GeoHot-PS3

Let's make a group to help GeoHot, the PS3 jailbreaker who is in court right now for wanting to run Linux on his system. For starters, who wants to DDOS Sony's website? If successful, let's try and gain entry to SCEA developer's group =D

Companies don't automatically have the right to suppress "trade secrets."
Actually, that's a state specific condition and I will grant you that point - albeit a incidental one - as New Jersey has not ratified the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.  Unfortunately, I will also make that insignificant by pointing out that the state of California is the venue through which legal matters are being conducted and they have ratified the UTSA.  I'm going to void my own point, in that Sony chose California solely because most of the incidental IP traces related to Hotz's websites and instructions came from California, so it really means nothing as far as this is concerned at all.

In any case, moot point.  Yeah, there are cases where companies do have the ability to restrict access to trade secrets; and, of course, they also have the ability to challenge individuals to preserve those secrets in a court of law, the same where an individual could challenge that a company release those secrets.  Either way must have a good reason.

Hotz claims that he initially broke the PS3 open because he wanted more direct access to the video driver.  The reason escapes me and if you could fill that in I'd be delighted.  This kind of justification makes a sort of sense and I would probably not care if the PS3 were my product.  That does not create justification for him to publish sensitive code online against the wishes the people who possess legal right to the software (and Sony did contact him a number of times about this before the suit).  Stymiyng the enabler is Sony's only logical approach.