Judge Grants Sony Access to GeoHot’s HDD

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In the Battle of Sony vs GeoHot there have been small victories and minor defeats for the console maker. Today, one of those minor victories was won by Sony. The judge presiding over the matter granted Sony the access to GeoHot's HDD which houses all of his data including all of the data used for jailbreaking the PS3. Sony was granted this access for a number of reasons. First, the DMCA states that it is illegal to traffic in devices that circumvent controls meant to protect copyrighted works.

What Sony will be looking for on his HDD is anyone's guess, and if in its original state Sony will likely find the code they are looking for. The judge likened it to a case of child pornography, where Sony would have access to Hotz's personal information in order to find what they are looking for in the case against him.

This is among the other requests that Sony has made to Judge Illston to force the surrender of IP addresses and other identifying information of those who have viewed or commented about the jailbreak video upon it's release.

http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/judge-grants-sony-access-geohots-hdd/

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InkPosted:

wow sucks for GeoHot.

I sure hope he dont have anything dirty on thay HDD o.o

ThingPosted:

rayanXxX how old is this dude ?
I think he is only like around 20.

TTG_M3RKZxPosted:

must be one sik hacker lol

ZionPosted:

Feargoyle My guess is that it will be encrypted, if the judges says to decrypt the files he should say he can't remember how


I'd like to see Sony rage while trying hundreds of algorithms, to find that his HDD had nothing unexpected on it.

FeargoylePosted:

My guess is that it will be encrypted, if the judges says to decrypt the files he should say he can't remember how

M24SNIPESPosted:

Leave it to Sony. There console is destroyed and they are taking GeoHot with em.

DidPosted:

Sony is just stupid!

rayanXxXPosted:

how old is this dude ?

Thirsty4killsPosted:

so whats going to happen no more jailbreak break for ps3 with 3.56 firmware

adamladd10Posted:

TTG-MITCHELL wow, i think its kinda sad that they had to do this

Sony just cant take it that they cant make a console secure enough!?