It’s come to light that George Hotz, the prolific iPhone turned PS3 hacker, met with Sony engineers to discuss the particulars of his success in thwarting the PS3’s security. The meeting occurred at the company’s Foster City headquarters in May 2011, a month after Hotz settled in court with SCEA. A New Yoker writeup on the man reveals all:

Hotz walked into the building eating from a box of Lucky Charms, dropping marshmallows across the lobby. “If there were going to be lawyers there,” he recalled, “I was going to be the biggest asshole ever.” Instead, he found a roomful of PS3 engineers who were “respectful,” he said, and wanted to learn more about how he had beaten their system. During the next hour or so, the man who had started the hacker wars described his methodology.

The full article is well worth a read. Another interesting tidbit is that Hotz recently left his job at Facebook following an eight month stint with the company. There’s no word on what he plans to do next, but according to Hotz, he’s done with sharing his exploits on the internet. After the PS3 debacle, who can blame him we suppose.

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