It doesn't really matter whether or not he was going to release the hack. Let's be honest for a minute.....name 3 things, other than piracy, that make a custom firmware even worth having. HBL does everything that the "anti-pirate" needs.
For those of you that use CFW to run your legitimate backups, good for you. The other 95% of people are going to abuse the privilege and play whatever they can download.
It's probably for the best that this CFW won't see the light of day (anytime soon?). Besides, if sales are so bad on the Vita, why bother hacking it anyway? No one is using it (including me).

