Facebook has employed a hacker who published a way of running any software, including pirated games, on the PlayStation 3 and cracked into the iPhone.
George Hotz, 21, has been a software engineer at the social network since May 9.
A posting on his Facebook page last week read: 'Facebook is really an amazing place to work... first hackathon over.'
Just two months ago, Sony won a restraining order against him.
A California court ordered Hotz - also known as GeoHotz - to never again publish secret codes used by Sony to protect the PS3 from being used for unauthorised purposes. More...
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