[akela]

Famous iPhone Hacker George Hotz Has Left Facebook. 24/01/2012 - YouTube

After hacking into Sony's Playstation 3, George Hotz was hired by Facebook last June.

That gig didn't last long. He no longer works there.

So what is he doing in his free time?

Hacking.

Hotz was anything but bored at Backplane, a startup funded by Lady Gaga, where we ran into him this past Saturday. He told me he appreciated the space and the free pizza.

When Hotz waltzed in the door at Backplane, he introduced himself as the hacker who was sued by Sony, but he's most famous for releasing software that allows smartphone users to jailbreak their iPhone.

During the hackathon, I got to work with him as he built an app that allows you to see where your Facebook friends are on a map.

Aviv Ovadya, a Quora engineer, was also on the team. Ovadya focused on the front end mapping part of the program. Hotz was focused on getting the API info and programming that into location data. I helped advise them on its design and focused on documenting the process (see video footage below).

Hotz worked on making the map prettier, by making the actual photos of his Facebook profile friends appear. Another hacker suggested that Hotz filter the results by gender. So Hotz coded it to sort by female or male.

The app didn't win -- it lost out to a group of high school students.

source: businessinsider

[superfurry]

Someone posted this earlier mate , and again I would say who cares about that brat

[Persian McLovin]

lol at his hair and argh, that monotonous annoying girl "like, a relli faymouse hakorrr, he's totally like, hacking stuff like teh So-nee plaistaishun"...JUST STFU!!!

[robertuk]

Geohot should NOT be trusted. He made a deal with the devil (Sony) and if he comes around you are taking chances by talking to him. Well, unless he releases the master of all keys (on his own), but you know, he didn't as soon as Sony came knocking.

[superfurry]

Who really gives a **** what the little Bellend does , half the people round here wanna bum him. In not surprised half the developers get pissed off when you got every 17 year old boy on forums trying to luck your arse. As for geohotz, as I said BELLEND

[OoZic]

Originally Posted by robertuk Geohot should NOT be trusted. He made a deal with the devil (Sony) and if he comes around you are taking chances by talking to him. Well, unless he releases the master of all keys (on his own), but you know, he didn't as soon as Sony came knocking.

Please remove the commercial advertisement picture from your sig.....

[robertuk]

Originally Posted by OoZic Please remove the commercial advertisement picture from your sig.....

Oh, I'm sorry bro. I didn't think that Pirate would mind me linking to an advertisement on the main domain, but the whole "ad" thing was lame. I've changed my signature to reflect my state of mind after some coffee and eggs and not after a half of scotch.