jneul said:
fordy said:
jneul said:
fordy said:
jneul said:
fordy said:
jneul said:
great now people are going to claim $100 just for the fun of it, way to jump on the bandwagon, I really hope Sony sue George Hotz and he get's the bill for tall of this, honestly it is the least he deserves, after his delusional thoughts on how nothing bad would come from his lame move |
George Hotz made the executive decision to no longer support OtherOS? That's news to me...
Seriously though, Sony could have put the effort into maintaining the feature against hacking but they just planned not to go any further with it.
Do you think the owner of a house has any chance of suing a burglar if they left their front door wide open?
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bad comparison, sony did not leave the door open, George Hotz had to use a special technique just to hack the PS3 in linux, just to remind you unlike the other consoles it has taken 3 years to get this far.
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Yes, but unlike the reciprocation from other systems supporting Operating Systems, they don't go as far to cut out an entire feature.
Imagine if Microsoft decided to one day say "Well, we figured the weakest point for people hacking our OS lies in them connecting t the internet, so Windows will no longer suport the TCP/IP protocol". Wouldn't that annoy just a few people, at least?
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oh dear you see that's where your argument fails, windows is not the most secure operating system, I thought people knew this, just switch to linux for a while you get no(or a litlle amount) security or virus issues, linux is much better at protecting your pc, you see there are other companies out there which are better than microsoft at making software believe it or not.
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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.
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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.
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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.
