Geohot, the hacker who cracked the PS3 is being sued and wants your money

Famed PS3 hacker Geohot has taken his fight against Sony to Youtube, using hip-hop as his weapon of choice.

George Hotz, the guy who hacked the PS3 earlier this month and who kind of looks like Frodo Baggins, has been issued a fairly water-tight restraining order. This restraining order is, however, just the beginning of legal proceedings and has been issued in order to safe-guard Sony’s interests before the official court hearings get underway at a later date. The …

Geohot, the guy who hacked the iPhone and most recently the PS3 has found an unlikely ally in their fight to hack anything they can find. Just moments after Geohot mentioned that they are planning on going out to get a Windows Phone 7 to try and hack they received a tweet from Brandon Watson, Director of the Windows Phone …

Everyone is aware that the PS3 has been hacked; if not, then just type “GeoHot” in our search box above and hit Enter. All sorts of homebrew programs can now be installed on PlayStation 3 consoles that have had the hack installed. Sony is working hard to try and regain some control but it’s taking a while, and “a while” …

Not going to make Konami happy at all. In fact, if you really care about gaming and the industry, it shouldn’t make you happy either. It was only a matter of time until the PlayStation 3 was hacked wide open. Now thanks to GeoHot that time has come, and the inevitable flood of pirated games will be just around the …

Over the last couple of weeks we have heard quite a bit about GeoHot and FailOverflow’s hacking exploits on the PS3 and how they have pretty much cracked it wide open for Homebrew applications and subsequently pirates to exploit. When the BBC asked him about a possible lawsuit he had the following to say I am confident I would win …

  One of the bigger gaming news stories this year so far is that George Hotz (or Geohot to the internet at large) , the justifiably ego-driven hacker du jour found, and released the PS3’s root keys. What’s are these root keys, you ask? It’s a set of largely incomprehensible numbers that Sony uses to digitally sign licenced software for …

If you’ve turned your PS3 on in the last few hours, you may have noticed that there’s a brand new firmware update available for your black glory box. It’s made no obviously changes to the XMB, so what changes has the large number heralded? The big thing, really, is that it’s preparing your PS3 to be able to run 3D …

If you were one of the handful of people running OtherOS on your big black box of Blu-ray, I hope you haven’t updated to firmware 3.21 already. Why? True to his hacker word, George Hotz has gotten the feature running on Sony’s latest PS3 firmware – which was intended to remove the ability, citing “security concerns.”

The latest firmware update for everyone’s favourite black box ‘o Blu-ray has gone live today – and unfortunately word of it removing the Other Os feature wasn’t some sort of elaborate April Fool’s Hoax. In a move that’s pissing a lot of people off, the update offers no new features, instead removing them.

George Hotz, better known as GeoHot, one of the pioneers of iPhone hacking and tinkerer who discovered the PS3 exploit is now a man on a mission. Unhappy with Sony’s decision to remove the OtherOS feature  – the ability to install Linux – from the PS3, he’s undertaken to saving it. He’s encouraging people not to update – and says …