Sony: 'We will fix' PS3 hack with updates

[The Catboy]

Me to Sony:

 

[Canonbeat234]

Well, well, well; The company replies back with a solemn like tone. They have already lost before this have started. The blu-ray drive was just an add-on to gloat about the PS3's power, putting the OtherOS as another feature was just begging for hackers to use it at their own advantage.

 

[Veho]

putting the OtherOS as another feature was just begging for hackers to use it at their own advantage.

Actually, the removal of OtherOS was what provoked the hackers.

 

[Canonbeat234]

putting the OtherOS as another feature was just begging for hackers to use it at their own advantage.

Actually, the removal of OtherOS was what provoked the hackers.

Sony removed it because of piracy, they should have KNOWN this before the final production of their console! They only wanted to boast what they can do with their money and gaming. I admit, not many PS3 games outsold Xbox360 games. That doesn't say the PS3 was entirely fail, it just the game developers didn't know how to produce a game that took advantage of the engine.

 

[thedicemaster]

putting the OtherOS as another feature was just begging for hackers to use it at their own advantage.

Actually, the removal of OtherOS was what provoked the hackers.

Sony removed it because of piracy, they should have KNOWN this before the final production of their console! They only wanted to boast what they can do with their money and gaming. I admit, not many PS3 games outsold Xbox360 games. That doesn't say the PS3 was entirely fail, it just the game developers didn't know how to produce a game that took advantage of the engine.

they didn't remove it because of piracy, they removed it because someone was poking around in areas of the ps3 which might some day have led to the possibility of piracy.
but all it was so far was slightly more access to the ps3 system.

 

[Jamstruth]

putting the OtherOS as another feature was just begging for hackers to use it at their own advantage.

Actually, the removal of OtherOS was what provoked the hackers.

Sony removed it because of piracy, they should have KNOWN this before the final production of their console! They only wanted to boast what they can do with their money and gaming. I admit, not many PS3 games outsold Xbox360 games. That doesn't say the PS3 was entirely fail, it just the game developers didn't know how to produce a game that took advantage of the engine.

They nerfed what OtherOS could do to limit that. They gave homebrewers a platform to code in which couldn't quite use the full capabilities of the console (to give devs a reason to release for the GameOS) and it worked pretty well since nobody really tried to hack the PS3 until Geohot came along and managed to do it. They then panicked and disabled OtherOS completely. Geohot only started due to OtherOS being disabled in the Slims, I'm not entirely sure why they removed it there though since nobody had managed to do anything much with OtherOS to get into the PS3.

 

[SifJar]

They had already removed OtherOS from Slims before any sort of hack was done in OtherOS. Because they couldn't be bothered paying to maintain and support a feature no one really used.

 

[Fireballo]

Sony released that statement meanwhile they are feverishly working on their new console.

 

[BORTZ]

Haha Sony, go to your room and think about what you did.

 

[Delta517]

I bet 10 dollars that they cant!

 

[Jamstruth]

They had already removed OtherOS from Slims before any sort of hack was done in OtherOS. Because they couldn't be bothered paying to maintain and support a feature no one really used.

There wasn't much maintaining as far as I understand. People just installed Linux on it. After the original setup for the switch in modes and nerfing the access people just did with it what they would. Only time they'd have needed to maintain was if there was a security breach which gave it full access to features of GameOS but they just removed the whole thing before they even sniffed that.

 

[RNorthex]

not to mention this gives Sony the motivation to start on the PS4 already and make that an even crazier protected system.

i present you

PS5:

it will be sold for 1599 USD

riiiiiiiiidge raaaceeeeer bundled

it's so protected, it doesn't even run games

srsly, they spend so much money on trying to get a good protection on their systems, get their devices on the line[blu-ray the biggest fail]
ending up havin' "m=random" [for who understands it]

it's not only that the slim didn't have otherOS
what made the hackers busy that they removed it from the older systems as well and the hackers also realized that there was nothing that could prevent linux running on the slim version

 

[EJames2100]

It's been 4-5 years to get it hacked right ?
That's a pretty good achievement these days, considering that everything else is hacked a lot sooner.

They had a good run, all they can do now is what they do with PSP's and bring them out with different mobo's, coding and etc...

 

[NostalgicMillennial]

ORLY? Cool Story Bro.


Tell us how that goes Sony

 

[BobTheJoeBob]

It's been 4-5 years to get it hacked right ?
That's a pretty good achievement these days, considering that everything else is hacked a lot sooner.

They had a good run, all they can do now is what they do with PSP's and bring them out with different mobo's, coding and etc...

Yes but this hack doesn't just give users the option to make homebrew, it opens the whole. There's no way back for sony unless they change the hardware. At least when wii was hacked nintendo could try and stop them with updates, sony won't be able to do that. (unless their claim is true, which is dobtful)

 

[RNorthex]

It's been 4-5 years to get it hacked right ?
That's a pretty good achievement these days, considering that everything else is hacked a lot sooner.

12 months actually if we count the real hacking activity
same as the xbox 360

 

[SifJar]

They had already removed OtherOS from Slims before any sort of hack was done in OtherOS. Because they couldn't be bothered paying to maintain and support a feature no one really used.

There wasn't much maintaining as far as I understand. People just installed Linux on it. After the original setup for the switch in modes and nerfing the access people just did with it what they would. Only time they'd have needed to maintain was if there was a security breach which gave it full access to features of GameOS but they just removed the whole thing before they even sniffed that.

Apparently it takes a surprising amount of time to test and fix OtherOS with new firmwares, because of bugs which could arise from tweaks to GameOS etc. I have read that it actually was quite expensive, considering the very small user base of the feature.

 

[geoflcl]

Sony's luxury of not having to deal with exploits on their system has finally been interrupted, supposedly by a very potent hack by fail0verflow. It will be interesting to see if Sony will indeed be able to patch up the hole, or if the hackers will prevail, and have Sony futilely applying desperate quick-fixes for the remainder of the PS3's lifespan, much like Nintendo has been forced to do with their Wii console.

Either way, it makes a great story to follow!

 

[ThePowerOutage]

I thought network updates = PSN updates = Banned!

 

[FAST6191]

Edit for vanishing post

Long story short sometimes tax/import regulations say consoles are not PCs. Sony has in the past aimed to bypass such a ruling

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/07/so...to_playstation/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/11/02/sony_sees_red_as_ec/