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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."
Huh, that's odd. It was only yesterday that I was being told Sony had lost the PS3 hacking war. Wait a second, this sounds familiar. Did a Texan in a flight suit show up at the unveiling of PSGroove with a giant banner?
My work here is dung.
But if it makes you feel any better, Sony--yeah, you've "won."
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
if you don't know, you are certainly not L33T enough.
There Can Be Only One...
This must be some new meaning of the word intellectual.
And in other news, it is reported that the Little Dutch Boy is running out of fingers to stick in the dike.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
This just in. Following points made on /. regarding what other things than gaming you can do on your PS3, Sony quickly released an update that includes these changes:
1. Online access to gamer network requires a subscription plan.
2. All publishers must release updates to their games that removes dedicated servers because the datacenter electricity bill was too high.
3. Developing for the PS3 now requires a developer license. Also, an app store has been announced, where applications can be purchased, while free applications exist, they usually suck. Also, you must develop on an Apple OS. Apple agreed to help with the application approval process, seeing as they have a phenomenal app store system, and in return PS3 development has been restricted to OSX.
4. USB attached hard drives are no longer permitted. Nor are harddrive upgrades. "There's no reason for you to need all that space", says Sony, "you're just playing games."
5. Regular USB keyboards and mice no longer work properly with the PS3. You must register your device and pay a mandatory $5 fee per device registered for it to interact correctly with the PS3. Or you can buy a PS3 keyboard/mouse pre-registered for $80 each. 3 month warranty included -- we know how you gamers treat your keyboards, especially after getting pwnd.
Be careful when pointing out positive aspects of a console. They'll be quick to whisk those away so all you have is a box that takes BD disks and makes shiny gfx on the screen.
Does it eat babies?
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
NES emulators ran fine on the PS3. Sure, you didn't have 3D access, but 2D games worked pretty well. Played many a game of Nethack on mine.