PS3 Hacker Hotz Donates $10K to EFF, Takes Another Shot at Sony
PS3 hacker George "Geohot" Hotz has donated $10,000 to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, which supported Hotz in his defense against Sony.Hotz posted a screen shot of his $10,000 PayPal donation on his blog. "As promised, all left over legal defense money, plus a little to bump it to a nice number, has been sent to EFF," he wrote. "Thank you all so much for your support, without it, things could have been much worse."
Earlier this month, Hotz and Sony mutually agreed to settle their suit, and Hotz agreed to a permanent injunction against posting information that Sony wanted removed. Sony and Hotz were at odds after Hotz hacked the Sony PS3 and posted his circumvention technique on his Web site, as well as links for others to do the same. Sony claimed that Hotz violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by doing so, and that Sony would have suffered irreparable harm if Hotz's actions were not curtailed.
The EFF has not commented on the Hotz donation, but in a blog post after the settlement was announced, the organization suggested that the deal might "chill security research on Sony products."
"The judicial process should never be used to shut down lawful communication and investigation. Here's hoping future security researchers will refuse to be intimidated and that other companies will decline to follow Sony's heavy-handed example," wrote EFF's Corynne McSherry.
Hotz wasn't so sure that would be the case. "If you piss them off enough for them to pull out the legal team and their million dollar checkbook, worst thing that happens is you have to super swear to never do it again," he wrote on his blog.
Hotz won't be the one to piss them off next time, though. "As much as I don't respect the goons at Sony, I do respect the court," he wrote. "At the end of the day, something I take comfort in. The PS3 got OWNED."
Hotz did speculate how Sony will handle security for its next-generation portable device, codenamed NGP, the successor to the PlayStation Portable (PSP).
"I'm curious as to who Sony is hiring for NGP security. Lawyers? Get the code to sign a contract that it won't have exploits? You shouldn't piss off the community of people who are actually talented at this stuff. Hell, maybe you even pissed off your engineering employees enough to leave some nice backdoors?" he wrote.
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I guess payback 'being hell' rolls down-hill. :-(
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Info of the logic:
Anonymous declares war on Sony over PS3 hacking case
PS3 hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz just got himself a powerful ally in ‘hacktivist’ ensemble Anonymous. Hotz was the first hacker to crack security on the PlayStation 3, allowing (perfectly legal) homebrew software and (not-so-legal) pirated games to be played.Since then, there’s been a rap video, a lawsuit brought by Sony against Hotz, and accusations from Sony that the hacker had fled to South America (he was actually on spring break).
Things could get interesting for Sony now that Anonymous has entered the fray, and by ‘interesting’ I do of course mean ‘quite bad’. Anonymous, which has previously hacked Gawker, Amazon, Mastercard, and computer ‘security’ firm HBGary, released the following threatening statement on it's site: http://www.inquisitr.com/102639/anonymous-declares-war-on-sony-over-ps3/
Turns out the guy skipped town:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2382516,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121
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