Android Hacker Koushik Dutta Denies Sony

Published on 03-19-2011 10:10 PM

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Sony has recently experienced some backlash stemming from their lawsuit with George Hotz. The Playstation 3 manufacturer has been scouring the back alley's of the internet in an attempt to find an underground hacker for their R&D Department. They found a prospective candidate in Android OS hacker Koushik Dutta (aka Koush) and extended to him an offer for a job interview. However, the response they received from him was not what they were expecting.

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Koush, who is most recently known for rooting the Android based Motorola XOOM, flat out declined Sony's request for an interview. He stated that due to Sony's recent treatment of fellow hacker geohot, he could not in good conscience work for them.

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Sony's Email:

Hello Koushik,
I’d like to introduce myself, my name is Sarah McRae and I work onsite for Sony PlayStation in the Talent Acquisition department. We came across your blog and thought we’d reach out to you to see if you’d ever be interested in exploring opportunities with us here at SCEA. I am in the process of opening a Software Engineer role within our R&D team and you may be a good fit. Please let me know if you’d be interested in talking on the phone to further discuss…

Koushik's Response:

Hi Sarah, I appreciate that you reached out to me. The opportunity does sound very interesting!
However, due [to] Sony’s recent treatment of a fellow hacker, George Hotz (@geohot), I could not in good conscience work at Sony.
Regards,
Koush

Source: Android Community

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31 Comments

Superman9383 - 03-19-2011, 10:35 PM
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Respect for this guy

hemmer - 03-19-2011, 10:36 PM
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HAHAHAHA ******g priceless... good luck sony

Do you think that sony stock will make for good toilet paper in the near future?

Dude go work for motorola they make the best ****! droid FTW

Superman9383 - 03-19-2011, 10:37 PM
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Totally bites Sony in the ***, maybe they'll realize

ihaxgames-PSG - 03-19-2011, 11:12 PM
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This is a few weeks old, just sayin

perspex - 03-19-2011, 11:13 PM
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koush dutta?...hey! its an indian xD

betrayed olive - 03-19-2011, 11:18 PM
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lol sony won't win. Threats don't work. So now there "bribing" so to say

One2thr456svn - 03-19-2011, 11:23 PM
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Stand up guy with principles right here. Mad Respect

Kishan Bhairosingh - 03-19-2011, 11:25 PM
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YOURE MY HOMIE KOESH

Live long and posper

caf - 03-19-2011, 11:37 PM
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Thats awesome. Old school cant be bought.

feylito285-PSG - 03-19-2011, 11:38 PM
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BURNED!
that is great, small jab to sony but it is a hit lol. I like it when we show unity.

Thorn - 03-20-2011, 12:23 AM
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old news is old but i never get sick of seeing it xD

DominatorAzab-PSG - 03-20-2011, 12:27 AM
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All my respect for this guy, this man is a great man who shows leadership, he also shows sony that violence is not the answer :P

medalcue - 03-20-2011, 12:53 AM
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I would have liked to see him accept a phone call to talk about it then tell Sony to F*CK off and give his reasons why.. Then post that online!

Portland-PSG - 03-20-2011, 01:35 AM
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**** that i would have taken it if the pay was good

Angel Diaz - 03-20-2011, 02:38 AM
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Respect fot that man

karma is a *****, isn't it sony?

NickDG - 03-20-2011, 04:55 AM
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Nice!!!!!! max respect bru , from here all the way down south , Cape Town , South Africa

Lestat-PSG - 03-20-2011, 05:30 AM
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Hey!! we already have an MKV media player for the PS3 and you aren't posting it? GO GO GO, the media player is called "Showtime media player"

Erikih-PSG - 03-20-2011, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted by ihaxgames

This is a few weeks old, just sayin

Luckaly im not the only one who was thinking about that. I remembered that i read that on maxconsole.