Geohot donated $10,000 to the EFF!

[The Central Scrutinizer]

Geohot has kept his word and donated the donations from his legal fund, plus some extra, to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Hopefully the EFF will step up and help Graf_Chokolo with his case in Germany now.

SCEA vs Hotz
Saturday, April 16, 2011
$10,000 to the EFF
As promised, all left over legal defense money, plus a little to bump it to a nice number, has been sent to the EFF. Thank you all so much for your support, without it, things could have been much worse.

This money goes to the EFF in hopes that America can one day again be a shining example of freedom, free of the DMCA and ACTA, and that private interest will never trump the ideas laid out in the constitution of privacy, ownership, and free speech.

At the end of the day, something I take comfort in. The PS3 got OWNED.
"Once the code works they'll never be able to take it away from us."

Will you be continuing your work on Sony products anonymously?
Nah. As much as I don't respect the goons at Sony, I do respect the court.

Will future research on Sony products be chilled?
Nah. If you piss them off enough for them to pull out the legal team and their million dollar checkbook, worst thing that happens is you have to super swear to never do it again.

Will Sony do a better job with security next time?
LOL, I think they'll do a lot worse. It wouldn't surprise me if the people who did PS3 security were fired. And I'm curious as to who Sony is hiring for NGP security. Lawyers? Get the code to sign a contract that it won't have exploits? You shouldn't piss off the community of people who are actually talented at this stuff. Hell, maybe you even pissed off your engineering employees enough to leave some nice backdoors?

Source : geohot got sued: $10,000 to the EFF

Thanks to xPreatorianx, puddin10, _zaphod_, and everyone else who submitted news.

[oldirtdog]

finally some news about this guy nobody will bitch about.

that didn't take long...

inb4lock

[AlexDC22]

it should have been sent to graf.

[bennyboi2005]

it should have been sent to graf.

i was waiting for this theres allways one!

fair play to the kid kept his promise

[ken_oh]

bet all the people that were flaming are shocked now



but yh wow.. who knows how much this guy was originally sent

[Freakman]

Im just being realistic here. He got hundred bills sticking out of this pockets.

[matt902]

it should have been sent to graf.

Don't be foolish.Graf isn't registered to issue tax reciepts for donations.

[xPreatorianx]

Sweet my news got posted! I'm glad geohot did donate to the EFF. I may not like the way he ended the case but I apologized to him for bashing him. I still don't like him at all(again I'm PO'd about the case.) but he kept up to his word on the donations and that's all that matters in the end.

[Zongyo]

Well this should at least deal with the idiots who actually think he used that money for his Brazil trip.

[paul44]

At least now I know my donation got put to good use! I was waiting for this moment!