George Hotz MEMBER_OF Plaid Parliament of Pwning
George Hotz joined PPP to play CTFs with the team.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 43 Details
“George joined.”
“we quickly were like okay, you need to play CTFs with us”
Person
person:george_hotz
Also: Geohot, George Holt, George Hots, geohot
Hacker known in the episode as Geohot; later joined PPP and participated in its CTF activity.
Hacker known in the episode as Geohot; later joined PPP and participated in its CTF activity.
“George ended up at Carnegie Mellon for a little while”
“George joined.”
Security researcher and hacker who competed in Pwn2Own and is associated in the episode with iPhone jailbreaking, PlayStation modification, and self-driving-car software.
“George Hotz has competed in this and walked away with prize money multiple times.”
Person identified in the episode as geohot, associated with publicly posting a PlayStation 3 root key.
“if you remember George Hotz, he found the original — what they called a root key for the PlayStation 3”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| outgoing | MEMBER_OF | Plaid Parliament of Pwning | Explicit | 43 |
| outgoing | USES | Reverse engineering | Explicit | 43 |
| outgoing | DISCOVERED_BY | root key | Explicit | 136 |
| outgoing | ASSOCIATED_WITH | Sony | Explicit | 136 |
George Hotz MEMBER_OF Plaid Parliament of Pwning
George Hotz joined PPP to play CTFs with the team.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 43 Details
“George joined.”
“we quickly were like okay, you need to play CTFs with us”
George Hotz USES Reverse engineering
George Hotz is described as having reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 43 Details
“George reverse-engineered the PlayStation 3”
George Hotz DISCOVERED_BY root key
George Hotz found what was described as the original PlayStation 3 root key and posted it publicly.
Explicit Direction flagged Confidence 99% · Gary Bowser EP 136 Details
“he found the original — what they called a root key for the PlayStation 3”
George Hotz ASSOCIATED_WITH Sony
Sony pursued legal action against George Hotz after he publicly posted the PlayStation 3 root key.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Gary Bowser EP 136 Details
“Sony cracked down hard. They went after geohot”