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> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers It is! This is run by George Hotz, aka geohot, aka the kid who cracked the iPhone SIM lock at 17yo, relea

by shon 2y ago

> Everything sounds like it's just a bunch of hackers It is! This is run by George Hotz, aka geohot, aka the kid who cracked the iPhone SIM lock at 17yo, released the 1-click jailbreak for iOS before he was 20, and then went ahead and cracked the PS3 shortly after and released Sony’s private key (used to sign all PS3 software) for all the world to see. He’s a beast. Now he’s doing Tinygrad and Comma. You won’t be seeing Corpo-speak from this guy or his team lol. Cool to see him doing well and doing it his own way.

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phowat 2y ago
Exactly! And I would expect hacker news of all places to understand that.
jsmith12673 2y ago
Didn't geohot leave Comma like ~2 years ago
- zeroq 2y ago
  He left Coma for tinycorp the same way Elon left SpaceX for Twitter.
  - Rebelgecko 2y ago
    Didn't Geohot also leave for twitter?
    - danpalmer 2y ago
      He was only at Twitter for a few weeks, maybe a few months before quitting because it turns out things are A Bit More Complicated Than That TM. This is one of the reasons why I would feel weird about entrusting my life to Comma.ai. I'm not that keen on Move Fast and Break Things when the things are my bones.
    - threeseed 2y ago
      He famously criticised the engineers there, joined, delivered basically nothing and then left.
melvyn2 2y ago
How many of those accomplishments were truly his, I wonder ? https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814 https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814
- oldgradstudent 2y ago
  The only thing the link contains is a bunch of people claiming that his achievements were built on other people's. Yet not even a single a achievement is mentioned by name, nor any specific detail is given. It's evidence for nothing.
  - homarp 2y ago
    except marcan is https://archive.org/details/console-hacking-2010 https://archive.org/details/console-hacking-2010 not just 'a bunch of people'
    - lagniappe 2y ago
      marcan is at least 2 people
      - throawayonthe 2y ago
        [dead]
  - NobodyNada 2y ago
    The next message in the thread gives specifics about the PS3 crack referenced in the parent: > Disclaimer: I have personal experience with him when he took the PS3 ECDSA fail research I and the other fail0verflow folks presented at CCC, and a couple weeks later released the PS3 metldr keys obtained using our method, with zero credit or reference to us. Then Sony sued us all because they assumed we were working with him, even though we'd been careful not to actually release any crypto keys precisely to avoid giving the lawyers excuses to sue us. > So yes, I was named as a defendant on a lawsuit with him, thanks to his antics. That wasn't a fun few months.
theolivenbaum 2y ago
You forgot to mention how he also single-handed solved search at Twitter /s

by shon 2y ago

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phowat 2y ago

Exactly! And I would expect hacker news of all places to understand that.

jsmith12673 2y ago

Didn't geohot leave Comma like ~2 years ago

zeroq 2y ago
He left Coma for tinycorp the same way Elon left SpaceX for Twitter.
- Rebelgecko 2y ago
  Didn't Geohot also leave for twitter?
  - danpalmer 2y ago
    He was only at Twitter for a few weeks, maybe a few months before quitting because it turns out things are A Bit More Complicated Than That TM. This is one of the reasons why I would feel weird about entrusting my life to Comma.ai. I'm not that keen on Move Fast and Break Things when the things are my bones.
  - threeseed 2y ago
    He famously criticised the engineers there, joined, delivered basically nothing and then left.

melvyn2 2y ago

How many of those accomplishments were truly his, I wonder ? https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814 https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/109561314682149814

oldgradstudent 2y ago
The only thing the link contains is a bunch of people claiming that his achievements were built on other people's. Yet not even a single a achievement is mentioned by name, nor any specific detail is given. It's evidence for nothing.
- homarp 2y ago
  except marcan is https://archive.org/details/console-hacking-2010 https://archive.org/details/console-hacking-2010 not just 'a bunch of people'
  - lagniappe 2y ago
    marcan is at least 2 people
    - throawayonthe 2y ago
      [dead]
- NobodyNada 2y ago
  The next message in the thread gives specifics about the PS3 crack referenced in the parent: > Disclaimer: I have personal experience with him when he took the PS3 ECDSA fail research I and the other fail0verflow folks presented at CCC, and a couple weeks later released the PS3 metldr keys obtained using our method, with zero credit or reference to us. Then Sony sued us all because they assumed we were working with him, even though we'd been careful not to actually release any crypto keys precisely to avoid giving the lawyers excuses to sue us. > So yes, I was named as a defendant on a lawsuit with him, thanks to his antics. That wasn't a fun few months.

theolivenbaum 2y ago

You forgot to mention how he also single-handed solved search at Twitter /s