Geohot has had enough of the criticism he received when he announced that his iPhone 4 jailbreak would not be available to the public. I can only presume that some people went well over the top and he thought that it was time to get back to a happier place.
From iClarified- “Geohot has shut down the iPhone blog he used to announce and release jailbreaks over the past few years.
Visiting the site now says, “This blog is open to invited readers only”.
This comes after his recent announcement of achieving a jailbreak for the iPhone 4 without plans for public release was met with a lot of negativity.
His last update to the blog read:
Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things(I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning.
The real reason behind no release isn’t technical. It’s just that it will never stop, after blackra1n, people demand unlock, after blacksn0w, people demand untethered. I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking were difficult, it attracted a much higher caliber crowd.
Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake 
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the guy craved publicity, got it, and realised it was as much curse as blessing
@ Paul M: I disagree. I don’t think GeoHot ever wanted publicity. Those that are calling GeoHot a p@#sy or the like can only blame themselves. Right before he made the decision to close shop, I was one of the last ones to comment, telling him that I had just been thinking about how the iTouch/iPhone community feels as if they are entitled to a jailbreak/unlock, and don’t even take the time to LEARN what does what and why it does that. The majority of the community just wants a jailbreak so they can run pirated apps. Thank god Appulo.us closed shop as well; Kyek saw what was coming. Techies like GeoHot and myself don’t care to bring you pirated apps or the like. We want to develop jailbreaks because of the challenge of it. The excitement of being able to find a loophole to run (non-pirated) third party code. Thanks alot to the leeches of the community!
@wht3wnt3r
if he didn’t want the publicity, why did he go on a public speaking tour? he could have worked quietly with other iphone devs and let them get all the publicity.
I don’t disagree that he enjoyed the technical challenge, but when he made himself a public spectacle he should have been prepared for the consequences