Post: Sony Meets With Famous PS3 Hacker GeoHot
07-03-2012, 02:41 AM #1
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People might not remember, but around this time last year there was a massive news story breaking involving Sony and this person who went by the handle of GeoHot (real name George Hotz). Long story short, George managed to hack the Sony system to give people direct root access to the system—something that basically means that it can emulate whatever the user wants. There was a lawsuit, some additional hacking to the network in protest, and it all ended up with George getting a great job at Facebook to try and make sure the same thing didn’t happen there.

Well just this week Mr. Hotz sat down with a large group of engineers to talk about what they could do to make Sony, their network, and future products even safer. Interestingly enough GeoHot has received enough notoriety since the lawsuit that this meeting alone warranted an interview with some rather important newspapers (namely The New York Post). Directly after this case broke Hotz was quoted repeatedly saying that he would be more than happy to go and work with Sony to try and prevent this kind of thing from happening, and as odd as that sounds that kind of thing is what ends up happening 9 times out of 10 with these kinds of events.

Source: The New Yorker (via gamezone)



Oh and if people are thinking this is geohot trying to get into sony HQ to get the new exploit around the console well you have another thing coming sony will make him sign a contract obviously today in this world if you work for the security of the software & hardware of any console/computer or machine on this earth you will need a contract stating a fine print saying "You fuck with us we fuck with you" not really that but im sure the message would be clear.....
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07-04-2012, 04:10 AM #47
he just turned into a fag.
07-04-2012, 05:34 AM #48
braindead
Bounty hunter
LOL maybe he becomes Sonys new Security Chief Officer ;-)
07-04-2012, 06:23 AM #49
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Originally posted by monkeystompu76 View Post
Please, don't confuse my opinion with naivety. Breach of contracts and leaking are 2 diff things. I'm sure the man is smart enuf that if he were gonna screw em over,he wont leave a paper/cyber trail saying he did. C'mon...


Well you know it would be suspicious.... & hell think about it sony is not idiots............

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07-04-2012, 06:39 AM #50
Ever since I used 3.1.2 jailbreak for my iPod I've been hopeful that I could jailbreak whatever I want but when it came to the ps3 I realized this too late. I know I can't jailbreak it now but money can do a lot. George Hotz made a real difference on my life. Now that he is soon going to take this away everything I believe in I just might have to say goodbye to my hope of ever hosting a challenge lobby on mw2. But as I have learned with hope comes her evil twin, disappointment. :(
07-04-2012, 07:11 AM #51
New here (missing profile picture, sig and detail explain it) but I would like to state that I have a feeling George will have a huge influence towards Sony's future decisions and could possibly direct them towards a more open community to it's players via homebrew. George can possibly allow us to have OtherOS back, homebrew/custom game & app developing and could rid of the pirating.

That's what George tried to do in the first place, and instead of releasing an exploit he could place it directly into the root of the PS3 and fix any exploits that could cause his efforts to form into another lawsuit thus caused from pirating.

In all honesty, I have a feeling Sony will be changing drastically and become more user friendly and welcome to the community if George works for Sony.
07-04-2012, 09:42 AM #52
Symbul
Banned
I prolly would do the samething Geohotz is doing, Rather get money, than listen to people ask for CFW.
07-04-2012, 12:04 PM #53
The boy was traumatized, now he's all goody-goody, OR they're paying him A LOT of money o.o
07-04-2012, 12:34 PM #54
method1278
OLD SCHOOL IS COOL
Don't no what to make look what his done 4 us with apple products
07-04-2012, 12:48 PM #55
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Originally posted by method1278 View Post
Don't no what to make look what his done 4 us with apple products


Wdf :S I can't understand what you just wrote...

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