Now before you call me a retard, claim Hotz was a hero and willing martyr, and tell me to go screw myself, listen and think with me on this. Okay, we all know George Hotz, the infamous GeoHotz who stormed the city of PS3, laid waste to the guards, and gave the city's dark secrets to the people now that is was defeated. From the ashes he claimed the treasure of the PS3 source code and gave it to the people as Caesar with his fortune. Unfortunately, everyone now had access to PS3's software.
Until than, PS3 was probably the only console that hasn't been hacked, it's secrets were still unknown. Sony built the PS3 like a city in the old days, only witha few faults. Sony built this great big wall around the software, almost no one could break it down so they didn't feel the need to defend the interior as heavily. They believed the PS3 could NOT be hacked, it was like Ba Sing Se combined with the city of Jericho. They were right until GeoHotz broke the walls and got the code that MADE the PS3 and gave it to everyone. Everyone now had the sacred code, the PS3's entire software was now vulnerable. Since Geo found and posted the code that made ALL of the PS3's software, it was incredibly vulnerable. That's probably why Sony tried to sue Geo, but they couldn't tell the media why because that would plant seeds in hackers heads on what to do with the code, it'd be like a bank going," hey, we're closed for Christmas but we're leaving everyone a key, also the security guards won't notice you there either since they all had LASIK and Cochlear implants. We trust all of you, especially you folks in the organized crime ring, to not go into the unprotected and vulnerable bank with a key out in the open and steal all of our money, that cool with you guys?". They couldn't just come out and say that the key to all our data was now out to the world, because than everyone would use it to screw us over, and they couldn't tell GeoHotz in public court because they feared someone there would make that known to the public, so they had to settle with Hotz out of court in private and also tell them why this was happening, the settlement was a "shut it" fee to ensure he wouldnt tell the world and know what could happen. Unfortunately, it was out on the web and those who realized the value of this code managed to copy it before it was removed. I'm not saying we should flame GeoHotz for soving the unsolvable and trying to put Linux on a PS3, and we shouldn't sue Sony for their faith in a powerful wall, it's the hackers fault but GeoHotz unknowingly gave the wrong people the key code. Nobody but Sony could have predicted how much power the code had and what it could do if left in the open, especially not GeoHotz.
If GeoHotz was brought in court for this, he could plea insanity because he had no idea what the code was capable of and what people would use it for. He assumed people would just install their own preferred OS and do stuff that the PS3 OS couldn't handle, he had no idea that people would basically go 9/11 on PSN and claim personal data from the rubble.
Until than, PS3 was probably the only console that hasn't been hacked, it's secrets were still unknown. Sony built the PS3 like a city in the old days, only witha few faults. Sony built this great big wall around the software, almost no one could break it down so they didn't feel the need to defend the interior as heavily. They believed the PS3 could NOT be hacked, it was like Ba Sing Se combined with the city of Jericho. They were right until GeoHotz broke the walls and got the code that MADE the PS3 and gave it to everyone. Everyone now had the sacred code, the PS3's entire software was now vulnerable. Since Geo found and posted the code that made ALL of the PS3's software, it was incredibly vulnerable. That's probably why Sony tried to sue Geo, but they couldn't tell the media why because that would plant seeds in hackers heads on what to do with the code, it'd be like a bank going," hey, we're closed for Christmas but we're leaving everyone a key, also the security guards won't notice you there either since they all had LASIK and Cochlear implants. We trust all of you, especially you folks in the organized crime ring, to not go into the unprotected and vulnerable bank with a key out in the open and steal all of our money, that cool with you guys?". They couldn't just come out and say that the key to all our data was now out to the world, because than everyone would use it to screw us over, and they couldn't tell GeoHotz in public court because they feared someone there would make that known to the public, so they had to settle with Hotz out of court in private and also tell them why this was happening, the settlement was a "shut it" fee to ensure he wouldnt tell the world and know what could happen. Unfortunately, it was out on the web and those who realized the value of this code managed to copy it before it was removed. I'm not saying we should flame GeoHotz for soving the unsolvable and trying to put Linux on a PS3, and we shouldn't sue Sony for their faith in a powerful wall, it's the hackers fault but GeoHotz unknowingly gave the wrong people the key code. Nobody but Sony could have predicted how much power the code had and what it could do if left in the open, especially not GeoHotz.
If GeoHotz was brought in court for this, he could plea insanity because he had no idea what the code was capable of and what people would use it for. He assumed people would just install their own preferred OS and do stuff that the PS3 OS couldn't handle, he had no idea that people would basically go 9/11 on PSN and claim personal data from the rubble.
