It seems it has been the PS3 which cracked the hacker, and not the hacker the PS3 – the major force behind cracking the PS3 has given up and retired in circumstances few could help but interpret as an abject admission of defeat at the hands of Sony engineers.
Obnoxious celebrity cracker Geohotz has “retired” from hacking rather than face the shame of defeat it would appear – far from delivering an update in his famed battle with the PS3 firmware, instead all he delivered was a terse notice of resignation and some bitter whining about people “taking this way too seriously”:
“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.”
With the PS3 still completely unhacked halfway through its lifespan, and any crack likely still years in the making, it seems any eventual hacking will be too late to make much difference – quite the coup for Sony.
The credibility of Geohotz was already at an all time low after he admitted distributed a fake picture suggesting he had hacked the iPhone 4, as he did so successfully to the former model – little wonder he felt the need to retire:
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.
Apparently he is far more obtuse than he is usually given credit for – it seems self-evident that the only reason his fans care about his antics is the opportunity for piracy it offers them.
Or else this is merely a crude attempt to deflect attention away from two abject failures in a row, coming on the heels of some typically egotistical hacker posing which led his followers to believe it was merely a matter of time before they were happily downloading “backup” Blu-ray ISOs for their freshly cracked PS3s…
Heh…
How amusing that many posters here exaltate the “need” for a hacked PS3…
Are you all that much of losers that can’t earn enough bucks to buy your own stuff? … LAUGHABLE…
Even begging for money on the street would eventually net you enough to legitimately buy one game.
A whole lotta you still rely on your folks for food & living expenses, get them to pay for your hobby & yet ya still need to pirate games? Pfft… Lawsers…
Lay off on cigarettes/alcohol, take your own lunch to school/college, go mow a few yards, wash cars or run errands for a little cash & you’ll buy a new game each week guaranteed… But I bet ya all lawsers can’t be bothered to actually get off yer lazy butts & stop wasting time which could be used to earn money for games or computer parts simply ‘cuz ya all have an appointment to join a team of WoW on a quest.
pfft spoken like a true small minded american come back and talk to me when one of your games cost 500 bucks, unless “Lawsers” is like some new secret slang for a compliment you’re trying to bring into style on the internet in which case disregard my remark
I would love to have the pillow in that picture – it looks to fluffy and comfortable!
I wouldn’t say no to the girl either, but my god that pillow!
I bet all my ps3 games (none) that will remain uncrackable for at least 10 years.
One thing I have learned over the years, is you can't fake being what you ain't for very long, as what you ain't is going to be an unknown.
I personally don't care if people think I am 48 or not. Not vital in my life. I can't fake being a teen for a reason, I have no idea what is 'cool' any more in the teen world. My son is always showing me things online, gags etc, goes right over my head.
I for instance couldn't care less about subscribing to guys on Youtube like he does. It's not me.
He shows me this dumb 'blueberry pied' the other day, I wasn't even aware it was the latest rick roll till he explained it.
The thing is, it's just not funny, the humour is flat. Oh you made me watch a pointless video, how does that compared to being streaked?
Now THAT was a gag.
I doubt any of you kids even have the stones needed to do a streak stunt. Especially as you actually have to do it in person, the real you, not on Youtube with a mask handy.
Uncrackable no nothing is uncrackable if he doesn’t do it someone else will.