[Pirate]

Well this may be disappointing news for many who were looking to Geohot to hack the PS3. Over the last few hours Geohot has announced his retirement from hacking. He posted on his Twitter "it was a cool ride, and i've learned a lot about a lot. perhaps one of these days i'll do a more formal goodbye." You will find now that his PS3, iPhone blog and Twitter page or no longer accessible.

I guess we can thank him for the removal of Linux and then letting us hang out there to dry.

Update, Another Tweet before blog shutdown:

Sorry, this post was probably a bad idea. Next time I won’t say anything. I miss when this blog was actually about technical things(I’ve been reacting too much to the feedback, which led it to the place it’s in now). I didn’t fully realize most of the current scene don’t care unless they are getting something. Now I do. It’s late tonight, I’ll think about what to do about this in the morning. The real reason behind no release isn’t technical. It’s just that it will never stop, after blackra1n, people demand unlock, after blacksn0w, people demand untethered. I miss the days when jailbreaking and unlocking were difficult, it attracted a much higher caliber crowd. Also, to the haters, the picture is quite obviously fake

[Testo94]

I hate that guy!!

[chronofurb]

****** bag. I called that months ago, the day he released the cryptic, useless, and utterly pointless "hack".


poke this Geohot, douch bag.

[gliitch]

Finally. What an egotistical good for nothing ******-bag. Clearly the PS3 was too much for him XD ha!

[jalaneme]

i agree, what a coward, someone should get his details and send it to authorities, not only was he a waste of time, he let the whole ps3 scene down too.

[KanYarK]

Not to mention he was one of the main reasons Sony removed OtherOS...We would have been better off if he didn't even lay his hands on a PS3.

[alex3305]

Originally Posted by KanYarK Not to mention he was one of the main reasons Sony removed OtherOS...We would have been better off if he didn't even lay his hands on a PS3.

+1, he ****ed it up for everyone!... Atleast until a 'real' hack surfaces from the GeoHot stuff... Than we will all thank him :/.

But it sure sucked that he showed of his 'CFW' and never released it...

[lion]

wow i cant believe this... last thing i heard about him was that he presented his ps3 hack in paris... and now this.

[xenno]

You guys should thank him NOT insult him.Geohot has contributed more to the ps3 scene than anyone else have and still you're calling him names because you were expecting something from him, that's pathetic and stupid!

By now you should have realized that this guy's a hacker and hackers do this kind of things for the challenge sake and not because they are expecting some basement dweller to scream, that they want CFW from them

so yeah use your brain next time and see how hard it is to actually exploit a system with multiply security layer before you start insulting someone who has succeeded with that :aetsch:

[chronofurb]

a real usable hack will never result from Geohot's case study. Its too primitive.