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George 'GeoHot' Hotz hired by massive technology company to work on a security initiative called 'Project Zero.'
George Hotz, a hacker who rose to fame for unlocking the iPhone and jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, has now been hired by Google to join a security initiative known as 'Project Zero.'
GeoHot the world famous hacker that first became known when he demoed the world's first unlocked iPhone on CNN, and then gather even more fame when it cracked open the PS3 console by posting on a 'scene' forum the famous v3.55 root key, giving us custom firmware and ending the earlier PS3 Jailbreak 'dongle era'.
Since the big Sony lawsuit settlement, GeoHot been floating around looking for something legit to do, and he worked for a few months at Facebook, but now seems to been hired by Google for this new project after winning earlier this year the 'Chrome Exploit' discovery award challenge.
"You should be able to use the web without fear that a criminal or state-sponsored actor is exploiting software bugs to infect your computer, steal secrets, or monitor your communications," Google's Chris Evans writes on the company's website. "Yet in sophisticated attacks, we see the use of 'zero-day' vulnerabilities to target, for example, human rights activists or to conduct industrial espionage. This needs to stop. We think more can be done to tackle this problem."
That's where Project Zero comes in. Google says the objective for this initiative is to "significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks." Evans added that Google is "hiring the best practically minded security researchers and contributing 100 percent of their time toward improving security across the Internet."
Evans writes that Project Zero's work will be conducted transparently. "Every bug we discover will be filed in an external database," he says. "We will only report bugs to the software's vendor--and no third parties."
Google's hiring of Hotz was not mentioned in Evans' blog post about Project Zero, but tech sites Ars Technica and Wired are both reporting the move. Hotz previously worked at Facebook.
What are your thoughts on this, are you going to feel safer in browsing the web, now that GeoHot is in on the job of making it secure?
NEWS SOURCE:
PS3 Hacker Gets a Top Security Job at Google (via) GameSpot
George 'GeoHot' Hotz hired by massive technology company to work on a security initiative called 'Project Zero.'
George Hotz, a hacker who rose to fame for unlocking the iPhone and jailbreaking the PlayStation 3, has now been hired by Google to join a security initiative known as 'Project Zero.'
GeoHot the world famous hacker that first became known when he demoed the world's first unlocked iPhone on CNN, and then gather even more fame when it cracked open the PS3 console by posting on a 'scene' forum the famous v3.55 root key, giving us custom firmware and ending the earlier PS3 Jailbreak 'dongle era'.
Since the big Sony lawsuit settlement, GeoHot been floating around looking for something legit to do, and he worked for a few months at Facebook, but now seems to been hired by Google for this new project after winning earlier this year the 'Chrome Exploit' discovery award challenge.
"You should be able to use the web without fear that a criminal or state-sponsored actor is exploiting software bugs to infect your computer, steal secrets, or monitor your communications," Google's Chris Evans writes on the company's website. "Yet in sophisticated attacks, we see the use of 'zero-day' vulnerabilities to target, for example, human rights activists or to conduct industrial espionage. This needs to stop. We think more can be done to tackle this problem."
That's where Project Zero comes in. Google says the objective for this initiative is to "significantly reduce the number of people harmed by targeted attacks." Evans added that Google is "hiring the best practically minded security researchers and contributing 100 percent of their time toward improving security across the Internet."
Evans writes that Project Zero's work will be conducted transparently. "Every bug we discover will be filed in an external database," he says. "We will only report bugs to the software's vendor--and no third parties."
Google's hiring of Hotz was not mentioned in Evans' blog post about Project Zero, but tech sites Ars Technica and Wired are both reporting the move. Hotz previously worked at Facebook.
What are your thoughts on this, are you going to feel safer in browsing the web, now that GeoHot is in on the job of making it secure?
NEWS SOURCE:
PS3 Hacker Gets a Top Security Job at Google (via) GameSpot
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