>I personally suspect they also astroturfed gaming sites to get GeoHot's hack associated with cheaters at Call of Duty, which it was not I don't know about tha

>I personally suspect they also astroturfed gaming sites to get GeoHot's hack associated with cheaters at Call of Duty, which it was not I don't know about that. Remember, the vast majority of gamers only know hackers as one of two things: people who take over websites, and people who cheat in video games. GeoHot being a "PS3 hacker" would likely naturally have led these people to assume the latter, and the combination of general ignorance of the issue and an emotionally charged reaction to cheaters likely enabled that rumour to spread virally. I certainly don't think astroturfing was necessary to spread that rumour, and barring any evidence showing Sony's complicity in doing so I'm happy to apply Occam's Razor and assume it spread naturally. Never presume malice where stupidity will suffice.