“To anyone who thinks I was involved in any way with this, I’m not crazy, and would prefer to not have the FBI knocking on my door,” he said this morning.

“Running homebrew and exploring security on your devices is cool, hacking into someone elses server and stealing databases of user info is not cool You make the hacking community look bad, even if it is aimed at douches like Sony.”

Geohot says the blame for this catastrophic breach falls at the feet of “the executives who declared a war on hackers, laughed at the idea of people penetrating the fortress that once was Sony, whined incessantly about piracy, and kept hiring more lawyers when they really needed to hire good security experts.”

“Alienating the hacker community is not a good idea,” he notes.

No kidding.

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However, Sony had a bit of a change of heart recently and were kind enough to give Hotz a chance to free himself from all the bothersome legal trouble. All he had to do was cross his heart and hope to die that he would never poke around in Sony hardware ever again, as long as he shall live.

Hotz accepted and the pair lived happily ever after.

People who donated to Hotz’s legal fund, who had hoped that Sony would get a right old battering in a bloody legal battle, were less happy. They wanted to know where their money had gone. But they need not have worried.

“As promised, all left over legal defense money, plus a little to bump it to a nice number, has been sent to the EFF,” wrote Hotz this weekend. “Thank you all so much for your support, without it, things could have been much worse.”

“This money goes to the EFF in hopes that America can one day again be a shining example of freedom, free of the DMCA and ACTA, and that private interest will never trump the ideas laid out in the constitution of privacy, ownership, and free speech.”

Just no one expect Hotz to get involved in this stuff in future, ok?

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Sony sued Hotz on Tuesday, alleging Hotz’ posting of the code to crack the PlayStation 3 was a breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s anti-circumvention provisions. Sony, which is also seeking unspecified monetary damages, also wanted Hotz to remove any code the New Jersey man had uploaded to the internet last week.

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