Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Posted March 15, 2012 at 5:15am by iClarified Staff

Famed hacker George Hotz was arrested and charged with felony marijuana possession while en route to SXSW, according to Above the Law.

Hotz was on his way to give a talk at SXSW, when he had to pass through a border patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca. According to a source familiar with the case, Department of Homeland Security officers brought drug dogs to each car. When the dogs barked, Hotz (and his passengers) were pulled over for more searching.

Hotz has a medical marijuana license in California, where he lives, our source says. In the car's glove box, Hotz apparently had 1/4 oz. of marijuana and chocolate edibles equivalent to less than 1/8 oz. of the drug.

Above the Law's source said the local sheriff took the entire weight of the chocolate as the measure of pot, valuating it at $800 instead of the $15 Hotz paid for it. Hotz was booked for a felony and posted $1,500 bail.

Interestingly, an attorney is saying the search may have contravened the Fourth Amendment. Since the vehicle was apparently only pulled over because of a dog sniff. It would appear the true purpose of the roadblock was to check for narcotics which is impermissible under Indianapolis v. Edmond. You can read more about this at the link below...

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Geohot Arrested for Marijuana Possession En Route to SXSW

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Jingsk - March 17, 2012 at 2:46pm

Why don't he go to California? Hahaha

MiBear - March 17, 2012 at 3:21am

Big deal. So he smokes pot. So does a kazillion other people. Been there done that. Got the t-shirt and the hat. I like what he has done for the jailbreaking community so far.

james - March 15, 2012 at 5:00pm

is apple behind this ? Geo is jailbreak master, im sure he jailbreak out of that place in no time.

Rui Fonseca - March 15, 2012 at 8:48am

now he has to do another Jailbreak..!hehehehehe

viperware - March 15, 2012 at 7:22am

And when was the last time dev team came out with a bootrom exploit? Hotz is a skilled hacker, no one else is finding bootrom exploits.

E2EK1EL - March 15, 2012 at 6:35am

@ NicholasLAranda - Educate yourself and stop smokin. BTW using winterboard for your cool lock slider takes a toll on mobilesubstrate and eventually slows down your phone dramatically. The iPhone Dev-Team says Geohot is using stolen code to provoke them into an early release of PwnageTool. In a lengthy posting on why its best not to rush the release of the jailbreak the iPhone Dev-Team writes that Geohot was kicked off the team for not abiding by their rules. Apparently, Geohots first hardware hack was a result of some of their tools. Now they believe one of their team members has leaked a copy of their exploit to Geohot and that George is using the exploit to provoke them into releasing PwnageTool. Read More Dev Team's Official Letter Over the last year weve discovered some interesting things about the software used in the iPhone. These hacks , exploits and techniques, or whatever you want to call them, are valuable - not only from a financial perspective (so scummy people can sell unlocking software) but also from a strategic point of view. Think of it like a game of poker, showing your hand too early would certainly make you lose the game. The majority of iPhone users are not technical - they want an easy, one-stop, simple application that will allow them to quickly and painlessly unlock their phone. If we were to release a crummy command-line based tool that does the immediate job that everyone is screaming for, wed only end up in the following situation: 1) The technique is released to the world and people use this technique to quickly create GUI apps that they charge cash-money for, or re-release something hacky and horrible that bricks lots of devices, or for example disables the WiFi that then causes more stress that ultimately comes back to us 2) The technique is exposed to the vendor, allowing them to locate and repair the security hole. Sometimes these security holes span product versions, for example: between the first generation and second generation iPhone. In such a case releasing the knowledge in the middle of the product development cycle is pointless and risks the usefulness of the technique - especially if there are existing hacks/techniques that work just fine. The iPhone DevTeam is comprised of a group of people who work together over IRC from various parts of the world. This distributed method of working happens 24 hours a day with people performing tasks in the time that best suits their time-zones. It is a completely self-managing, self-regulating and member-funded organization. Most of us have never met face-to-face and we rarely know real names - in fact, we would more than likely not recognize each other if we walk past one another on the street. Despite this we follow a strict hacker code: ground rules by which we all abide. Perhaps the foremost of these rules is management of knowledge. We keep certain information private, restricted to members of the team only (to help with points 1 and 2 above), and members are entrusted to make sure this secrecy is consistently enforced. This makes the team. Only when there is a majority vote from the team do we make any announcement or release. So now we come onto Geohot, the self appointed media frontman for last years iPhone hacks. Geohot actually worked with us a month or so before the media-circus that he led. Geohot is certainly a bright guy, but he couldnt abide by rules that I described in the last paragraph and because of this he was asked to leave the team. Of course like any hacker Geohot continued on for his goal. Using some of our techniques and tools (and some of his) and using his own brain power (and that of an unnamed Russian) he was able to release his hardware hack and demonstrate the first unlocked iPhone to the world, he has also demonstrated other things during the last year and some of those releases have helped us with our work. We thought that Geohot would have matured somewhat in the last year, but this clearly isnt the case, as sadly one of the team members has leaked a copy of our exploit to Geohot and he is now using this to provoke us into making an early release :-( So finally, just in case some of you were wondering, were not sitting on this tool because were full of ourselves or stuck up our own asses. Were not sitting on it cause we like to see you writhe. We are testing it to make sure its as glitch-free as we can make it. We want to avoid releasing something that turns expensive phones into pretty looking paperweights. Dont you agree its worth the wait? If others want to feel like theyre in control by posting all-knowing entries on their blogs, we cant stop that, but the new PwnageTool will be released when its ready, and not a moment later. https://iClarified.com/1524

John - March 15, 2012 at 7:19am

Umm hey nick get your facts straight Geohorz RAN from the case not won he RAN after taking the donations from the people..... Plus he was not the first to do anything with iPhone or the dev team, guess you guys forgot about zibri

Aaron - March 15, 2012 at 5:57am

I recall him giving up with Sony, not winning. No?