Post: GeoHot still has a way to hack the PS3 and future Sony products
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04-14-2011, 04:02 PM
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Liquid8
Banned
Geohot is the man
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After the months-long legal battle between George “GeoHot” Hotz and Sony came to its conclusion this week, after both parties, agreeing to settle the matter via a joint settlement, wherein Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction against making public, any methods to hack the PS3 or any other Sony product, either, offline or online.
However, this settlement doesn’t permanently restrict Hotz from hacking Sony products, including the PS3 and sharing them with the public. There’s a clause, which enables him to do so, if he wants to.
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The court order states that, should Hotz violate the injunction, he will have to pay $10,000 to Sony, with a penalty cap of $250,000. Yes, you heard it, correct, the injuction is capped. Although, 250,000 is not by any means, a small sum, but for a globally recognized, hacker as Hotz, it’s merely change. Why? All he needs is 50,000 people willing to donate a mere $5, in order to amass that amount and then, he’s free to do whatever he wants with Sony products. It’ll take even fewer people to contribute that much, if the average donation is higher.
Although, unlikely, but the possibility of Hotz, amassing that much money from his supporters and paying it to Sony, and going on to hack the PS3 or the NGP won’t be a surprise either.
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More so, because of his reactions after the settlement, with him, publicly declaring, that he has decided to boycott all Sony products in his blog.
Hotz also shot back at Sony and had this to say regarding the class action suit filed against the company for the removal of OtherOS:
Originally posted by another user
“These class action lawsuits are the type that can bankrupt or do seriously financial harm to a company, and finally get Sony to realize that they are not above the law as they would like to believe,” he wrote.
Although, without paying a fine, Hotz can’t do as much as, touch a Sony product, but this penalty cap certainly leaves an option open for him, if he desires to resume his fight against Sony.
The penalty cap is an extremely surprising loophole in the clause and it’s baffling that Sony’s allowed such a thing to be included.
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04-14-2011, 05:37 PM
#20
Jonnyblaze301
Grunt
I know the ps3 is a better boat to ride but im just saying that all the opions and ideas floating around they should say hey lets give them what they want its not gonna hurt us ...cause for sure its not .. it seems they gearing towards really young kids instaed of us now .. SONY PLEASE STOP !!! be cool like you were
04-14-2011, 05:41 PM
#21
xLew--
Former Staff
Originally posted by al9522
they you woud be that sheeps that just follows everyone but why would anyone in the right mind give him money? What did he really do? i wouldnt give hm any money simply because he doesnt deserve it all he did was lose to Sony and now people think he is special please and I am willing to bet he wont hack the ps3 again
he is the reason ps3 is what it is today mate, he brang cfw to light. that is why i would simply support him and donate if he was do do something like that again
04-14-2011, 05:44 PM
#22
cluckin bell
Do a barrel roll!
hack xbox make cfw xbox 360 would be amazing i wish i was clever enough
04-14-2011, 07:17 PM
#24
cluckin bell
Do a barrel roll!
Originally posted by Tsim013
Xbox hack isn't called cfw 
And no geohot, isn't that busy anymore with consoles.
And no geohot, isn't that busy anymore with consoles.
ino jtags are out now but a custom dashboard what can be used on retail xboxs would be amazing
04-14-2011, 08:57 PM
#26
Ameht!
Dark Knight
Originally posted by Sniiickerz
Whats a Holodeck(Noob Question
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check this out and you can google the rest if you really wanna learn
Originally posted by another user
He was a finalist at the 2005 ISEF competition in Portland OR with his project "The Mapping Robot". Recognition included interviews on the Today Show and Larry King.[32] Hotz was a finalist at the 2005 ISEF competition, with his project "The Googler".[33] Continuing with robots, Hotz competed in his school's highly successful Titanium Knights battlebots team. George also worked on his project, "Neuropilot," in which he was able to read EEG signals off his head with hardware from the OpenEEG project.
Hotz competed in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a science competition for high school students, where his project, entitled "I want a Holodeck", received awards and prizes in several categories.[34] Hotz has received considerable attention in mainstream media, including interviews on the Today Show, Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, G4, ABC[35] CNBC,[36] and articles in several magazines, newspapers, and websites, including Forbes,[37] and BBC.[38]
The Forbes article said Hotz hopes to go into Neuroscience: "hacking the brain," he called it. In March 2008, PC World magazine listed George as one of the top 10 Overachievers under 21.[39] He entered the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007, quickly after gaining notoriety for hacking the iPhone, but withdrew from the school after 1 quarter. In December 2007, Hotz travelled to Sweden to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and talk about his 3D imaging invention (called Project Holodeck) that netted him a $20,000 Intel scholarship earlier that year.[40] In 2008 he worked at Google as an intern, on the Google Street View project.[41]
Hotz competed in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, a science competition for high school students, where his project, entitled "I want a Holodeck", received awards and prizes in several categories.[34] Hotz has received considerable attention in mainstream media, including interviews on the Today Show, Fox, CNN, NBC, CBS, G4, ABC[35] CNBC,[36] and articles in several magazines, newspapers, and websites, including Forbes,[37] and BBC.[38]
The Forbes article said Hotz hopes to go into Neuroscience: "hacking the brain," he called it. In March 2008, PC World magazine listed George as one of the top 10 Overachievers under 21.[39] He entered the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2007, quickly after gaining notoriety for hacking the iPhone, but withdrew from the school after 1 quarter. In December 2007, Hotz travelled to Sweden to attend the Stockholm International Youth Science Seminar and talk about his 3D imaging invention (called Project Holodeck) that netted him a $20,000 Intel scholarship earlier that year.[40] In 2008 he worked at Google as an intern, on the Google Street View project.[41]
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