| Lafiel said: @ Alby ) |
Yes, I understood this, and it will slow the work of pirates, but what they have in their hands now is already enough to do mods that run pirated single player (and local, not online, multiplayer) games (but to use thiese early mods, a way to switch to and from a regular firmware would be necessary to access PSN and play online multiplayer games). When Geohot or anybody else manage to deceive the controls on firmware genuinity, they'll be able to dump updates and look for other vulnerabilities or check which ones of those they already know have been patched and which not instead. Anyhow, blaming either Linux or Geohot or anybody else in particular is conceptually wrong: it's a well known principle of informatic security that if the attacker can gain physical access to HW, a breach is only matter of time. Here anybody can have access to HW. Only making gaming HW physically inaccessible to users (i.e. selling them dumb terminals instead of consoles able to autonomously run games) could solve this particular issue, but it wouldn't solve every problem anyway.
