Someone with the Twitter handle , whose profile only says he is from Montreal, posted on Saturday what he claimed was an iPad 2 jailbreak, called A5-2LiB02, along with a YouTube video purporting to show it in action. Both the tweetstream and his show early skepticism and then a mounting fury of denunciation.

Someone who really is a jailbreaker, a hacker and member of the who uses the handle , tweeted: “The fake JB [jailbreak] by @d0nfyxn was designed to fail: (it could have been worse and wrecked your files)”

In response, d0nfyxn tweeted to MuscleNerd: “It was a test, people are too naive, long life to the dev team ... sincerely.”

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Based on @d0nfyxn’s tweetstream, he seems to have begun posting on April 23, linking to videos and images purporting to show the jailbreak working successfully. Within two days he was defending his posts, insisting the video was not a fake but that the jailbreak code was very unstable. On April 25, he tweeted “I thought all that stabilize but not yet. Beta expected this week.” But the next day, he tweeted, “Release alpha version tomorrow ...”