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I have added the COI template because I am concerned that the article creator has an interest in the article that should be considered due to his or her status as a student at the same academy the subject attended. Erechtheus 00:41, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
I don't see a bias in the article....Good to go. Snotrockets13 08:06, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
The article does not resemble an encyclopedic entry —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.104.242 (talk) 03:26, August 25, 2007 (UTC)
This article is recent news (ie old news) rather than significant knowledge for an encyclopedia. The knowledge used for the hack would be more relevant to wikipedia. 194.112.32.101 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.112.32.101 (talk) 22:04, August 29, 2007 (UTC)
Please do not remove a deletion request, before the seven days are over
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This article was nominated for deletion on 2008-02-01. The result of the discussion was keep.
Dr.K. logos 19:04, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
It is of no value whatsoever. Recent news now equals old news tomorrow. Now if we were to make an article for every hacker out there.... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.113.126.219 (talk) 17:56, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
He's definitely a significant hacker. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.85.93 (talk) 10:19, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
I agree, delete this. This kid doesn't deserve any recognition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.65.80.183 (talk) 10:01, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
Should anything about the "Balloon Contest" be added? Salaxoraxas (talk) 23:55, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
Did some work in the article. Discuss. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.79.141.228 (talk) 21:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
Are You Kidding Me ? :-L
wikipedia ?? :)) SPAMpeda is better ...
There is no Acceptable References —Preceding unsigned comment added by Newvgac12 (talk • contribs) 13:10, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
This article contains too many weasel words and doesn't meet Wikipedia's standards so I added a cleanup tag. Niazac (talk) 23:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Who added him to the people of asian descent? Remove it. He's Jewish. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.135.68 (talk) 11:14, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
Granted he's not asian, but Jewish is a religion, Asian refers to a person from asia. You can be an asian jew, just like you can be a muslim American or a somalian buddhist. It just makes you sound ignorant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.7.85.93 (talk) 10:17, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
In fact, since Israel is situated on the Asian continent, you can technically say that according to their religion, all Jews are from Asia, since they all come from Israel. (Of course, that's not what people normally refer to as Asian, but...) Ratfox (talk) 20:04, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
I've added the ((cleanup)) tag because the format of this article is atrocious. It reads like a diary, not like an encyclopedia article. Rossami (talk) 19:35, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
With ALL the information available on George Hotz, it's completely ridiculous that this article is in such bad shape.
There is absolutely none of his history here, no accurate account of the creation of the iphone hack, and very few sources cited for the little inaccurate information that is posted.
George Hotz did NOT single-handedly develop the iphone hack OR the PS3 hack.
And there should at the very LEAST be a weak attempt at a biography.
I admire the work that he's done (though I don't like him enough to write his biography without getting paid for it).
But I'm sure SOMEBODY out there must care enough to update this page. Either the man himself or some delusional teenage girl.
...or where the hell are the World of Warcraft people when you need them?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.8.116.80 (talk • contribs) February 23, 2011
I have removed the listing of George Hotz as having fled the country to South America as there is no proof in anyway that this has actually happened. His offical website (http://geohotgotsued.blogspot.com/2011/03/fearmongering.html) has proved that he is just on vacation. Speculation should not be listed on articles. Thanks, --Darkskynet (talk) 00:21, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
"Sony hit him with a lawsuit and demanded social media sites, including YouTube to hand over IP addresses of people who visited Geohot's social pages/videos"
That's not exactly correct and leaves out a lot of important information. It doesn't mention that the court order for the Youtube information ONLY applies to the users that watched his video after he made it private. See the excerpt below:
"This subpoena seeks to discover information regarding all persons who currently have access to a “private video” uploaded by Mr. Hotz demonstrating his use of the circumvention devices on the PS3 System, and those who posted comments in response to the video."
So, it only applies to those who watched the instructional video after it was made PRIVATE. It does not apply to ALL his videos as implied, so if you watched his rap video, you're clear.99.231.120.164 (talk) 22:03, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
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Glen Rock is in New Jersey (correctly linked on this page) but the article gives "Glen Rock, California" which is incorrect.
Fixeeg (talk) 05:28, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
The user Cantaloupe2 seems to vandalize this article. First he changed unlocking to jailbreaking (he seems to have no idea what it is), changed one link into a broken one, removed my addition and a lot of other stuff. I undid that edit and now he made similar changes. I don't want an edit war, so I'll leave it up to you. My addition was that Hotz yesterday won in the pwn2own competition $70'000 - look at all the news everywhere (mainly Vupen is mentioned in the news, because they won more money). This is one of the major hacking contests for white hats, so it does belong into the article. No idea why you allow this to get removed by someone who has no knowledge on the subject. --213.55.184.204 (talk) 13:10, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
--128.237.217.167 (talk) 00:37, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Also, the subject is evidently involved in promoting himself, as you can see from an edit by Hotz183 adding positive things about, well Hotz, in addition to IP edits with no edits unrelated to Hotz coming by only to make edits on things related to him. Cantaloupe2 (talk) 19:18, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
Adam Lanza stare is stupid. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Plutonium57 (talk • contribs) 12:50, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
Pages 52-57 - Recaps much of the information in this article. Could/should be cited Frankatca (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:03, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
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The information of his personal life is unnecessary and meaningless. The facts only lead to speculation about matters irrelevant to his role as a hacker. I feel this part of the entry is more an invasion of privacy than useful information. I would recommend its removal MarcusHawksley (talk) 16:57, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
I came to wikipedia looking for the article on George Hotz's company "TinyCorp" and was surprised that it doesn't exist.
Tinycorp is referenced a few times in the George Hotz article, but is not linked to Tinycorp.
I'm going to create the redlinks, and try to start the Tinycorp article using the following content found here: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/05/24/the-tiny-corp-raised-5M.html
What is the tiny corp?
The tiny corp is a computer company. We sell computers for more than they cost to make; I’ve been thinking about this one for a while. In the limit, it’s a chip company, but there’s a lot of intermediates along the way.
The human brain has about 20 PFLOPS of compute. I’ve written various blog posts about this. Sadly, 20 PFLOPS of compute is not accessible to most people, costing about $1M to buy or $100/hr to rent.
With the way AI is going, we risk large entities controlling the majority of the compute in the world. I do not want “I think there’s a world market for maybe five computers.” to ever be the world we live in.
The goal of the tiny corp is: “to commoditize the petaflop” Revansx (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2024 (UTC)