GeoHot Was High When He Posted PS3 Hack

[Avatar Roku]

[b/]For example, while running a red light near his residence in Palo Alto, CA, he said. "Fuck these assholes. Stupidest red light ever. It makes no sense at all. I live by morals, I don't live by laws. Laws are something made by assholes." [/b]

and THATS the problem..some jerk thinks he's smarter than "the systm" and somone will end up hit by a car...dress it up all you want running a red light is running a red light...no matter how "justified" you feel

I'm the kind of person that stands at a crossing and waits for the light to tell me I can walk across, even if the street is entirely empty and I'm the only person there (call me crazy), but I don't think he was saying "hey, I just drove through this red light in the middle of rush hour." What I got from it was him ignoring a red light because there was no cars or people anywhere in the area.

Not a good idea to pick and choose when to obey traffic lights, but I'm just sayin' I don't think it's as bad as it sounds.

Running a red light when no one is around? Not really unacceptable, though I would not say it was good either. But bragging about it as if that makes him a philosophical genius? That's more what I take issue with here.

GASP! A computer hacker that smokes pot?!

No.

Fucking

Way!

/sarcasm

One thing I do fail to understand is how hacking of any kind can be considered "legit and aboveboard."

How is it illegal to hack your own PS3?

I'm not claiming to be a legal expert and I can easily be wrong about this, but I'd imagine the terms of service with any piece of hardware states that you can't fuck around with the coding and then post said fuckery on the internet.

If nothing else, according to this article, it was enough to get Sony to sue him.

Terms of service/EULAs are already somewhat unstable legal ground because you have to agree to them AFTER you buy a given product (and if you opt out, then you lose the product you paid for), so it is hard to say if this is illegal or not. The only absolutely true thing I can say about it is that it is a gray area.

 

[Epic Fail 1977]

I remember the first time I jailbroke an iPhone, part way through the process a picture of some random pre-pubescent twat [http://www.iclarified.com/images/news/5497/20242/20242-500.jpg] unexpectedly appeared on my screen. I said out loud, "who the fuck is this?" Then a couple of weeks later I found out who he was, and that he's about thirty times as smart as I am. That was... humbling.

On topic: meh.

 

[Esotera]

I have a lot of respect for him managing to jailbreak both the iPhone and the PS3. The drug use makes it even more impressive, but is actually quite common amongst quite a few people the media would typically call hackers.

To everyone saying he opened the doors to piracy, this is true, but he didn't do it for that reason. Hackers want the freedom to install whatever they can on computer systems they have bought with their own money. Some users might install illegally copied software, but there's a lot of free/open source software out there that people want to install, and DRM prevents this. The PS3 in particular was marketed as a home computer that you could run Linux from & also play games at the same time; a lot of people bought it for this functionality.

Basically, at the end of the day, the PS3 is a computer, and you should be free to install whatever the fuck you like on it, regardless of potential consequences for piracy. This is generally true in the eyes of the law, and definitely in ethics.

 

[NewYork_Comedian]

I never really knew much about the guy to begin with, but from this article he just comes off as a total asshole (as many many others have said).

You follow the law for a reason. Saying that you ignoring it because "Laws are something made by assholes" just makes me want to strangle you. Get over yourself.

Then again I have little respect for people who smoke or do drugs to begin with. But seriously, fuck this guy.

 

[Woodsey]

And in the latest news: rebellious teenagers drink alcohol.

Yes we do.

OT: Alright.

*crickets chirp*

 

[F4LL3N]

SNIP

I think he meant his morals, not the clowns in charge. Do I need to remind you of simple thing such as gay marriage and how it's not legal despite it being fairly common sense that it should be? There's nothing wrong with saying "fuck you rules" when they're wrong, or at the very least you see them as wrong. Not that I'm commenting on the hacking in question; just in general that's a good way to live, in my opinion.

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Okay? So the dude was lit up. Doesn't make him any less of a public douche. A bullshit creed that amounts to "if it's good for me, I'll do it, regardless of what it means" that would have Ayn Rand beaming with egotistical asshole pride still makes no sense if anyone other than the individual in question is involved.

 

[ThatGuy]

I wasn't going to release the PS3's master key, until I got high.

I was going to exploit it for my own personal use, but then I got high.

Now Sony is suing my ass, and I know why.

Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high...

hahaha, nice

 

[Strazdas]

Some people are too smart for thier sake. what else is new?

 

[TomLikesGuitar]

George Hotz is arguably the most recognizable hacker name in the world.

Sigh... No... no he's not.

I'd actually never heard this guy's name until right now.

He will never be anything like, say, Mitnick.

It depends on the circles you travel. I've never heard of Mitnick before but I've heard of GeoHot.

I don't really know anything about hacking and that though, GeoHot is almost a household name now though after the whole Sony incident.

That's using the term household name VERY loosely.

Google is a household name. The Pirate Bay is not.
PS3 and I-Phone are household names. "GeoHot" is really not. Maybe on video game forums he is?

I'd say 90% of people I know have never heard of this kid.