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"if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3." I would take the mans word and hire him. I'd even through Apple into his lis
by ronnier 16y ago
"if you want your next console to be secure, get in touch with me. any of you 3."
I would take the mans word and hire him. I'd even through Apple into his list, he did after all release jailbreaks for the iPhone too.
- geoffw8 16y agoSurely, someone has to hire this guy. Forget Apple. Intel? Nokia? IBM?
- executive 16y agoThe US Government?
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- jrockway 16y agoThey don't need security; they can just throw you in jail indefinitely, eventually give you a "trial" where some military types say they can execute you, and then execute you. BAI! It's the phone manufacturers that have to use cryptography to prevent you from actually enjoying a device you just paid them $600 for, since they can't legally kill you if you do something they don't like.
- fuxx0r 16y agoI would never hire him. This guy would release everything he knows if someone in the company wont do what he want. "GIMME MORE MONEY OR I WILL RELEASE THE KEY FOR THE PS4!". Sry, thats not business.
- ronnier 16y ago*throw
- marshray 16y agoI'm not so sure I'd want to take a job having just made my new chain of command look like incompetent idiots, they'd probably find a way to repay the favor. They'd just make him to sign a bunch of long-term NDAs and fire him 6 months later. If this guy had much experience in the workplace he'd know that development like this usually happens when an organization has systematically driven out the detail-oriented security-minded people. They tend to be on the low end of the "net reduction in buglist items per salary dollar" scale. On the other hand, there are any number of independent security assessment/pen testing firms that would love to have this guy's skills. He might even end up working on consoles. That's probably the way he should approach it.
- stcredzero 16y agoI'm not so sure I'd want to take a job having just made my new chain of command look like incompetent idiots A chain of command that's savvy enough to really want him despite that is one you'd actually want to be in, though. An organization that focused on results would be all edge like the fictional Maas Neotek from Gibson's Neuromancer.
- marshray 16y agoA chain of command that's savvy enough to really want him despite that is one you'd actually want to be in, though. Absolutely. But if they were the savvy type, would they have been pwned at nearly every security layer like that? If you haven't seen it, the video says it better than I can. So probably if he were hired, it would be with mixed feelings of some of his uppers. At best, he probably "wouldn't fit in with the team" as they say. Someone like him would need to be either in charge of the whole freaking platform direction, or not there at all. (now there's an idea) Seriously, IMHO Sony's best move would be to fire the guy responsible for reneging on Linux and hire someone with a clue instead. Microsoft would have the guts do something like that. It's ridiculous. I bought a PS3 (by coincidence) the other day. Guess what?! It doesn't play PS2 games! PS2 plays PS1 games (so I thought). Our Wii plays GameCube games. Xbox360 plays Xbox games. What is a PS3 if not a PlayStation? I didn't have my heart set on it anyway, but the kids tracked down some PS2 games they wanted. They specifically wanted the older PS2 versions because they didn't like the PS3 versions! In fairness, Gran Turismo 5 and Little Big Planet are beautiful and fun games and they have only crashed a few times.
- sliverstorm 16y agoBunnie, the original hacker of the first Xbox, was brought on as council by Microsoft to help improve security for the Xbox 360. You can see the results if you ever get deep into the security models of the two.
- burgerbrain 16y agoDidn't this happen with their last round of consoles, and didn't they hire the people that did this last time around? I recall something about this from that case with the guy who was chipping in CA a few weeks ago.
- boredguy8 16y agoClearly brilliant, but he also faked a photo of a jailbroken iPhone 4, which (apparently) motivated his partial withdraw from the scene. Though talk about a comeback... This is a much better online "hire me" than the ones that were popular on HN several months ago.
- comex 16y agoHuh? I don't remember any such thing and doubt he would do that.
- egohot 16y agoReally not that brilliant. It appears that the fail0verflow guys did all of the work here. He just beat them to the punch after taking the fruits of their labor, and dropped the key using their exploit. This is not unlike his behavior that got him rejected in the iPhone scene. I am actually a bit surprised that there are so many comments here praising him. Hiring the fail0verflow guys, on the other hand, would be a good move. There is a reason that he never releases technical details and just comes out of nowhere.
- Omega191 16y agoNo, this is different. geohot compromised metldr, fail0verflow did the other loaders. geohot's exploit is different, no one but himself knows how he did it (not even fail0verflow).
- Omega191 16y agoLet's not forget that fail0verflow found the keys. After this he saw that it was possible to exploit the loaders.