He sits in front of me. I'm surprised the news didn't leak out sooner. He's a cool dude. I don't see any of the perceived threats hinted in the comments.
Facebook snags Geohot
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Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#12In case you haven't seen it, here's an awesome story on how FB hired Chris Putnam:
http://www.quora.com/How-did-Chris-Putnam-get-hired-at-Faceb...
He hacked Facebook in 2005 and they hired him. From what I've heard he was one of their most invaluable engineers.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#13He sits in front of me. I'm surprised the news didn't leak out sooner. He's a cool dude. I don't see any of the perceived threats hinted in the comments.
Can you shed any light on what is role at Facebook is? My guess would be that he has been tasked with improving security.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#14Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for ... ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity. ... Who woulda thunk edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft f…
yeah he should live like richard stallman to preserve his saintly purity. /sarcasm.
dude is a great hacker. facebook is one of the greatest places to be a great hacker.
a perfect place? no. but what place is?
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#15Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for ... ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity. ... Who woulda thunk edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft f…
I don't have a facebook account, they don't own me. I surrender instead to other forces. ;P
What's with the anti-Facebook sentiment? It's worse than anti-Microsoft sentiments. Facebook does lots of cool stuff, a lot of it open source.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#16Lol!
AIUI, Geohot is basically forbidden from working with anything Sony.
So to the extent he becomes an essential part of the security team at Facebook, I guess Sony just lawsuited their way out of deep partnership opportunities with the biggest social media platform to date.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#17Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for ... ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity. ... Who woulda thunk edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft f…
I don't have a facebook account, they don't own me. I surrender instead to other forces. ;P What's with the anti-Facebook sentiment? It's worse than anti-Microsoft sentiments. Facebook does lots of cool stuff, a lot of it open source.
I think people resent how Facebook is trying to become the web, in similar way to how AOL did (remember when some companies advertised AOL keywords). They are doing this on top of a platform that is closed, and is mostly a black box for your data. That doesn't mean they don't produce some cool open source technologies, it just means they use them on massive closed source platform.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#18Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for ... ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity. ... Who woulda thunk edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft f…
I don't think it's fair to discuss any perceived moral problem around this. Facebook pays well and you get to work with some very smart people on a far-reaching product. That's a good job.
How does paying well and being full of nerds obviate a moral dilemma? If working for facebook is morally wrong (feel free to argue on this one), then neither of those conditions changes things. It can be both a smart move for geohot, as well as an immoral one.
Again, I'm not saying that working for facebook is bad. I'm saying that it's rightness or wrongness is not determined by how well they pay or how many geeks they employ.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#19Become a saint to nerds after taking on a company that wont let you do what you want with products you've paid for ... ends up at a company that in no human decipherable terms owns your social identity. ... Who woulda thunk edit: I think it's worth mentioning, I'm not decrying either he or facebook for their acquisition of talent, it's just an unexpected maneuver. Kind of like a physicist suddenly leaving his craft f…
You have to give Facebook credit for actively recruiting talent. Probably overpaying and distorting the labor market in SV even more than usual. Surprised Apple wouldn't try to hire him.
Apple certainly would have been the logical fit. Their response to his work suggested begrudging admiration more than Sony's outright hostility.
Re: Facebook snags Geohot
#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Everyone has a price, dude.
On top of that Geohot may have some past or future legal bills to pay ;-)
His past legal bills were paid by the thousands of donations he received to "fight the man", which he promptly...didn't. He shouldn't have any future ones unless he plans on engaging in more man-fighting.