<![CDATA[Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site]]>

<![CDATA[Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site]]>A federal magistrate is granting Sony the right to acquire the internet IP addresses of anybody who has visited PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’s website from January of 2009 to the present.

Thursday’s decision by Magistrate Joseph Spero to allow Sony to subpoena Hotz’s web provider (.pdf) raises a host of web-privacy concerns.

Respected for his iPhone hacks and now the PlayStation 3 jailbreak, Hotz is accused of breaching the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and other laws after he published an encryption key and software tools on his website that allow Playstation owners to gain complete control of their consoles from the firmware on up.

Sony also won subpoenas (.pdf) for data from YouTubeand Google, as part of its lawsuit against the 21-year-old New Jersey hacker, as well as Twitteraccount data linked to Hotz, who goes by the handle GeoHot.

]]>http://localhost:4567/topic/3026/judge-lets-sony-unmask-visitors-to-ps3-jailbreaking-siteRSS for NodeSat, 13 Jun 2026 18:45:41 GMTSat, 05 Mar 2011 10:28:36 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Judge Lets Sony Unmask Visitors to PS3-Jailbreaking Site on Sat, 05 Mar 2011 10:35:33 GMT]]>GeoHot ftw. Government ftl. This is 100% illegal what Sony is doing.

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