The Saga of George "GeoHot" Hotz Has Reached its Only Natural Conclusion

Is this going to lead to more people openly hacking in hopes of getting jobs?

And in a non-related story, Facebook has made a statement that private information of everyone on they system was released to the internet right after the hiring of George Hotz to Trotz.

It seems like GeoHot had the last laugh. He is making money and Sony is losing it having to hire experts to secure their network. Not to mention the hit that the brand name took. Maybe Sony should have hired GeoHot instead of trying to bully him.

Hiring thievish arseholes is an excellent business strategy. 

What happen to the "gangsta 4 life" attitude? Kids these days. No respect.

I wouldn't trust this kid with a real "job", he seems to have this natural instinct to break and not build.

Let no scumbag go unrewarded.

And in a non-related story, Facebook has made a statement that private information of everyone on they system was released to the internet right after the hiring of George Hotz to Trotz.

I hope he does well, and that he doesn't come back into crime.  Going the straight and narrow might help him grow up a bit.  It's just too bad he probably won't be working on paid apps.  It'd be so ironic if he was the one having his shit stolen.

Hey guys let's rob a bank! We might get security jobs for them in the future!

This is what I picture the GB community looking like, just fatter.

alex, your articles continue to be hilarious, keep that up!

Ahh, the classic story of the computer hacker getting a legitimate job on the security side of things.  Heard that one a bazillion times and saw it coming miles away. 

He looks like an even dweebier version of Patrick Klepek. 
  
Sorry I've got nothing constructive to say about this. 

Guy gets job, story at 11.

thats great

wonder what he'll get up to from here on.

4th!  I guess it's time for people to crack into his apps.....

I hope he does well, and that he doesn't come back into crime.  Going the straight and narrow might help him grow up a bit.  It's just too bad he probably won't be working on paid apps.  It'd be so ironic if he was the one having his shit stolen.

Let that be a lesson to us all.

Well that's rather ironic. Kind of.

Over the last few months, we've had a bit of fun at the expense of George "GeoHot" Hotz, the floppy-haired, hip-hopping hackster who kicked off The Great PlayStation Network Kerfuffle of 2011 by cracking the PlayStation 3's firmware, releasing the tools for other people to do the same, getting sued by Sony over said tools, and thus inspiring a roving gang of Internet hooligans to start taunting and screwing with the console-maker.

Of course, the shit got a little more real when actual hackers stole actual vital information pertaining to actual PlayStation 3 users. At that point, the whole thing became a lot less funny. Well, Hotz's statements regarding that hack were pretty funny, actually. But the rest was totally serious business.

Anyway, after settling his lawsuit with Sony and making the aforementioned comments, Hotz went into radio silence mode. Evidently, that's because he went and got himself a real damn job.

Confirming a few rumors floating around late last week, Facebook representatives announced today that Hotz has gone to work for the company. His exact role at the company wasn't revealed, but it's presumed that he may be working in the company's mobile division, specifically on Facebook's upcoming iPad app. That would make some sense, given Hotz's previous proclivities toward jailbreaking iPhones.

It's actually a perfect fit, given Facebook head honcho Mark Zuckerberg's own history as an authority-mocking coder back in his college days. One could easily see the two of them becoming fast friends, going on coding dates together and curling each other's hair.

Still, that is a bit of an anticlimactic end to the antics of the gaming industry's own Dennis the Menace. Some of you out there almost assuredly were hoping for more of a Thelma & Louise type ending with Hotz's fellow lawsuit victim Alexander "Graf_Chokolo" Egorenkov (who is still being sued, by the way, and also probably will go to jail), but let's be realistic about this. A nice, quiet desk job at a major social media company is probably more reasonable.

Hey, maybe he can hook his buddy Alexander up with a job, too! You know, so he can pay his legal fees. And, like, not go to jail.