Geohot is now working at Facebook

[The Fury]

NJ5 said:

The Fury said:

NJ5 said:

No.

No?... that's it? great debate. Why no? If I give my mate a baseball bat to play with and then he goes and beats someone up with it, police are likely to ask me questions about why I gave the baseball bat to him, I'd then have to prove I didn't give my friend the baseball bat when I knew he'd use it in such a way.

Tell me why this isn't true. I'd like to know.

If that's what you mean by being in trouble iwith the police, OK... but I don't see how this has anything to do with Geohot. He didn't give anything to anyone directly, he just published some information on the Internet.

As I said before people have been hacking electronics for a very long time, and to my knowledge no one was ever found guilty of it... In fact, US courts specifically said jailbreaking should be legal. Why do you think the Geohot/Sony/PS3 case is special?

Yes, that is what I meant, sorry if I didn't put it across as well as I could have. I was just trying to online an example where someone giving someone else something can result in problems with the law. In the case of Mr Hotz, like you say he didn't nothing illegal. Which is why he was sued by Sony, which was their decision to, and why he didn't goto jail.

There is nothing special except maybe that of fan reaction. As the PS3 was for so long unhackable to play homebrew or pirated games, his achievement and afterwards consequences made it more of an issue then other 'jailbreaking' instances.