Linux is open source. As far as I know, there are no executive decisions involved there.

Yes, Linux is more secure and such, so what does that have to do with the argument? If the same flaw was found for Linux, atempts would be made to FIX THE PROBLEM, not remove the feature altogether.

This is clearly just a cost-cutting measure by Sony, since they no longer wish to spend the money in maintaining the integirty of the feature against hackers.

this is not a cost-cutting measure, sony could not have made changes like that by themselves as they was not responsible for making the flavour of linux availabe to the ps3.

you really should read up on the technique he used, i would love to know how you would have combatted this, and the same to anyone else who thinks sony could have done so much better in such a small amount of time, the ps3 is a very powerful piece of hardware I do not blame them for removing the other os feature.

If it was on the user agreement that Sony can change the features, then I'm pretty sure that takes care of the European law... since it is a mutual understanding, as well as a signed contract pretty much.  Of course, if a retailer advertised it too, then I can see them having to reimburse customers, since the customer never made any agreements with them.

Correct me if I'm wrong though ;)

haha! well, you have more trophies than my brother :) Enjoy FFXIII, its' combat is..how shall I say 'Lightning' fast :)  Enjoy your gaming jneul :)

So the PS3 is such a powerful piece of hardware, but one little hack attempt brings the system to it's knees? Does that make ANY sense at all?

Listen, for every compromise made on ANY system, there is always a way in software terms to prevent it. That being said, no system is entirely unhackable either, so that doesn't mean features shold be removed.

What would I do? Let's see. As far as I remember, his hacking attempt involved accessing outside parts of protected memory. If that's the case, then a Virtual Environment would have alleviated the problem. If that is compromised as well? Then it is the fault of the VE and not the hardware, and since the VE is firmware, and maintained by Sony, it could easily be upated in firmware for future attempts.

There is no "Special technique" used by the hackers for this sort of thing. It's the same techniques used anywhere else, exploiting the limits of a binary system from an infinite world. But there will always be a workaround for this type of thing.

Ah well I think it was a good idea taking that away then.

clicking on report now, you see because you know you are wrong, it is not the ps3 at fault the only way he could hack it is because of linux, even though it is more secure than windows, you can keep on trolling, honestly you are not impressing anyone.

Edit: i would love to see him trying this method without linux on the ps3:):) on gameos, not custom firmware before you get even more clever

I am dead serious here. Read up on Virtualisation. The operating system in the Virtual environment never talks directly to the hardware, which is the point of compromise. If Linux was running on, say, a PowerPC Virtual Environent, the VE would be responsible for any compromise attempts made towards the hardware and stop it before it's made.

You may call it trolling, I call it keeping to the facts.

I know what you are going on about, sadly, what makes you think that hackers will not find newer and better ways of getting what they want, it does not matter how many new features you include nothing is unbreakable, unfortunately, and yes I'm being serious, but it really does look so much more than posting facts to me.

how would you patch it from something physical! it's not as easy as some of you are making it out to be.

the way geohot used to get into the Hypervisor in it was the use of a board shocker! Geohot would not have even got that far unless he used it and even he was not sure it would have worked!

the fact that it did mean's he bypassed encryption and security when he agreed not too. thus he broke the agreement Not Sony.

he could not have done it anyother way without mod chiping the board. So no! many people tryed it just by software alone and for 3 year's they failed. there is more way's but all require opening up the PS3 and using custom hardware to do it. and I know of another way and it involves another PCB board hooked upto the PS3 but the fact that was not the only thing it also required software and that was also Linux.