Zibri fires back: praises and criticises the DevTeam and GeoHot
Posted July 24th, 2008 by GenghisPhlip
We’ve tried to keep you abreast with all of the drama between the iPhone devteam, George Hotz and Zibri lately. We have seen numerous (virtual) shots fired between this group of talented developers with the last one fired by devteam member Pumpkinpat. At the time of Pumpkin’s volley we were astounded by the silence from Zibri.
It appears that Pumpkin may have found a nerve with his rant because yesterday Zibri decided to fire back. In Zibri’s latest message he cannot help but praise the work of both the devteam and GeoHot but he also has some pointed criticism and appears to feel that his role has been minimized by the devteam. He did say that he is not even close to a new ZiPhone so this may be the last interesting thing that we hear from him.
The following was copied and pasted directly from the ZiPhone.org site and I have not edited it at all from it’s original wording or format (of course we still wonder why Zibri insists of centering everything but I guess that is something another specialist will have to figure out):
wonder why I am the one accused of stealing
and then NOBODY gives me the credit for what I have done.
The only 2 things I did in the iPhone scene
were to DUMP THE 837 KEY and booting from an unsigned ramdisk.
(nobody even understood what it was when
I posted it on my blog).
Now the so called “dev team” released their tool
and I see no mention of that.
George Hotz wrote a code based on dev team tool
to “execute unsigned code at dfu level”…
Look at the start of the code:
const unsigned char key837[]={0×18,0×84,0×58,0xA6,0xD1,0×50,0×34,0xDF,0xE3,0×86,0xF2,0×3B,0×61,0xD4,0×37,0×74};
That is the key I dumped.
Without it NO TOOL could ever be possible.
That’s why I called it a “major breakthru” at that time.
That key also made it possible to decrypt the ramdisk and
create a custom one.
Now if you remember I have always credited people
(george hotz for his unlock based on gray’s work and
many members of iphone-elite that now are calling
themselves “dev team”.
Now I won’t say anyone stole anything.
But these are the FACTS.
Dev team did an impressive team work this time
and even if I don’t personally like the tool I see
no other way to do things on 2.0.
(If I’ll see one I’ll tell you) 
The same people accusing me
of “stealing” didn’t EVER credit me for what
I’ve done.
And I repeat for who wasn’t
reading at that time:
No ZiPhone (iLiberty/iPlus) could
ever be existed without the ramdisk
exploit I found and
NO “pwns” without the 837 key.
Zibri.
I kind of feel sorry for the guy. Having to defend himself like that. I’d probably just sat to he’ll with it and get on with my life. Oh well, to each his own.
I will admit that I would not even be on this site with this passion for jailbreak had I not come across ZiPhone. At the time all of the other jailbreak were in my opinion too intrusive (read too technical for my little brain), ZiPhone helped bring jailbreak to the masses and for that I am greatful to Zibri.
Remember, it’s never fun being the odd man out.
Easy there Moniker 9. Zibri’s crappy break bricked my first iPhone. It took me a while to save up enough to get another one (which was real fun to explain to my wife by the way) and I will never trust another app/program that his hands have touched. You wanted Fame Zibri? You got it!