Again, you’re missing the point; it’s not about “how good can you make it” but about “oh, they said I shouldn’t? Now I have to”. Geohot is an old friend; he doesn’t hack as a means to an end. He hacks because he doesn’t know any other way to look at the world, same as me.
Also, you’re again being limited by what you’ve been told. It doesn’t matter if the motors are at 85% capacity. There is SO much to tune in software, and that’s before you get into making improvements to the hardware.
Peter, Emad, et al., are brilliant, but they aren’t gods. I guarantee you a smart 14 year old kid can build a better motor if they try hard enough and are determined enough, at least for them. I’m not saying it will scale, but it *doesn’t have to*; that is very much not the point. And, in fact, this is what bad companies are afraid of and good companies try to hire.
And the thing is, before you’ve gotten in, you have absolutely no idea what is or isn’t possible. You’re telling yourself it’s not worth it before you’ve even tried.
That, friend, is the point. Geohot wasn’t hacking the PS3 because he wanted to utilize the max power of the cell cluster. He was doing it because Sony told him he couldn’t. The end. Once he *got* there, then he found endless possibilities. Security intends to keep you out, but once you’re in companies generally don’t invest tons of money on defense in depth; perhaps they should, but boards don’t like money spent on “things that will probably never happen” when the existing security practice is “good enough.”
That’s why people like me and
@segbrk will always have job security.
I don’t care what you’ve built or how you’ve built it. I guarantee you forgot something. And I guarantee I will not stop until I find it, if I’m curious enough.
