George Hotz (aka Geohot) Employed by Facebook?

by Jeffry on June 26, 2011

iOS hacking mogul George Hotz, who was recently sued by Sony over PS3 Jailbreak is reportedly working at Facebook. Greenpois0n lead developer, p0sixninja confirmed it in a recent video podcast claiming that GeoHot backed out of the challenge (to find a bootrom exploit in A5 powered iPad 2) to work at his day job at Facebook.
Geohot Employed at Facebook

As noted by Techmeme’s Gabe Rivera, note the friends who have commented on his wall. Most of them works at Facebook – Sabretooth, Luke, Wei, Richard and many more. Even Geohot’s posted at Facebook.com/Geohot saying -

“is Facebook is really an amazing place to work…first hackathon over”.

In case you wish to watch the entire stream of the Q&A session with p0sixninja, watch the embedded video below.

At what position Geohot has joined is still unknown. But it is almost confirmed that he is working with Facebook, may be as a security head or may be developing facebook app for iOS devices. We will update you when we receive more information about him. Just follow on Twitter or become a Facebook fan. via [techunwrapped]

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