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Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-that-they'll-admit-it dept.

YokimaSun writes "Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmware fame for the Dingoo Handheld, which is a homebrew console that is very popular amongst emulation fans. It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console. Awesome." pudge notes that you can apparently do the same with a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator (YouTube video).

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  1. Naturally, the usual OMGWTFPIRACY folks arrive... by sethstorm · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So it enables piracy. But if it adds more functionality because of it, that much the better.

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  2. The Other OS option was used to hack it by judeancodersfront · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's why they removed it. It had already been used to compromise the security.

    I got voted down for pointing this out before, I guess some realities are just too harsh here? Or perhaps SONY BAD is the only acceptable opinion?

  3. Re:good they lost by judeancodersfront · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are you blaming Sony and not the hacker that exploited OtherOS and ruined it for everyone else?