Better known as Geohot, he first achieved internet fame at the age of 17 with his announcement of a hardware unlock method for the original iPhone.

ENGADGET: My whole life is a hack: how Geohot owned the iPhone, PS3 and inadvertently rallied hacktivists

No sooner had the hacker war begun than one Anon declared a splinter faction, SonyRecon, calling for personal hacks against Sony employees and the judge in the geohot case.

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Remember when Sony sued Geohot and demanded that YouTube hand over the user info of all the folks who posted comments to Geohot's PS3 jailbreak video?

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However unintentional, Geohot became the poster child for hacktivists and inspired a movement that quickly grew out of control -- if only more of us could be so productive with our boredom.

ENGADGET: My whole life is a hack: how Geohot owned the iPhone, PS3 and inadvertently rallied hacktivists

Keep in mind that Sony's getting this information to show that many of the downloaders and commenters are from Northern California and that Hotz's hacking efforts were aimed at Californians -- meaning the case should remain in the Bay Area instead of moving to New Jersey where Geohot hacked his PS3.

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Well, score a victory for SCEA, as the judge overseeing the case's jurisdictional discovery process has ruled that Sony can get what it wanted -- information from: Bluehost (who hosts Geohot's website) regarding who downloaded the jailbreak, Twitter regarding any tweets made by Hotz, Google Blogspot regarding comments made on his blog, and the aforementioned YouTube user data.

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