U.S. District Judge Susan Illston has ruled that George Hotz must allow Sony access to sift through his PC’s hard drive, according to Wired, in order to find traces of how Hotz managed to hack the PS3’s security.
“I find probable cause that your client has got these things on his computer,” said Illston, although she makes it clearly that Sony can only look for the stuff that’s relevant to the case.
“It’s a problem when more than one thing is kept on the computer. I’ll make sure the order is and will be that Sony is only entitled to isolate … the information on the computer that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation.”
Although hacking mobile phones is technically lawful under the DMCA in the US, other copyrighted works don’t fall under the same umbrella, although Hotz’ lawyer doesn’t agree. “The conduct Mr. Hotz has engaged in is still covered by the DMCA,” he said.
In addition to this court order, Sony has been sending out an “undisclosed” number of DMCA takedown notices to websites that have published the code.
We assume these takedowns won’t venture as far as marketing figure Kevin Butler.
cc_star
I would find it quite funny if Geohot had some security on his PC that meant Sony had to circumvent it (break the DMCA) to gain access.
cc_star
*ironic
jayjay119
Would that even be a possibility considering they have been given legal persmission to access it?
Uhyve
If it’s encrypted, in England, it’s illegal to withhold the password. In the US (afaik), it’s actually fine to do that, something to do with having the right to not incriminate yourself.
amiga_dude
Alright the law in UK that could be used to get you to disclose a password is called Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act.
It can only be used in criminal law, it has no use in civil law.
So no that could not get you to disclose the password unless it involved the police.
Uhyve
Ah, I didn’t know that, that’s nice.
bigdon23
Just because sony have been granted access doesnt mean they know how,
would be funny if he had some sort of security that if they pressed the wrong key they had 10 seconds to type a passeord before the machine caught fire
amiga_dude
http://www.Truecrypt.org
Anyone? I would of just done it to be ironic.
Foxhound_Solid
Lets hope he in ‘cahoots’ with Gary Glitter or his day is about to get a lot worse….
Pirates = Cnuts!!!
LivedeviL
Being in “Cahoots” would surely mean his day IS going to get worse not better… :)
Foxhound_Solid
Yep, thats what i meant dude,
merci
jmg24bad
Geohot porn galore
cc_star
This is why hackers should live like Gene Hackman in Enemy Of The State, things should have exploded long before now
bigdon23
classic film, great and scary at the same time
Awayze
Going through his pc hard drive shouldn’t be allowed or it should have been long destroyed or given to someone to hide.
MaD dOctoR 79
…says the pirate
:) just kidding :)
you must have way too much porn on your HDD to make that comment…
…I’ve got just enough ;)
Galgomite
Given weeks of warning, is there some reason why he’d still have relevant info on “his computer?”
Wing-Sabre
Surely someone with the technical expertise like geohotz despite being misguided is smart enough not to keep his important law breaking data on a hdd i would of thought a cloud account or online storage would of been a better choice.
bigdon23
why do sony want to do this? are they really that clueless at how he did it??????????
DuffyBox
Surely it’s much better simply to legally compel Hotz to tell Sony how he did it? He couldn’t lie as they would just check. If he has multiple ways of doing it and witholds one, he escapes BUT if he’s stupid enough to release THAT (he isn’t) then Sony can bomb his drive.
jediryan123
lawyered!