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Quote: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.

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

Bluehost maintains Hotz’s geohot.com site. The approved subpoena requires the company to turn over “documents reproducing all server logs, IP address logs, account information, account access records and application or registration forms” tied to Hotz’s hosting. The Bluehost subpoena also demands “any other identifying information corresponding to persons or computers who have accessed or downloaded files hosted using your service and associated” with the http://www.geohot.com website, including but not limited to the “geohot.com/jailbreak.zip file.”

Quote:“I think the these subpoenas, the information they seek, is inappropriate,” said Corynne McSherry, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. In a letter to Magistrate Spero, she termed the subpoenas “overly broad.” (.pdf)

The judge also signed off on a Google subpoena seeking the logs for Hotz’s Blogger.com blog, geohotps3.blogspot.com.

A YouTube subpoena, also approved, seeks information connected to the “geohot” account that displayed a video of the hack being used: “Jailbroken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew.” The subpoena demands data to identify who watched the video and “documents reproducing all records or usernames and IP addresses that have posted or published comments in response to the video.”

A fourth subpoena is directed at Twitter, demanding the disclosure of all of Hotz’s tweets, and “documents sufficient to identify all names, addresses, and telephone numbers associated with the Twitter account.”

Sony has threatened to sue anybody who posts the hacking tools or the encryption key. It is seeking unspecified damages from Hotz.

A hearing on whether Hotz will be tried in San Francisco or New Jersey is set for next month in San Francisco federal court.

- Source: [Wired]

Hoo boy. Draconian measures, draconian measures everywhere.
Sony should be a little more discreet about this sort of thing; Microsoft deals with xbox hackers by permabanning the consoles quietly. Sony should follow suit and simply quietly ban console IDs from the PSN.
More effective, less damaging to corporate image and less drama-y.

Doesn't Sony have anything better to do than worry about the security of the PS3. I mean they're more than a video game company anyway.

Silvertie Wrote: [ -> ]Hoo boy. Draconian measures, draconian measures everywhere.
Sony should be a little more discreet about this sort of thing; Microsoft deals with xbox hackers by permabanning the consoles quietly. Sony should follow suit and simply quietly ban console IDs from the PSN.
More effective, less damaging to corporate image and less drama-y.

You know Sorny is the attention whore, Microsoft is the silent but deadly one, and Nintendo is the laid back best friend. Sorny goes "AWWWW SHIT" and has to set off flares with this kinda poo poo.

Sparker Wrote: [ -> ]Doesn't Sony have anything better to do than worry about the security of the PS3. I mean they're more than a video game company anyway.

No.

Srs business.

trademark91 Wrote: [ -> ]

Personally, I think it's still all their scare campaign.
Basically, trying to get the image out there: if you hack our systems, be prepared to have your life made a whole lot more difficult by us.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote: [ -> ]Personally, I think it's still all their scare campaign.
Basically, trying to get the image out there: if you hack our systems, be prepared to have your life made a whole lot more difficult by us.

ill get the image out there:

OH MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT THING?!

/scrolls up page

OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD OH GAWD

* ZiNgA BuRgA runs