"if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3."
I would take the mans word and hire him. I'd even through Apple into his list, he did after all release jailbreaks for the iPhone too.
I would take the mans word and hire him. I'd even through Apple into his list, he did after all release jailbreaks for the iPhone too.
On the other hand, there are any number of independent security assessment/pen testing firms that would love to have this guy's skills. He might even end up working on consoles. That's probably the way he should approach it.
A chain of command that's savvy enough to really want him despite that is one you'd actually want to be in, though. An organization that focused on results would be all edge like the fictional Maas Neotek from Gibson's Neuromancer.
Absolutely. But if they were the savvy type, would they have been pwned at nearly every security layer like that? If you haven't seen it, the video says it better than I can.
So probably if he were hired, it would be with mixed feelings of some of his uppers. At best, he probably "wouldn't fit in with the team" as they say. Someone like him would need to be either in charge of the whole freaking platform direction, or not there at all. (now there's an idea) Seriously, IMHO Sony's best move would be to fire the guy responsible for reneging on Linux and hire someone with a clue instead. Microsoft would have the guts do something like that.
It's ridiculous. I bought a PS3 (by coincidence) the other day. Guess what?! It doesn't play PS2 games! PS2 plays PS1 games (so I thought). Our Wii plays GameCube games. Xbox360 plays Xbox games. What is a PS3 if not a PlayStation? I didn't have my heart set on it anyway, but the kids tracked down some PS2 games they wanted. They specifically wanted the older PS2 versions because they didn't like the PS3 versions!
In fairness, Gran Turismo 5 and Little Big Planet are beautiful and fun games and they have only crashed a few times.
Congrats Sony, you thought you'd force your customers to repurchase their favorite games didn't you? Instead you made enemies of an upcoming generation of gamers.
If only they could have heard the tears of the small children on Christmas morning upon finding out that they would not, in fact, be able to use the dance pad and the older Dance Dance Revolution which had the actual anime songs that they had saved their allowance to buy and they would only be able to dance to Lady Gaga instead...
(that's only slightly an exaggeration)
If you really want to play PS2 games, buy a used PS2 on Craigslist for a fraction of the cost of a PS3. Heck, you can still get them new.
Then they ought to stop selling it as a "PlayStation 3" once it no longer performs the functions of a "PlayStation 3". Call it a "Playstation 3--" or something.
Product model names invoke the very definition of what the product is and does, particularly when the name includes a number. They aren't just attractive words to be chosen by Marketing, even when it was the same company that made the initial definition of the feature set in the first place.
Like I said, it wasn't particularly frustrating or surprising to me to find this out after I bought it, but only because my expectations of a Sony product were so low to begin with. I would have been shocked if this had been Google though.
Getting to the point, the PS3's with the PS2 core were dropped not long after release due to their high cost. I understand your frustration, but it's becoming increasingly important to do research and understand each system's capabilities before putting your dollars down... the 360 is no exception here either.
True. If I were him, I'd try working at Apple. Also, "they" are not monolithic. It's quite possible that the parties they beat would not be in his chain of command. One would have to do some diligent research before taking that job. It might well be worth it, however.
I am happy for you. I think you have not worked anywhere really bad. Look at what what you are missing out on: http://www.google.com/search?q=vindictive+employer
Actually, I didn't think this was about GeoHot, but one of the guys presenting at CCC.
Though talk about a comeback... This is a much better online "hire me" than the ones that were popular on HN several months ago.
This is not unlike his behavior that got him rejected in the iPhone scene. I am actually a bit surprised that there are so many comments here praising him.
Hiring the fail0verflow guys, on the other hand, would be a good move.
There is a reason that he never releases technical details and just comes out of nowhere.
The only reason that he was able to do anything with his dump was because of all of fail0verflow's work. See the twitter feed of marcan42 for clarification.
Actually, since the beginning, geohot's ps3 trick was just him copying what fail0verflow had done on the wii (glitching the address bus). He didn't give them credit for that either.
I will agree though that what geohot did and the what Team Twiizers (as they were calle back in the day) are quite similar.
It's the phone manufacturers that have to use cryptography to prevent you from actually enjoying a device you just paid them $600 for, since they can't legally kill you if you do something they don't like.