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Failure to understand hackers led to Sony security woes |
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Source: MSNBC - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The exploits of the hacker known as Geohot have been in the news for years, but to people outside the world of tech it has been more like a series of isolated events than one cohesive story. A new account by The New Yorker adds little information but binds the last five years of hacking into a single thread, showing convincingly that what has contributed most to companies' security woes has been an inability to understand the motivations of those who hack.
Sony has been a favorite target for hackers recently, and it all started when George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, opened up a PS3 to new uses. He wasn't sticking it to the man -- this kind of "jailbreaking" is a time-honored tradition among hackers, the epitome of man vs. machine.
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