Geohot: "PSN hack nothing to do with me" News - PlayStation 3 - Page 1. George "Geohot" Hotz, the man who broke the PlayStation 3 wide open, has denied responsibility for the recent PlayStation Network hack that saw the details of 77 million accounts stolen. He even slammed those responsible, saying, "You make the hacking community look bad", and called on them to not sell users' personal information. "To anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I'm not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door," Hotz wrote on his blog. "Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone else's server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony. " After jailbreaking the PS3, Hotz settled out of court with Sony amid a bitter legal battle that began in January.
Hacker group Anonymous, however, was not, and declared war on Sony for its legal actions against Hotz. Hotz signed off with a message to the PSN hackers. Geohot got sued. Geohot.com. Geohot (geohot) Geohot's Channel George Hotz. Personal life[edit] Hotz grew up in Glen Rock, New Jersey, the son of Marie Minichiello and George Hotz.[3] He has one sister, Julia.[4] He attended the Bergen County Academies, a magnet public high school.
He was in AEDT (Academy for Engineering and Design Technology).[5] He graduated with a 2.7 GPA and completed his required community service 3 hours before graduation. [citation needed] Hotz is an alumnus of the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth program. Additionally, George Hotz attended the Rochester Institute of Technology for a short period of time[when?]. He started his major as a Biotechnology - Bioinformatics option major in August 2007, but withdrew from the institution soon after. In March 2012, Hotz was booked and charged with felony marijuana possession in Sierra Blanca, Texas on his way to SXSW conference in Austin.[6][7] The charges were later dropped.
Hacking Apple iOS devices[edit] Hacking the PlayStation 3[edit] Why Hackers Hate Sony. It's not such a happy time over at Sony these days thanks to the bull's-eye on its back.
But why is Sony -- a major player in the worlds of gaming, movies and music -- suddenly in the crosshairs of hackers? Sony's reputation for aggressively trying to protect its intellectual property rights may provide some clues. Purdue University security expert Gene Spafford, who testified before Congress about Sony's security problems, said there are plenty of examples. He cited Sony banning users who modded their PlayStations, the infamous case of installing "rootkits" on PCs of users as copy control for CD, and lawsuits it has filed against the likes of George Hotz and Jammie Thomas.
Hotz, a hacker known for unlocking the iPhone, riled up Sony when he started a blog to document his progress hacking the PlayStation 3, which was regarded as being a locked and secure system. "The image that has emerged from all this is that Sony is a rapacious corporation with no heart," Spafford said. Sony BMG copy protection rootkit scandal. Sony BMG XCP audio CD player The Sony BMG CD copy protection rootkit scandal of 2005–2007 concerns deceptive, illegal, and potentially harmful copy protection measures implemented by Sony BMG on about 22 million CDs.
When inserted into a computer, the CDs installed one of two pieces of software which provided a form of digital rights management (DRM) by modifying the operating system to interfere with CD copying. Neither program could easily be uninstalled, and they created vulnerabilities that were exploited by unrelated malware. Sony claims this was unintentional. One of the programs installed even if the user refused its EULA, and it "phoned home" with reports on the user's private listening habits; the other was not mentioned in the EULA at all, contained code from several pieces of open-source software in an apparent infringement of copyright, and configured the operating system to hide the software's existence, leading to both programs being classified as rootkits.
Why Hackers Hate Sony? Geohot.