admittedly the new issues are indeed from the new hacks and the fact that activision are not usin dedicated servers and their game was pretty much left open, as many people was causing havoc on balckops even before that even, like you said using glitches to their advantages, just give sony some time to implement their banhammer system, and activision are trying to put all the blame on all the game issues just on the hack which is far from the truth

if i remember correctly the 360 had similar problems as well before but now they ban all hackers, im just fed up of people on the internet spinning this out of all proportion

We'll see how it pans out, if more and more of the PS3 titles get hacked in similar fashion to MW2 then you know the activition is not to blame for the lack of their dedicated servers. If anything, it would be easier to patrol the dedicated servers to prevent such hacks for exploiting for too long. I think that so far only the COD titles have been affected due to the fact that they are the most popular at the present. As I said it's a wait and see game, if hacks begin to appear on other games especially the first party titles then Activision's blame is rightly placed. I think the main difference is it's easier to patrol the dedicated servers, so the hackers get banned faster or there is a system in place that auto bans them like on PC, but the hack guard on PC Counter Strike servers was crap and took weeks, if ever to ban someone. So the admins were responsible for ensuring that the servers were playable.

I remember being in Counter-Strike where a cheater would kill most of the opposing team within a very short time after the round even began. I also remember a guy who had a cheat which would reset the server whenever somebody somehow managed to kill him.

Are Call of Duty's online progress files stored locally on the console's hard drive like they apparently are on the PC?

I kind of miss the old Counter-Strike days because you'd play in different servers and eventually you'd find one you'd like and it would be like a community unlike today with peer-to-peer and matchmaking. There weren't any global stats or unlocks, just whatever stats a specific server tracked while you played in it. If there was a cheater, you'd just stick it out till an admin banned the guy or just went to a different server for a while.

The hacked lobbys/aimbots/whatever have been there since launch. The hack has nothing to do with it

Those are GLITCHES not hacks.  Or they are J-Tagged 360's which are very rare because they have to be old model 360's without any updates since 2007 or something.

The recent hacks on PS3 are because of the jailbreak and the master key leaks that let people do pretty much whatever they want on any model PS3 and any firmware.

Though I do not see the fun on hacking someone or even hackin in multi player because that is just spoiling yourself. Why bother gaming when you will just spoil everyone and yourself? I am just bitter because I see hackers everyday when I play  WoW on pvp battlegrounds... F'ng annoying.