Congratulations folks, you made it onto Slashdot. The technical community have seen your blatant display of small-mindedness, and are laughing so hard the tears are pooling on the carpet. Firstly, Geohot didn't release any software to promote piracy on the PS3. Geohot obtained, though exploitation of idiotic coding practices by Sony, the root keys for firmware signing. This allowed someone, with the appropriate knowledge, to sign and install their own custom firmware onto the console. Geo...
Congratulations folks, you made it onto Slashdot. The technical community have seen your blatant display of small-mindedness, and are laughing so hard the tears are pooling on the carpet. Firstly, Geohot didn't release any software to promote piracy on the PS3. Geohot obtained, though exploitation of idiotic coding practices by Sony, the root keys for firmware signing. This allowed someone, with the appropriate knowledge, to sign and install their own custom firmware onto the console. Geo...