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Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)

13 posts · originally from https://geek.digit.in/community/threads/facebook-confirms-hiring-famous-iphone-and-sony-hacker-geohot-george-hotz.143040/

rhitwick
rhitwick Original post #1
Jun 28, 2011 at 1:00 PM
Facebook hired GeoHot,

George Hotz, also known as "GeoHot" on the Internet, is now working at Facebook, the company confirms. Hotz is best known for both his iPhone hacking skills and as the person who jailbroke and reverse engineered Sony's PlayStation 3, leading to legal battles. In April, Sony announced it reached a settlement with Hotz, with Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against publishing any further code.

The following month, Hotz was hired at Facebook.

Full article: LINK
furious_gamer
Jun 28, 2011 at 1:02 PM
Great. I guess Mark would personally suggested to hire him. SO that they both can hack. :D
Tejas.Gupta
Jun 28, 2011 at 4:54 PM
Let the hacking begin :p
tkin
tkin #4
Jun 28, 2011 at 5:32 PM
Selling user account data and blaming it on the hackers, SWEET.
K
Jun 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM
Selling user account data and blaming it on the hackers, SWEET.

now that's looking like facebook's new agenda for steal accounts data. . . . :D
tkin
tkin #7
Jun 28, 2011 at 7:25 PM
Hotz has been very good on jailbreaking scene, why not Apple who hired him? :-o



lol...
Apple is waiting so they can file a suit against hotz and his employer AFTER he joins facebook so they can take a piece of the pie from facebook, Jobs is evil.
sygeek
sygeek #8
Jun 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM
Actually Facebook means, "And that's how you treat talented hackers."
tkin
tkin #9
Jun 28, 2011 at 7:40 PM
And Apple means, "Sue the daylights out of other companies," that's why they are waiting.
KDroid
KDroid #10
Jun 28, 2011 at 9:23 PM
And Apple means, "Sue the daylights out of other companies," that's why they are waiting.

lol!

Btw, I had never heard of GeoHot ever before. Just checked him out!
comp@ddict
Jun 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM
This guy deserves this for the genius he is.
thetechfreak
Jun 29, 2011 at 11:47 AM
Looks like facebook data is up the grabs! We will be receiving hacking tips in fb now :p
Alok
Alok #13
Jun 29, 2011 at 7:57 PM
Well i have to wiki about GeoHot:-|

:shock:I was thinking him as a big old man but wikipedia amazed me!