Effective Bit: Get DT in your Kindle! Digital Trends Mistaking it for a reference to "Battleship," Sony accidentally retweets the jailbreak code that it's hoping to maintain from staying printed.A person over at Sony is in enormous trouble. Below a month just after the organization launched its legal armada versus the hacker group that jailbroke the Playstation 3 game console and launched the how-to details via the internet, a person with the business accidentally retweeted the “jailbreak” code through an official Sony Twitter account, reports Engadget.
Here’s what happened: Twenty-four-year-old self-proclaimed geek Travis la Marr (aka @exiva) sent a message to the Sony-operated Twitter account @TheKevinButler containing the root code to the PS3,
Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010 Key, which unlocks the device, along with the challenge,
Microsoft Office Home And Business, “Come at me, @TheKevinButler.”
Not understanding the significance of the sequence of numbers and letters @TheKevinButler — an entirely fictional Sony employee whose tweets are presumably written by some poor intern in the service — thought la Marr was playing some sort of Twitter-centric game of “Battleship,” and retweeted the code to the account’s nearly 70,000 followers.
Done laughing yet? Ok, now,
Windows 7 Starter 64bit, it gets better. Had Sony simply printed the code that allows tech-savvy users to unlock the “unhackable” PS3, that would be bad enough. Unfortunately for the company’s PR and legal departments — and whoever published the damning tweet — Sony just sued infamous jailbreak hacker George ‘Geohot’ Hotz,
Office 2010 Home And Business 32bit, along with 98 other members of the hacker group fail0verflow, for jailbreaking the PS3 and publishing their digital escapades on the net.
Sony just recently won a temporary injunction against Hotz which,
Office 2010 Standard Activation, ironically, prevents him from publishing information about the PS3 jailbreak. Who says there’s no justice in this world?
Needless to say, the offending retweet has since been removed from the @TheKevinButler feed. Luckily, la Marr printed a screenshot of the exchange on his Tumblr blog, Tmblr.us.
So, will Sony go once la Marr next? (He did, of course, publish the codes before Sony retweeted them.) Who knows. Regardless, la Marr seems to have already put the whole situation into context. Writing on Twitter this morning, he says, “The irony of this all? …I don’t even own a PS3 #truefact.”