{"id":4110,"date":"2011-06-28T17:14:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2011-06-28T17:14:55","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T21:14:55","slug":"facebook-hires-sony-playstation-hacker-george-hotz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2011\/06\/facebook-hires-sony-playstation-hacker-george-hotz\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook hires Sony PlayStation hacker George Hotz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/post-images-2011\/georgehotz-facebook.jpg?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1309276563675\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>George Hotz, the infamous hacker how was able to jailbrake and  reverse engineer the Sony PlayStation 3 has been hired by Facebook,  according to ReadWriteWeb. Hotz just settled a court case with Sony in  April for cracking the code that allowed third-party software to be  installed on the PS3. He is also a skilled iPhone hacker, and goes by  the name GeoHot.<\/p>\n<p>Sony claimed that Hotz&#8217;s actions had violated  the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as well as the Computer Fraud Abuse  Act. As part of the settlement, Hotz agreed not to publish any more  code. This ruling angered a number of other hackers, which caused the  PlayStation Network to be hacked and millions of PSN users&#8217; personal  information compromised. As a result, the PSN was down for three weeks  costing Sony $24 million.<\/p>\n<p>No specific details were given about  Hotz&#8217;s duties at Facebook. I find it ironic that Sony Pictures was  responsible for The Social Network, so I guess you could say this is  Mark Zuckerberg&#8217;s way of getting back at the company for depicting him  in an unflattering manner. In reality the hiring is likely because Hotz  is truly on the cutting edge of code knowlege so his addition is a smart  move for the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Hotz, the infamous hacker how was able to jailbrake and reverse engineer the Sony PlayStation 3 has<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}