Sony is totally boned in the best way. People are porting the exploit to be usable from TI-84 Plus Calculators, PSPs, Nokia N900 phones, and a whole long list of other devices capable of controlling the USB functions properly. Just because a simple USB stick is insufficient doesn't mean that the exploit is at all difficult to use (and their are detailed instructions complete with Youtube videos for the totally ignorant). Not to mention, for those who can't wait for the real hackers to do the work there are precompiled packages (along with the source code) that are all ready with the pirating functions re-enabled (and people are already working to expand the functionality to PS2, PSX, DVD, and Blu-Ray disc images) that just need to be flashed on to the USB micro boards. People have already been successful n re-enabling Other OS. Even the fear that it was going to be easily detectable seems to be disappearing, as there is a new version of the backup utility that identifies itself as Modern Warfare 2 instead of the ripped Game ID from the leaked SDK. I'm also fairly sure it's possible to use this to re-enable PS2 software emulation.
Suck it Sony. You deserve what you got and then some; It was only a matter of time before people began taking back all the features you took away to protect your bottom line, and giving us a few more just to say "screw you." And to all the "Lawful Good" copyright zealots, keep your smug attitudes on your oh so high horses; you are the only ones that will get hurt in this process. Anything can be hacked given enough time and resources (which this conclusively proves, given that the Cell processors the PS3 sports can output a formidable amount of GFLOPS in a cluster), and only a technologically ignorant person would think otherwise. We will adapt, you will eventually be too alienated to buy more products facing an ever more adversarial corporation bent on "protecting its product," and inevitably Sony's business will crumble to the ground and there will be no more system. Consider pirates (myself included, and proudly so) akin to cockroaches - despite the mutually assured destruction of the legitimate consumer base and the product vendor, we will live on. There is no point in even attempting to stop us. We are the pirates. We have assessed that your defenses are not capable of withstanding us. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
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