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Glad to see that geohot is back being geohot, first by dropping a local DoS for AMD cards, then this. Much more interesting :p
by rfoo 3y ago
Glad to see that geohot is back being geohot, first by dropping a local DoS for AMD cards, then this. Much more interesting :p
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- jaimehrubiks 3y agoIs this the same guy that hacked the PS3?
- mepian 3y agoYes, that's him.
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- WithinReason 3y agoAnd the iPhone
- yrds96 3y agoAnd android
- zoklet-enjoyer 3y agoAnd the crypto scam cheapETH
- mattanimation 3y ago[flagged]
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- mikepurvis 3y agoYes, but he spent several years in self-driving cars (https://comma.ai https://comma.ai), which while interesting is also a space that a lot of players are in, so it's not the same as seeing him back to doing stuff that's a little more out there, especially as pertains to IP.
- nolongerthere 3y agoDid he abandon this effort? That would be pretty sad bec he was approaching the problem from a very different perspective.
- Topgamer7 3y agoHe stepped down from it. https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/29/the-heroes-journey.html https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2022/10/29/the-...
- cjbprime 3y agoIt's still a company, still making and selling products, and I think he's still pretty heavily involved in it.
- dji4321234 3y agoHe has a very checkered history with "hacking" things. He tends to build heavily on the work of others, then use it to shamelessly self-promote, often to the massive detriment of the original authors. His PS3 work was based almost completely on a presentation given by fail0verflow at CCC. His subsequent self-promotion grandstanding world tour led to Sony suing both him and fail0verflow, an outcome they were specifically trying to avoid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679907 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679907 In iPhone land, he decided to parade around a variety of leaked documentation, endangering the original sources and leading to a fragmentation in the early iPhone hacking scene, which he then again exploited to build on the work of others for his own self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667273 There's no denying that geohotz is a skilled reverse engineer, but it's always bothersome to see him put onto a pedestal in this way.
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- StressedDev 3y agoWho is melon?
- aeyes 3y agoelon musk?
- pixelpoet 3y agoThere was also that CheapEth crypto scam he tried to pull off.
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