Sony Releases PS3 Firmware Update To Fight Jailbreaks

RyuuzakiTetsuya writes "Destructoid is reporting that the 3.42 firmware has been released for the PlayStation 3, and it has fixed the USB vulnerability that allows the PSJailbreak exploit to work." Sony's brief announcement of the update refers only to "additional security features," though the EU blog post acknowledges that a vulnerability was addressed. PS3-Hacks.com confirms that the patch is effective against the various jailbreak tools, and they point out a different tool for bypassing the update. Sony told the BBC, "... as we always have, we will continue to take necessary actions to both hardware and software to protect the intellectual content provided on the PlayStation 3."

Comments

Re:Ravings Of A Delusional Fanboy Vs. Reality

[peppepz]

Are you describing the Xbox?

Re:This is why I bought a Wii instead of a PS3

[RyuuzakiTetsuya]

After that whole Windows, Exchange and Office debacle, I'm never buying another microsoft product ever again.

(Seriously; why is it whenever a PS3 or Sony story comes up on /. there's a horde of people bitching about that rootkit but no one ever gets up in arms with the fact that Microsoft has rooted billions of computers around the world with some of the most useless, inefficient and insecure software on earth?)

Re:This is why I bought a Wii instead of a PS3

[Abcd1234]

So you are too stupid to understand the difference.

Very well. Just don't blame the Slashdot community if they aren't as stupid as you, and can thus see why "windows" and "Sony rootkit" are not, in fact, the same kind of evil.