(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:

Yes Geohot

good OLD GEOHOT wat a star

lol and he's right...

I'll never understand how a company is arrogant for trying to prevent hacking there systems...

Just play videogames and if Sony is arrogant, get an Xbox

nice news....

Maybe i can clear it up for you, Sony isn't arrogant for trying to prevent hacking there network. There fu**ing ignorant for misleading people not letting the people who keep there @ss in business no the truth. For lieing to there customers when the truth finally revealed what everyone knew but they didn't wanna get in trouble. basically cause there pu**ys.

What? Are you using the PSN outage debacle as a way to RETROACTIVELY explain why they re arrogant?

I used to only comment in COD section... The PS3 section.. is full with these "Us vs Sony" feminist movements. I mean I HATE Microsoft so I bought PS3. End of the day I play videogames and outside of Sony violated human rights, I pop in a disc or porno :carling: and play. Sony is my TV brand and console so unless they kill a kitten, why give a shit? Especially if we still buy their products.

Isn't this the same as this thread made yesterday? > You must login or register to view this content.

Sony really needs to take responsibility, like GeoHot said.