> 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
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.