All the stories tagged with: geohot
iPhone and PS3 hacker GeoHot now working at Facebook
06/27/2011, It’s been a long career for the relatively young 21-year-old George Hotz, a.k.a. GeoHot. After successfully unlocking the original iPhone and going on to release several jailbreaks for future iPhones, then fighting off Sony on his own after breaking down [...]
PS3 hacker Geohot settles with Sony over jailbreak, but did he just lose?
04/11/2011, The cat’s out of the bag: the ongoing lawsuit brought against hacker extraordinaire, George “Geohot” Hotz by Sony is over. By way of the official PlayStation blog, Hotz has allegedly settled with Sony over the entire hacking matter, with both [...]
Anonymous hacker group attacks Sony URLs and PlayStation Network
04/04/2011, If you thought Sony suing Geohot was interesting, wait until you get a load of this. Earlier this morning, the hacking collective Anonymous warned Sony that its ongoing battle with Geohot and fellow hacker Graf_Chokolo was a suppression of free [...]
PS3 Hacker Geohot Flees to South America to Escape Sony
03/23/2011, Oh, how the mighty have fallen. Famed iPhone hacker turned PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz a.k.a Geohot, has reportedly fled to South America from his New Jersey home in an attempt to escape Sony in their ongoing court battle over [...]
Sony allowed to inspect PS3 hacker’s hard drive
02/11/2011, Things are getting a little messier for the famous hacker George Hotz (GeoHot). The hacker, who is behind the PS3 and iPhone jailbreaks, is currently in hot soup with Sony after he posted the method of jailbreaking the PS3 online. [...]
Sony strikes out at the PS3 hacking community again
02/08/2011, It looks like Sony doesn’t look too kindly upon the PlayStation 3 hacking community. They have promised that they will be going after anybody that posts links to PS3 jailbreak code that’s been floating around the internet. Sony has been reported [...]
Sony updates PS3 firmware to 3.56 to prevent jailbreaking, Geohot hit with restraining order
01/27/2011, This probably isn’t going to be good news for the hacking community. PS3 owners will soon be prompted to update their system to the latest 3.56 firmware version, which will probably hit the pause button on your jailbreaking attempts at [...]
Sony hack court case postponed with jurisdiction questioned
01/17/2011, Sony’s legal eagles must be pretty upset to know that their claim against hacker Georgen “geohot” Hotz will be postponed, as this delay of a trial was due to questions of where the case should physically be held. At the [...]
PS3 hacker Geohot threatened with restraining order by Sony
01/12/2011, Sony’s not a company to ignore legal action when it’s needed and after the recent exploits of Geohot and fail0verflow regarding the PS3, Sony has ordered a restraining order to get the root keys and exploits taken offline. The legal [...]
Geohot jailbreaks PS3 with firmware 3.55
01/09/2011, Geohot once again terrorizes Sony employees with his latest exploit, jailbreaking the PS3′s latest firmware 3.55 – should be a walk in the park for the man who has made jailbreaking iPhones easy peasy. Apart from cracking the latest PS3 [...]
Hacker Geohot claims to have root keys to PS3
01/03/2011, You might remember a few days ago the folks at fail0verflow claimed that they managed to come up with a permanent PS3 jailbreak, thanks to some dodgy security measures. The team promised to release some PS3 development tools for hackers [...]
Is rubyra1n the next jailbreak from Geohot?
12/30/2010, You might remember Geohot, the popular iPhone hacker and provider of the pouplar blackra1n and limera1n jailbreak methods. Now folks out there have discovered hints of the next jailbreak from him. The domain rubyra1n.com was registered by him and certainly [...]
Limera1n runs on Mac, Greenpois0n plays nice with Linux and Mac
10/17/2010, Geohot’s iOS 4.1 jailbreak known as Limera1n will now play nice with Linux platforms in addition to those running on Windows and Mac OS X machines, while Chronic Dev Team’s greenpois0n variant will be able to handle just relevant iDevices connected [...]
