Geohot, a well known hacker behind several jailbreaks of the iPhone, today released 'towelroot' to root the Samsung Galaxy S5 and other Android devices.
Geohot has posted a limera1n update which states that it was 6 months in the making and will be "released today to get chronicdev to do the right thing"
Geohot has filed his opposition to Sony's motion for a Temporary Restraining Order, Preliminary Injunction, and Order of Impoundment that was brought against him because of the PS3 jailbreak.
Geohot, the famed jailbreak hacker, has demonstrated his skills once again winning a $150,000 bounty from Google for exposing a persistent code execution vulnerability in ChromeOS.