Carnegie Mellon professor David Touretzky, who was previously involved in the DeCSS case has challenged Sony by mirroring Geohot's website and the website of team fail0verflow, who published the fundamental flaw in PS3's encryption two weeks ago. He considers this to be a matter of free speech, and thinks that Sony's feeble attempts at attacking the hackers are destined to fail; a sentiment shared by many who understand the subject matter. Good going, professor!
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Mirror of GeoHot's PS3 Jailbreak
January 11, 2011:
Our friends at Sony are having another bad day: i.e., doing something breathtakingly stupid, presumably because they don't know any better. This time they're suing George Hotz for publishing PS3 jailbreak information, as reported by EnGadget, Attack of the Fan Boy, and inevitably, Slashdot. Hotz's jailbreak allows PS3 owners to run the software of their choice on a machine they have legally purchased. His site is geohot.com.
Free speech (and free computing) rights exist only for those determined to exercise them. Trying to suppress those rights in the Internet age is like spitting in the wind.
We will help our friends at Sony understand this by mirroring the geohot jailbreak files at Carnegie Mellon.
GeoHot Mirror
Click here for usage instructions.
Note to Sony lawyers: no doubt you're eager to rack up another billable hour by sending legal threats to me and my university. Before you go down that unhappy road, check out what happened the last time a large corporation tried to stop the mirroring of technical information here: The Gallery of CSS Descramblers. Have you learned anything in ten years?
David S. Touretzky
Research Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Last modified: Wed Jan 12 18:34:44 EST 2011
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