Today we’ve received word that common sense and practicality do not flow through the minds of California’s legal system — PS3 hacker Geohot had his temporary restraining order upheld. During this the next few weeks, Geohot is supposed to turn over any and all computer/electronic equipment used to hack the PS3 and release the tools in question, help other hackers continue his work, link or speak of the very act of PS3 jailbreaking, and pretty much anything...
Geohot is Sony’s new best enemy thanks to his efforts in giving back functionality to end users that Sony has stripped away. But it appears that while Sony whittles away at his finances and self image, a new friendship is being born. An “entrepreneur on loan” to Microsoft, @BrandonWatson, sent Geohot a tweet stating that the Windows Phone 7 development team would give him a Windows Phone 7 dev phone if he contacted the group via email — a bold, but...
George Hotz is one of the biggest news items in the tech world in there here and now. He is the little guy, a small time hacker who took down the iPhone, and has now taken down the PS3. Sony is a multi-billion dollar company who doesn’t like Geohot’s tinkering. A fight for generations to come for sure. The legal battle has already begun, with a recent court appearance ending with the judge questioning why the lawsuit was in her California court room. (George...
Perhaps the Fail0ver team had a bad night, lost a few too many rounds of poker, or maybe, just maybe, they are retaliating to Sony’s BS lawsuit over PS3 jailbreaking. (I’m going to go out on a limb and focus on the latter.) Regardless, the fail0verflow team has made their entire suite of tools available online and has even gone as far as to ask people to copy/download/redistribute/mirror said tools for future use. Looks like Sony is rattling the hornets...
The iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad may get the most attention when it comes to jailbreaking, but Apple’s little “hobby” device (Apple TV) is open to high tech hackery as well. All you need is a simple tool called Seas0nPass (Available here) and a few minutes to run through the instructions. Once you do, you’ll be rewarded with a more capable device. Though at this point, the features you can unlock with a jailbroken Apple TV are few and far between...
