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According to TechUnwrapped, Facebook now employs George Hotz, the young hacker who has drawn the legal ire of tech giants Apple and Sony. Hotz, who also goes by the online handle "Geohot," is said to be working at Facebook, possibly on a secretive new iPad app.

TechUnwrapped reported on Saturday that Chronic-Dev Team member Joshua Hill first outed Hotz's status at Facebook. During an online interview, Hill stated that Hotz had backed out of an iPad 2 hacking challenge because of his current day job at the social network.

Techmeme's Gabe Rivera later tweeted that Hotz's Facebook profile corroborated Hill's claims.

"Facebook is really an amazing place to work...first hackathon over," reads a June 22 post on Hotz's Facebook wall.

A Facebook spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.

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Geohot is awsome wish i was as good at tech as him

To bad sony didn't do the same thing :dumb:

I told Sony to hire him. They just didn't listen.

too bad sony didn't hire that genious