Posted April 28, 2011, 12:38 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in IT Security, Gaming
PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, has denied that he was involved in the PlayStation Network hack last week that took the network offline and saw 77 million user accounts comprised. Here's his stance...
Posted April 18, 2011, 11:05 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, has donated the remaining funds for his legal battle against Sony to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). He also says the battle with the PS3 will continue with or without him…
Posted April 11, 2011, 2:02 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, made a joint announcement with Sony today, saying the two parties have settled the lawsuit SCEA against Hotz. In the announcement, GeoHot made a brief statement saying that he never wanted…
Posted April 11, 2011, 1:24 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) and PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, have announced the settlement of the lawsuit filed by SCEA against Hotz in federal court in San Francisco, California. The parties reached an agreement in…
Posted April 4, 2011, 3:41 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
The hacker group Anonymous has begun targeting Sony's online Playstation store today; a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack temporarily took down playstation.com (it was down earlier today, then was back up, and is now again down at the time…
Posted March 23, 2011, 6:13 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Gaming blog VGHQ first started a rumor by saying that PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, has fled the country after court documents revealed a PlayStation Network account allegedly belonged to him. GeoHot previously denied having one,…
Posted March 17, 2011, 3:48 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that grants the company access to the PayPal account of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, for the last two years. Spero ruled that the Japanese console…
Posted March 6, 2011, 9:59 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming, The Web
Magistrate Judge Joseph C. Spero has awarded Sony a subpoena that allows the company to obtain the IP addresses of everyone who visited geohot.com, the personal website of PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, for the past…
Posted March 2, 2011, 7:30 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
When US District Judge Susan Illston ordered PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, to hand over his computer's hard drive to Sony last month, there was no talk of cloning the two HDDs in question. TIG, the…
Posted February 25, 2011, 3:03 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in GamingWith Video
PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, was recently on The Alyona Show. When asked about whether he thinks the whole issue will blow over and whether he has a chance to beat Sony in court, GeoHot responded…
Posted February 20, 2011, 1:14 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, is asking for donations to help pay for legal defense fees in his fight against Sony. He specifically calls the electronic giant a bully and then outlines why he needs financial help:
Posted February 13, 2011, 11:18 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in GamingWith Video
It seems that PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, isn't too pleased that Sony took away his hardware. Apparently he has decided to vent his anger in a rap song (video embedded below, MP3 available at MultiUpload)…
Posted February 11, 2011, 2:54 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
US District Judge Susan Illston has ruled that PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, must hand over his computer's hard drive to Sony. GeoHot's attorney, Stewart Kellar, objected since Sony would be able to see the contents…
Posted February 1, 2011, 1:54 PM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
Stewart Kellar, the lawyer representing George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, said he would challenge San Francisco District Court Judge Susan Illston's court order for his client to hand over his computers to Sony next week. The Temporary Restraining Order…
Hacker George Hotz, also known as GeoHot, is known for helping crack the iPhone and for releasing the PlayStation 3 root key and custom firmware. Understandably, he is fed up with both Apple's and Sony's stances on jailbreaking (Apple wants…
Posted January 12, 2011, 7:01 AM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Gaming, Software
Sony has filed a legal complaint against famed hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz and the fail0verflow team, which earlier this month managed to crack the PS3 root key and began spreading a modified firmware that allows homebrew apps and pirated software…
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