> Also, George Hotz endangered the welfare of a few people who had kindly gotten us access to some documentation in Japanese despite repeated pleas not to do so. Very frustrating and why the dev team all eventually stopped working on the project.
Would love any elaboration on this that you can provide which wouldn't expose you to a libel suit.
Honestly I just remember careful coordination about what information / code / artifacts to release from the private IRC channel and when. He ignored the consensus a bunch of times which lead to demoralization and people leaving.
I’ll never know how real the threat to peoples jobs were but I don’t think they were being overly cautious.
Given his later actions with the Playstation 3 where he watched Fail0verflow's CCC presentation, then immediately pushed the first "Hello World!" firmware patch just so he could say he did. Immediately landing the entire team in hot water as Sony (understandably) assumed they were related parties
Geohot seems to have a history of throwing other people under the bus to score "victories" for attention
this was my experience so i was not surprised to read about the ps3 stuff. about 8 or 9 years ago i made a comment somewhere in the depths of HN with more information. honestly i dont really care about GH so much as I wish other people who were kind and brilliant got the attention and credit they deserve
It's tough because those events are exactly why GH "got the attention". People who kind and brilliant don't tend to beg for the spotlight, especially when working in greyhat matters like this.
Would love any elaboration on this that you can provide which wouldn't expose you to a libel suit.