Sony says sorry for other os take down

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Truth is the removal of the OtherOS feature happened with the Slim before anyone hacked anything. However the retro removal of OtherOS is what caused the flack because some people actually use it.


Sony Overreacted plain and simple. Any system will garner hackers. Before hackers there were phreakers. Phreakers shared a similiar system real smart people who did loops and made phones do things they werent supposed to do like play music(hackers) to follow by instruction blue box builders who just knew that a resistor and capacitor of the right values could give you free long distance(pirates).

One group enables the other. So ignorant people bled them together but this is not the case. However there were legendary Phreakers Capn' Crunch and Whistler just like there are legendary hackers that love the attention.

Sony may have thought a nuke was appropriate since they had already removed the feature from the Slim. The path to custom firmware had already begun no doubt with that initial choice. However with the publicity Sony got over the removal of a feature that was existing and in use Sony further publicized the initial hack and bought about the revelation of Custom Firmware to the blue box crowd. These wanabes are what you should be concerned about and piracy will be available shortly.

Did you know that there are Hacker and Phreaker Conventions. Most high level hackers actually build the stuff you use. Some food for thought http://www.xda-developers.com/ is full of both actual hackers and blue box types as well as average consumers. There goal is not piracy but openness. A friend of mine contributes to the hacker community. He helped build the Snapdragon processor you know the tech many advanced phones run on today. His interest is just seeing what tech can do many hackers share that interest at its core.

So these angry posts that defend Sony are doubly insulting to me. The show ignorance about hacking what is how its done and where it takes(hint most likely hackers were involved in the making of the newest intel chips). All one needs to say is piracy and they hop right aboard even with bad decisions. Sony's choice here accelerated piracy not stall it.

The released hack could not play ISOs. It was just a possibility it could lead to that and any hacker is well aware of that possibility with anything. Besides has piracy hurt the Wii(which is easy as hell to pirate...even easier than the PSP) or the 360 which is also easy. Both cracks also have formed out of lack of linux.