BBC Reports on Sony's Key Fail, Interviews Hackers, Sony Declines to Comment

[yoshi314]

there is still a way out for sony. well, partially.

they could make silent updates mandatory, entirely drop update pup's. also, strip debug menus off firmware and thoroughly verify entire /dev/flash when logging into psn.

that would cause major inconvenience for people who don't play online games, though.

for offline gameplay, i think all hope is lost to secure it. they just cannot force people to log into psn to play their games even in single player modes.

i suppose there will be new line of ps3 models that will be secured, starting very soon. and those that will be sent to repairs will be 'upgraded' or replaced with new ones.

it's pretty natural, as it was with ps2 and fmcb. but the userbase of ps3 is a bit too large to resolve this problem quickly.

Usually they'd bluster and threaten. That they're shutting up suggests there's some shit going down inside Sony.

well they are busy with two things.
1. how to deal with the problem and not make game developers run away.
2. find the people responsible

this is a major hit to sony's ps3 revenue. worst case scenario is that there might not be a ps4 at all.

[d0zs]

hotz should be careful with his words, "I'm scared of being hit with a lawsuit" suggests wrong doing.

[helltoast]

Well, they are in legal ground, there's nothing Sony can do about it, Geohot is probably just sucking it up, hoping he'll get a job offer from Sony.

Sincerely, I never liked the guy, specially when he took all the credit for team overfl0w's work. Sure, his contribution helped a lot, and I'm sure the scene wouldn't be here without his help, but even so.

[bearmon2010]

When Sony start´s a lawsuit against GEOHOT, will i DONATE for him.
Sorry for my bad english .

Here SONY that´s for you.:uncensored:

Thats not very nice. Sony can be pain in the butt but it is not necessarily to say that, man.

[HELLTICK]

Pretty sure Mr hotz has been contacted by now...but it's too late.
Damage is done.

[yoshi314]

there is a chance that they will keep dragging him into courts for trivial reasons. just because they have a lot of money for lawyers.

just to set an example for other eager folks.

[helltoast]

hotz should be careful with his words, "I'm scared of being hit with a lawsuit" suggests wrong doing.

Sometimes the media win lawsuits, while the personal rights of an individual are forgotten. Sure as **** he's afraid of a lawsuit, but really, he didn't do anything wrong.

[Morphosis]

Sony epic FAIL!

[soopahfly]

For me, you can keep 99% of your homebrew, and all of your inevitable piracy...


I just want XBMC And if they get Linux on it again but with full RSX support, who knows!

[Coldmine]

there is a chance that they will keep dragging him into courts for trivial reasons. just because they have a lot of money for lawyers.

just to set an example for other eager folks.

guess its gonna be same like mark zuckerberg and Winklevoss twins scenario