I'm not sure why people are saying that a firmware update will undo all the hacking. I'm under the impression that as soon as a system has been hacked once, it's relatively easy to get around the updates (i.e. it won't take another three years). Also (and I hope no-one was implying this), he isn't stupid enough to update his firmware in the middle of hacking. I bet his system's firmware hasn't been updated since he got it.