Planetbeing, a core member of the iPhone-Dev Team has posted a reply on reddit discussion regarding the current status of an iOS 6 untethered jailbreak, stating that is is "not dead" and that he currently has one on his own iPhone 5 running iOS 6.0.2.

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Planetbeing, who was more involved in jailbreaking several years ago when the original iPhone was released back in 2007, made the post after a discussion arose about fellow iOS hacker pod2g's tweet promoting the hashtag #weWantAnOpeniOS. Twitter users misunderstood his tweet and believed that the race for the iOS 6 jailbreak was dead, and that jailbreaking had ceased to exist. However, Planetbeing also commented on behalf of this:

"Anyway, where there are 4+ bugs (that it took to get this to work), there's gotta be one or two more so while jailbreaking is getting harder, reports of its death are highly exaggerated."

In addition to both revealing he had a working iOS 6 untether, he gave reasons as to why it hadn't already been released. He first stated what we already knew about since the iPhone 4's limera1n exploit, which was used to jailbreak iOS 4.1 instead of Chronic-Dev Team's SHAtter exploit; "releasing it would burn an exploit we want to save for ourselves so we can always get in to look at new firmware and help JB in the future". A second reason he gave was in regards to an upcoming update, iOS 6.1; "help JB in the future, 2. iOS 6.1 is coming very soon and will likely break a small part of it anyway, there's no point in sacrificing the many bugs it won't break".

What this means is while we may not have a jailbreak for iPhone 5 just yet, and no untether for iOS 6, there will be one in good time and it may also mean we'll have an untethered jailbreak for future versions of iOS 6. And most importantly, we must not lose faith in the Dev teams