Quote Originally Posted by stimouk03 View Post
if you flash geohot's patch install some signed homebrew ie multiman 1.14.02 3.55GH then flash back to sony's OFW 3.55 it will still work. thats what the OP is on about by saying CFW is not needed as such.
Yep, that's pretty much what I meant. When the keys were discovered everyone kept saying it's game over for Sony as we could now sign and run anything we wanted straight from XMB without needing dongles or CFW. Well, that kind of didn't happen at the time and now everyone seems to have forgotten that it was the whole point of the leaks.

Now, obviously we haven't got the whole thing cracked because we can't install packages without a little mod to official firmware. But it's pretty close just having to do Geohot's little patch.

Plus, using official firmware might offer more stability, I don't know.