ah the very early days then, nice. yeah I understand your take, George did get credited for things that were a team effort (including a lot of work by gray). but really a lot of that was the press who just based it off him being the one to publish the unlock demo video, he just probably got tired of correcting people.
as a counterpoint in which he was definitely a team player and not many knew about, he helped us get iOS 3 for S5L8900 devices pwned when we couldn't get the firmware files decrypted due to tricks that Apple put in iBoot (for only that version too - taken out after), which involved using a built in coprocessor and a payload in an assembly language that wasn't ARM and none of us could recognize. so to try to work it out he actually reverse engineered the structure of the assembly language to help figure out what it was doing, which was really cool. I don't think the whole payload got fully "reversed" as I believe one of us (it was either ius or myself) found a data sheet that pointed to it being some type of 16-bit RISC based thing, but was still pretty cool to see how he went about solving the problem. there was nothing directly incentivizing him to help other than a fun challenge.
as a counterpoint in which he was definitely a team player and not many knew about, he helped us get iOS 3 for S5L8900 devices pwned when we couldn't get the firmware files decrypted due to tricks that Apple put in iBoot (for only that version too - taken out after), which involved using a built in coprocessor and a payload in an assembly language that wasn't ARM and none of us could recognize. so to try to work it out he actually reverse engineered the structure of the assembly language to help figure out what it was doing, which was really cool. I don't think the whole payload got fully "reversed" as I believe one of us (it was either ius or myself) found a data sheet that pointed to it being some type of 16-bit RISC based thing, but was still pretty cool to see how he went about solving the problem. there was nothing directly incentivizing him to help other than a fun challenge.