Thread: Geohot quits Facebook !!

Famous hacker geohot (aka George Hotz) has quit Facebook!

what do u think ???
will he return to PS3?

what happened?? I'll bet they wouldn't let him jailbreak FB and he got all pissed, then left pouting lol

for ps3, he'll never return....he was court ordered to never touch sony's gear again. nobody would ever know if he did his own ps3, but if he were to ever release anything he'd be screwed. So no, we'll never see him again. he was probably offered a job at a software security firm or something. it's not a bad idea to have a hacker on your staff....hand them your work and say "now tell me its vulnerabilities and how I should fix them"

btw, what does that video have to do with this story?? lol

No where in that video did it say he quit Facebook. He was just at a "hack-a-thon" and created an app with someone else.

Originally Posted by Lightyear

btw, what does that video have to do with this story?? lol

ya, exactly
vid removed !!
my bad !!!

what does this have to do with ps3.

well, he got a little fat

After hacking into Sony's Playstation 3, George Hotz was hired by Facebook last June.

That gig didn't last long. He no longer works there.

So what is he doing in his free time?

Hacking.

Hotz was anything but bored at Backplane, a startup funded by Lady Gaga, where we ran into him this past Saturday. He told me he appreciated the space and the free pizza.

When Hotz waltzed in the door at Backplane, he introduced himself as the hacker who was sued by Sony, but he's most famous for releasing software that allows smartphone users to jailbreak their iPhone.

During the hackathon, I got to work with him as he built an app that allows you to see where your Facebook friends are on a map.

Aviv Ovadya, a Quora engineer, was also on the team. Ovadya focused on the front end mapping part of the program. Hotz was focused on getting the API info and programming that into location data. I helped advise them on its design and focused on documenting the process (see video footage below).

Hotz worked on making the map prettier, by making the actual photos of his Facebook profile friends appear. Another hacker suggested that Hotz filter the results by gender. So Hotz coded it to sort by female or male.

The app didn't win -- it lost out to a group of high school students.

Video + Source .

Unfortunately, I doubt if he will ever return to the PS3 scene since hes got hes got court orders to the teeth on this prohibiting him from doing so.

anonymous threatens an attack on facebook. will it happen?

riding Bicycle could not be forgotten

Originally Posted by ajaylion2

anonymous threatens an attack on facebook. will it happen?

Anonymous attacked the Gibson before using dialup from phone booths, wasnt it? So this should be no challenge :D

(ps. for people who dont know the movie im referencing, go an watch a young Angelina Jolie in Hackers)