iPhone and PS3 hacker George Hotz aka Geohot who has been off the limelight since the infamous Sony lawsuit is now working at Facebook according to p0sixninja of the Chronic dev team. The news was first uncovered by Tech Unwrapped and later verified by Gabe Rivera of Techmeme. He apparently joined Facebook in May and announced it on his Facebook profile on June 17th.
Geohot is famous in the iPhone hacking world for releasing popular jailbreaking and unlocking tools such as blacksn0w, blackra1n and limera1n.
It is not yet clear what is he working on at Facebook, but considering Geohot's expertise in discovering security holes, we assume that he may be working on the rumored Facebook Phone whose existence the company currently denies.
This is obviously bad news for the jailbreaking and unlocking scene. Geohot has a history of discovering exploits in iOS firmwares and there were some rumors that he was working on jailbreaking iPad 2.
Checkout the embedded video below of Joshua Hill (p0sixninja) mentioning Geohot's move to Facebook:
good for him, bad for unlock hopefuls!
Does not mean he will not be working iOS hacking anymore…
He just has a suposedly super job at FB which makes him a person with a good job, can still do stuff on the side….
Wait and See
I hope geo punch mark in the face for me
I think the same!!! I wanted to send it to him ;P
#hatefacebook
big whoop. GeoHot is a ego centric butt pirate
considering he hasnt been in the jb scene for quite a while it wont affect anyone.
Theer are pleanty of other talented groups out there who deserve credit for JB’ing such as DEV-team…
Soon Facebook will be jailbroken!
What a sell out.
who cares