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Looks like a lot of people are disappointed that Geohot did not meet a misfortune.

working at facebook is not a misfortune?

Lots of hackers get hired after they do their crimes. I'm not suprised at all . What better way to protect your system then to have one of the worlds best hackers creating the security or working on the product.

facebook become shitter after these past few years.
let see if he can help they make facebook a bit better.

To be fair, what Geohot did was not illegal by law.

So true, he hacked his own product and didn't use it to steal software and such. But his hacking lead to people finding ways to use their PS3 for crime. So his hacking did end up helping criminals its just he himself wasn't a criminal.

I wonder when our Governments get their hands on LulzSec if they will actually serve alot of time in prison or get jobs working for our Governments against other hackers. Or if when they get out of prison they get jobs with Norton or something. Companies want these hackers to help them provide better security.

Everything can be used in illegal ways. I can clobber you with a book, do I blame the publishers?

If we blamed/punished everyone who even remotely "helped criminals"... well, do I need to continue?

Depends. No one would use a perfectly interesting book to smack anyone. However, one would not hesitate if the book was boring. So, if the publisher went ahead and published a turd, it's totally their fault. If they made a good book, and someone still used it as a weapon, then we've got to delve further into the matter...who made the paper that the book used? Was it good quality paper or poor? Still can't solve the question as to who to blame? Who grew the tree that provided the paper? Was it a person, or did it happen naturally? And this is where you can assign blame (if the earlier steps failed to assign blame to the proper parties involved).

To sum up: blame everything/everyone else except for the one actually at fault...ie. the book clobberer.

In this case, Sony would be the publishers, the guy handing you the book to clobber someone with might be though at part to blame.