Really not that brilliant. It appears that the fail0verflow guys did all of the work here. He just beat them to the punch after taking the fruits of their labor, and dropped the key using their exploit.

This is not unlike his behavior that got him rejected in the iPhone scene. I am actually a bit surprised that there are so many comments here praising him.

Hiring the fail0verflow guys, on the other hand, would be a good move.

There is a reason that he never releases technical details and just comes out of nowhere.