@Jacanuk said:
Actually you are wrong, because he did circumvent the normal barriers that are in place to prevent people from most if not all dev tools. Normally a dev would just pull the dev code and thats that, but Quantic seem to love those shower scenes and if i recall there was also something about Heavy Rain and a shower scene.
But hackers do exist its just that most out there are nothing more than kids who found a program on the net and call themselves hackers. That how ever isent always the case and some like the guys who hacked the playstation or geohotz who broke the iphone are by the dictionary term a hacker.
Actually, the only thing I was wrong about is writing without citing proper sources since I cannot have my real life authority as a software engineer and computer scientist under a pseudonym, which I intend to keep. Even more so, I don't have the post count or Gamespot presence of some of the other members to have my word accepted as based in fact. Instead of giving you the good old condescending classic of "I'm a professional, trust me", let's start over. First of all, it is a common misconception what hackers are (or more appropriately, were). Hackers, by the widely accepted notion (of people who actually matter), were names appointed to many a computer enthusiast who were part of the early groups which were among the earliest adopters of computers, people into software development and making computers jump through hoops (testing their limits). There is also a duality of the term with security experts, mostly appointed by mainstream media from the same misunderstanding you come from, and most of them don't appreciate the title.
Even the most infamous "hacker" of them, Kevin Mitnick, was actually a phisher, a fraudulent person who played on people's trust and trust-generated stupidity. Find out more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phishing
Malicious computer engineers who tamper with software are actually called crackers. Cracker is any person who uses its knowledge to tamper with software in a way which circumvents the developer imposed restrictions by means of modifying the vanilla instructions of the software's executable or other binaries. This includes, like I mentioned before, unlawful scanning of the binary for decryption keys used internally to decrypt, decompress, decode and use actual assets which are the property of the developer. More over, the more fatal illegal action, is actual cracking and redistributing of software with its security layer broken. Nowadays, this is a tedious art which requires a lot of patience and even more luck to track down a decryption key, and most of it just comes down to an error on the developer's part. That's why the infamous illegal binaries are actually called "cracks". For the hacker term bit ambiguity, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(term) and go straight to the references. The guy you mention, geohot, who is a cracker, he's probably going away to the pen for some time for publishing the security decryption keys for Sony's platform, the PS3, which is a serious crime recognized by law in the US.
Don't trust a random guy on the internet, check. Even though I'm good for it.
So, which is the anonymous nude enthusiast?
Neither. As I said, and I checked this on more than one source which confirms from first parties ( Sony / Quantic Dream ) and third parties ( Respected gaming news websites ), he's neither. He's just an asshole, a person who was granted early access to a console and a version of the game that didn't fully remove the debug menu that with a little stupid luck granted him access to the said debug menu. Literally, an ingame debug menu. He had no contact with the actual files or has written tools to interpret them. He violated the trust put in the press by Sony and the 3rd party developer, Quantic Dream. And this incident will probably hamper future trust between media and developers, as they can't be trusted.
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