Didn't he do what he always does. Rake in a ton of money, fart around and then cash out exclaiming it's everyone else's fault?
The way he stole Fail0verflow's work with the PS3 security leak after failing to find a hypervisor exploit for months absolutely soured any respect I had for him at the time
To be fair, kernel crashes from running an AMD provided demo loop isn’t something he should have to work with them on. That’s borderline incompetence. His perspective was around integration into his product, where every AMD bug is a bug in his product. They deserve criticism, and responded accordingly (actual resources to get their shit together). It’s not like GPU accelerated ML is some new thing.
That's a tough issue to read through, thanks for the link. 'Your demo code on a system setup exactly as you describe dereferences null in the kernel and falls over'. Fuzz testing + a vaguely reasonable kernel debugging workflow should make things like that much harder to find.
> The way he stole Fail0verflow's work with the PS3 security leak after failing to find a hypervisor exploit for months absolutely soured any respect I had for him at the time
That sounds interesting. I tried googling about it but can't really find much other than that failoverflow found a key and didn't release it, and then geohot released his own subsequently. I'd love to hear more about how directly he "stole" the work from the Fail0verflow team.
edit: Reading some sibling comments here, it seems you are either mistaken and/or were exaggerating your claim about the "theft" here. As far as I can tell, he simply took their findings and made his own version of an exploit that they had detailed publicly. That may be in poor taste in this particular community but it's certainly not theft. I do agree that his behavior there was lacking in decency, but not to the degree implied here where I was thinking he _literally_ stole their exploit by hacking them, or something similar to that.
People here generally try to bash people who are much smarter than them, throwing shade at their background. They will say that he abandoned his first company, gave up on tiny grad but both of them are very much alive projects
Marcan (of Asahi Linux fame) has talked about it many times before. But an abridged version
Fail0verflow demoed how they were able to derive the private signing keys for the Sony Playstation 3 console at I believe CCC
Geohot after watching the livestream raced into action to demo a "hello world!" jailbreak application and absolutely stole their thunder without giving any credit
This apparently worked pretty well for him, as I still remember him primarily as "that guy who hacked PS3". Some people let someone else do the hard technical core, then do all the other easy but boring stuff and claim 100% credit.
I remember geohot as being one of the people who developed a fairly successful jailbreak for iPhone. I understand that iPhone jailbreaking is often standing on the shoulders of predecessors, but I believe he does deserve significant credit for at least one popular iPhone jailbreak.
Are you interested in being factually correct, or are you interested in hating? If it's the former, I think you should do some research. If it's the latter, :salute:
The way he stole Fail0verflow's work with the PS3 security leak after failing to find a hypervisor exploit for months absolutely soured any respect I had for him at the time