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Europeans Exploit PS2 Web Browser

Posted by simoniker on from the not-the-most-elegant-surfing-tool dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The BBC has an article on a gamer who's configured their Playstation 2 to act as a web browser for any site, not just those associated with PS2 games, although it seems to be an European-only option." While you can even run a PS2 version of Mozilla with the Playstation 2 Linux Kit, this exploit, for standalone PS2 consoles without a hard drive, works by re-assigning an external device IP option (apparently only available with the European network adaptor?) to a non-Sony website.

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  1. We should focus on the big picture. by Mensa+Babe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is a really great news, I must admit it, even if somewhat old, but actually very few people are doing it, and it is not even the first time such a thing is possible for PS2 users. The question though is "Why?" Why should most of the users bother with such an "exploitation" while even most of the MSIE users don't bother to change their starting URL? I mean, why most of Windows users have no idea what does GNU mean? Could it be because of Results 1-15 of about 43 containing "GNU" on MSN while Google gives Searched the web for GNU. Results 1 - 10 of about 11,600,000. Search took 0.07 seconds.? I mean, let us be serious here for a second. Most of people don't care about anything. All they want is play games, play games, and then play some games. That's it. Freedom? Philosophy? Human rights? They just don't care as long as they have TV, pop music, video games, fast food and a new Saddam or Osama to kill and blame for their misery from time to time. This may be sad, but that is the truth. But let's stay on-topic. This is great news, I'm sure everyone will agree with me.

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    1. Re:We should focus on the big picture. by Schezar · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Welcome to America ;^) The only reason we don't have a revolution is the large middle class. They're not too well off, but they're scared as all shit of being poor. Life is good enough for them, so they'll never risk losing what they have.

      Thus, the middle class sides with the rich, and the poor work at McDonald's, and the RIAA continues to be evil, and the spectre of DRM looms like the Iron Curtain once did, and wars rage, and Playstation owners fail to make use of a neat feature.

      Business as usual.

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  2. But why can't it? by markimusk · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why did Sony ship the network adaptor without a full web browser anyway? It just seems logical to me. I got my first ISP for my Dreamcast back in '99, and there I was ready to go. I actually used it more for surfing than for online games. This is probably why I haven't got the network adaptor yet, I don't really see any reason to at this point.