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PSP Firmware Downgrader Released

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the only-a-matter-of-time dept.

roka writes "SonyxTeam has just released a downgrader for the PSP using the toc2rta 2.0 overflow in libtiff. This has been tested and found working by PSP news sites. This is basically opening all sold models of the PSP to homebrew applications and will boost homebrew software development for Sony's handheld."

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  1. okie doke by Tumbleweed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Off to the store! (okay, in another paycheck or two)

  2. Re:"homebrew software development " ? by DECS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Well if you crawl from under your rock, there is some debate about encumbering guns to try to prevent accidental deaths, both through physical means (safety locks) and legal ones (waiting periods, background checks). We also do similar things to prevent death, injury and property damage involving:

    cars
    machinery
    tools

    The thing is, society spends resources in proportion to risk/loss/damage, and since hammers are not causing lots of death, we aren't working on encumbering them very hard. We do try to make airgun nailers safe, however.

    How about a less apt comparison, to make your point that theft is warranted when a purchase is also involved somewhere along the line:

    "we don't have safety devices encumbering bananas, to prevent people from stabbing themselves in the eye!"

    with that handled, how about looking at your point critically:

    If you buy a CD, do you have the right upload it to a torrent and obliterate the music marketplace?
    If you buy a student copy of Office, do you have the right to install it on all the PCs in your company?
    If you buy a GPS device, do you have the right to hack it to use military grade accuracy?
    If you buy an iPod, and you hack the ability to play WMA, do you have the right to use it for that? how about distributing your hack? how about cracking Fairplay AAC? How about WMA encryption?

    Your answers will depend a lot on what companies you fancy, which you hate, how much money you make, and if you make your money from licensing fees, royalties, and software development or flipping burgers and washing cars.

    In any event, simply believing something doesn't make it "the case" or factual or right.

    Now back to what you were doing.