[dji4321234]

He has a very checkered history with "hacking" things.

He tends to build heavily on the work of others, then use it to shamelessly self-promote, often to the massive detriment of the original authors. His PS3 work was based almost completely on a presentation given by fail0verflow at CCC. His subsequent self-promotion grandstanding world tour led to Sony suing both him and fail0verflow, an outcome they were specifically trying to avoid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25679907

In iPhone land, he decided to parade around a variety of leaked documentation, endangering the original sources and leading to a fragmentation in the early iPhone hacking scene, which he then again exploited to build on the work of others for his own self-promotion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39667273

There's no denying that geohotz is a skilled reverse engineer, but it's always bothersome to see him put onto a pedestal in this way.

[pixelpoet]

There was also that CheapEth crypto scam he tried to pull off.

[samtheprogram]

To me that was obvious satire of the crypto scene.

[ansible]

I don't think people can tell what is satire or not in the crypto scene anymore. Someone issue a "rug pull token" and still received 8.8 ETH (approx $29K USD), while telling people it was a scam.

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=rug-pull-token

[pixelpoet]

Ah yes, nothing like a bit of hypocrisy to make a point. It's okay though, as long as it's people we don't agree with, defrauding them is fine.

[samtheprogram]

The website literally stated it was not for speculation, they didn't want the price to go up, and there were multiple ways to get some for free.

If people were reckless, greedy, and/or lazy because of the crypto hype and got "defrauded" without doing any amount of due diligence -- that's kinda the point.

[georgehotz]

I actually lost about $5k on cheapETH running servers. Nobody was "defrauded", I think these people don't understand how forks work. It's a precursor to the modern L2 stuff, I did this while writing the first version of Optimism's fraud prover. https://github.com/ethereum-optimism/cannon

I suspect most of the people who bring this up don't like me for other reasons, but with this they think they have something to latch on to. Doesn't matter that it isn't true and there wasn't a scam, they aren't going to look into it since it agrees with their narrative.