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."

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Pandora vs. PSP

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Context: PS3 uses a lockout chip, as do most other consoles. One user avoids consoles with lockout chips on principle. Discussion began about recommendations for an alternative to such consoles.

A Pandora.

This page suggests that there's a lead time of several months to buy the hardware.

And though Wikipedia has a list of games for the major video game consoles, its article about Pandora lacked such a list. Nor could I find a corresponding with Google games for pandora or list of pandora games. Google pandora release list turned up this list of a bunch of emulators (without any licensed ROMs) and source ports of M-rated first-person shooters developed by Id Software. Do you expect original games with production values comparable to those of well-known PSP games to be produced for the Pandora? Or do you expect people to buy one device exclusively for major-label games and a second device exclusively for indie games?