ran an application named "Dream" on his computer. After running a few codes on the screen, the iPhone 5 shows the Cydia app on the home screen, suggesting that the jailbreak was successful.
The video was an instant hit on YouTube and received more than 500 comments on YouTube in less than 15 minutes of its announcement on Twitter. Many viewers were seemingly convinced of the authenticity of the video.
The hacker suddenly announced that the public download of the jailbreak will begin on the same night; however, just before the release time, he surprisingly announced that the video wasn't true. "Jailbreakers, what you see may not always be true. Please follow the dev team members for true and meaningful updates in the JB world. Let this be a lesson to all current and future jailbreak fakers," Dream JB tweeted.
A post on the Dream Jailbreak website reads like this:
DreamJB was intended as a social experiment. In the matter of a mere week, over 20,000 people followed @DreamJailbreak on twitter.
This website had over 300,000 unique viewers. People believed in a "jailbreak" that originally provided no proof at all.
There are services out there that charge for jailbreaks that are intended to be free. Imagine what could have happened should this have gone for sale?
The provided proof tonight was intended as a final boost to the viewers before this message was released.
Let this be a lesson to the public. PLEASE be careful when it comes to jailbreak solutions that are advertised outside of the prominent and accepted dev teams. Do some research and follow them on Twitter now.
Dismiss any claims made by anybody, unless it has been confirmed from the dev team members.
Should a real jailbreak ever surface, they'll be the first to give it the OK.
This experiment is exactly as it was named. Simply just a dream.
Cheers.
The Twitter account and the YouTube video appeared to be deleted at the time of this reporting. However, many prominent hackers had voiced their scepticism on the authenticity of jailbreak and said the video was edited and fake. Check out this video posted by Jeff Benjamin of iDownloadBlog, which "outlines just a handful of obvious discrepancies" that Dream JB "failed to address before composing his video."
