(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Infamous hardware hacker George Francis Hotz, a.k.a. GeoHot, gives his thoughts on Sony's role in the ongoing PSN crisis and outlines why personal data was at risk in this case rather than other system hacks.

George Francis Hotz, commonly known as GeoHot, the hacker most widely recognized for cracking the Apple iPhone and Sony's PlayStation 3 -- the latter activity invoking Sony's legal wrath -- recently posted his own thoughts about the PSN crisis at his online blog.
PS3 Hacker GeoHot Calls Sony Executives Crazy, ArrogantClaiming no responsibility for the current incident, Hotz instead established his formal position on the PSN attack, insinuating that the hackers responsible make the modding community at large look bad. Hotz also took Sony's executives to task, stating that the engineers within the company were not at fault. Instead, Hotz implied that Sony's higher-ups provoked the hacking/modding community with arrogant attitudes and poor technical practices.

"Now until more information is revealed on the technicals, I can only speculate, but I bet Sony's arrogance and misunderstanding of ownership put them in this position. Sony execs probably haughtily chuckled at the idea of threat modeling.

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Sony needs to accept that they no longer own and control the PS3 when they sell it to you. Notice it's only PSN that gave away all your personal data, not Xbox Live when the 360 was hacked, not iTunes when the iPhone was jailbroken, and not GMail when Android was rooted. Because other companies aren't crazy.":tits:

How are they liars if they didn't say anything? Its not like they said nothing was compromised then changed the story. How did they "mislead"?

I play PSN because of friends, family, and hatred of Microsoft. I play games for fun, I leave the "WE SHALL OVERCOME" speeches for nerds.

In 2-3 days PSN will be up with freebies, which is good enough. I'm too busy FIGHTING LEGIT problems to worry about what Sony does.

If people hack, great. But fighting Sony for trying to prevent that is not like trying to stop poverty and I wish GEEKS would realise that. You hack because its fun and saves money NOT as a way to prove a point. If you buy a system you should mod as you please but you have no right to do that on PSN servers. Trying to paint hacking as some movement against Sony is stupid. I watch bootlegs because they are cheap NOT to fight "evil movie studios".

Yeah, sony did fail at protecting out personal information.