Geohot Says He Is Not Involved In Sony PSN Attack

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Posted April 29, 2011 at 8:15am by iClarified

Geohot has posted his thoughts on the Sony PSN hack offering sympathies to those victims whose data has been stolen and declaring that he was not involved.

To start, I sure am glad I don't have a PSN account about now. And, as a onetime victim of identity theft, I feel for everyone who's data has been stolen. I'm not going to make cracks at Sony for flipping a shit when /their/ data is compromised, and not even having the decency to apologize when it's your data that's misappropriated.

And to anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I'm not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door. Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone elses server and stealing databases of user info is not cool. You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony.

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Geohot Says He Is Not Involved In Sony PSN Attack

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Horsage - April 30, 2011 at 9:49pm

Companies should never fight against hackers, first because hackers can do whatever they want, and second because the companies success, is in big part thanks to them. Windows was always #1 due to the huge amount of piracy in the world, iPhone has more followers because of JB.

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Nabilovsky - April 30, 2011 at 2:34am

I think a lot of people have misrepresented hackers with crackers. Nowadays all crackers & hackers are lumped to just "hackers", while those who break to Sony's steal data are actually "crackers". I am certain that Geohot is not a cracker, he's a hacker.

dancj - April 30, 2011 at 2:54am

Actually I think you've got jacket and crackers he wrong way round.

dancj - April 30, 2011 at 2:55am

Oops - damn iPhone autocorrect. I mean "hackers and crackers"

Jay - April 30, 2011 at 1:17am

I can possibly see a job at Sony in Georges future.....

bob - April 29, 2011 at 7:59pm

If I was "him" I'd do it. That's way I kinda like the idea of him doing it. Good for him if he really did it,...

turim - April 29, 2011 at 12:36pm

Haha, that surely is wellspoken :-D I feel a bit sorry for Sony as well their customers; it´s not like everyone at Sony is douchebaguettes, and it´s the consumers that suffers... My old creditcard was outdated, so I cross my fingers they can´t exploit that crap!

onemeslR - April 29, 2011 at 8:59am

Lol, people accused him.

Jordanator - April 29, 2011 at 8:44am

Wow I really thought it was him lol

dancj - April 29, 2011 at 1:36pm

Do you know he left the country without telling "ANYONE"? I imagine he told the people he actually knows. (and by "knows" I'm talking about people he knows in person and not just though the Internet.

DontBe Rudy'tarded - April 29, 2011 at 7:11pm

I second that... Rudy you're off your meds. Go fill your prescription.

PReaper - April 29, 2011 at 8:36am

Well spoken by Geohot!!