Galaxy Nexus rooted before even being released

We all knew it would happen sooner or later, the only real surprise is that it happened even before it was released, but the Galaxy Nexus has been rooted. Paul O’Brien, the founder of MoDaCo tweeted that they have put together Superboot which is a boot.img for your Nexus that when booted will root your device the first time you boot. For full instructions head on over to the source link for the r1-galaxynexus-superboot.zip and instructions, or just save the link for when you actually receive your Galaxy Nexus.