George Hotz, the hacker that was the first person to have hacked the iPhone and, of course, was responsible for hacking the Playstation 3 – has taken a job at Facebook.
A member of the Chronic-Dev Team named Joshua Hill said in a live stream interview with MyGreatFest that Hotz, didn’t want the attention of a hack attempt on the iPad 2 as he is now an employee of the social network Facebook and doesn’t want to be in the limelight.
“Facebook is really an amazing place to work"¦first hackathon over,” was posted on his Facebook and is the first comment to commune from ‘GeoHot’ so far, though he has also told his friends that he wishes to stay out of the public limelight as much as possible.
It’s not the first time a major corporations has coveted the services of Hotz. In January Microsoft offered him a free Windows Phone 7 handset, with the hope that he could build “some cool stuff” for the handset.
Hotz himself has become something of a internet star after his successful manipulations of bo end th Apple iPhones and iPod Touches as well as Sony’s PlayStation 3. The latter exploit, in which he made it possible for users to run homebrew apps and operating systems on their PlayStation 3 systems, was the catalyst for a four-month legal battle between Sony and Hotz.
And Sony’s very act of suing Hotz was the final straw for his fellow hacker and lit the touch paper and started the cyber terrorism, as fellow members of Anonymous begun a digital war against Sony.
The hacktivist group Anonymous launched a distributed denial of service attack against Sony in April to retaliate for the company going after Hotz.
And it was this attack, claims Sony, which distracted the company from noticing the cyber-thieves that ultimately ended up stealing information for a total of 77 million user accounts across Sony’s PlayStation Network
Sony and Hotz ultimately settled out of court at the of March: Hotz is forbidden from engaging in “unauthorized access” to a Sony product, including the circumvention of any protection measures on any of Sony’s products. Fines for violating the agreement would cost Hotz $10,000 per violation, to a maximum of a quarter-million dollars.
Next we’ll find out that the members of LulzSec gave up hacking to take up jobs at Homeland Security.
Do you think it’s right the people who break law and get caught should be offered jobs or should the be taken to court and face charges for what they have done ? Let us know in the comments section.
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