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28-06-2011, 01:00 PM
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Democracy is a myth
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Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Facebook hired GeoHot,
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George Hotz, also known as "GeoHot" on the Internet, is now working at Facebook, the company confirms. Hotz is best known for both his iPhone hacking skills and as the person who jailbroke and reverse engineered Sony's PlayStation 3, leading to legal battles. In April, Sony announced it reached a settlement with Hotz, with Hotz agreeing to a permanent injunction against publishing any further code.
The following month, Hotz was hired at Facebook.
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28-06-2011, 01:02 PM
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Excessive happiness
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Great. I guess Mark would personally suggested to hire him. SO that they both can hack. 
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28-06-2011, 04:54 PM
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Ethical Hacker :)
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Let the hacking begin 
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28-06-2011, 05:32 PM
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Project Halcyon V2.0
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Selling user account data and blaming it on the hackers, SWEET.
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28-06-2011, 06:25 PM
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In The Zone
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
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Originally Posted by tkin
Selling user account data and blaming it on the hackers, SWEET.
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Absolutely right.... 
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28-06-2011, 06:38 PM
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android lover
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
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Originally Posted by tkin
Selling user account data and blaming it on the hackers, SWEET.
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now that's looking like facebook's new agenda for steal accounts data. . . .
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28-06-2011, 07:25 PM
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Project Halcyon V2.0
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
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Originally Posted by SenseiPhone
Hotz has been very good on jailbreaking scene, why not Apple who hired him? 
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Apple is waiting so they can file a suit against hotz and his employer AFTER he joins facebook so they can take a piece of the pie from facebook, Jobs is evil.
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28-06-2011, 07:30 PM
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Mozilla Rep
Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Lucknow
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Actually Facebook means, "And that's how you treat talented hackers."
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28-06-2011, 07:40 PM
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Project Halcyon V2.0
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
And Apple means, "Sue the daylights out of other companies," that's why they are waiting.
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28-06-2011, 09:23 PM
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FUBAR.
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
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Originally Posted by tkin
And Apple means, "Sue the daylights out of other companies," that's why they are waiting.
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lol!
Btw, I had never heard of GeoHot ever before. Just checked him out!
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29-06-2011, 09:09 AM
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EXIT: DATA Junkyard
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: New Delhi
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
This guy deserves this for the genius he is.
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29-06-2011, 11:47 AM
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Human Spambot
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Guwahati
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Looks like facebook data is up the grabs! We will be receiving hacking tips in fb now
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29-06-2011, 07:57 PM
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The Warchief
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Liberty City
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Re: Facebook Confirms Hiring Famous iPhone and Sony Hacker, GeoHot (George Hotz)
Well i have to wiki about GeoHot 
 I was thinking him as a big old man but wikipedia amazed me!
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