People have had their accounts stolen? I had no idea... link please!

It seems that some people can't read one of my posts without taking it the completely wrong way.

Is this really happening? All I've heard was the rumor

Sony doesn't care if you hack your console. They just don't want you to release the tools to do so all over the world, where everyone (including pirates, cheaters, etc) can use those tools to do dirty things. 

Now I'm not against hacking or anything, but if this is the only thing that sony can do to stop the pirates, then I don't know what else Sony shoud do. I'm assuming it's easier to stop one guy from releasing information to everyone  than it is to stop every individual pirate/cheater that uses the information. 

Good, fuck all of the hackers. Low life, pieces of shit.

I am talking about hackers in general because I had my WoW account stolen. Don't you think hackers cannot do the same to PSN accounts?

Doubt it.

you can all cry to the cows come home about SONY THIS, SONY THAT, EVIL RARARARAR BLAH BLAH ROBBLE, but the simple fact of the matter, is that all you little pricks want is free games...you can lie to yourself about OPEN HARDWARE, and your mothers fat cunt all day, but it comes down to a bunch of cheapskate xbox faggots want free ps3 games WHOA WHERE DID THAT COME FROM

As i have said three times now people read the word "hacker" and assume what they guy is doing = bad.

People really need to go read up on what he has done as it just makes you look ignorant. Like sticking the knife into someone even though they haven't done anything wrong.

In this guys case he researched into how to re-use Linux on his PS3. For those of you who don't know or simply don't care recently Sony de-activated the abilty to use it in our PS3's. Most of us don't give a shit as we are not clever enough to be able to use our computers like that anyway.

This guy designed a way for himself to re-activate it. He didn't leak it onto the net, he didn't share it with anyone else.

What he did today was show others his research IDA database, for the PS3's Hypervisor and Hypervisor processes. Do any of you even know what that is? That doesn't mean you install a mod which means you can then go play Black Ops and cheat. It doesn't mean you can play pirated games. It is just a database....

His argument which is similiar to other cases is that when he bought his PS3 (he didn't steal it, Sony got his cash) it said it used Linux. It was then de-activated. Forcing him to use what Sony wanted him to use. He then worked out how to re-activate it or was at the very least trying to work out how with a group of others behind closed doors. He argues that a feature he had when he bought the console is now not there anymore. To lots of people i.e you and me it makes no difference. To some it does. The point is if you had something in your console and then it was taken away is it right to punish someone if they continue to use that feature? By doing so how does that hurt anyone else or cost Sony money?

The guy wasen't making pirated games, wasen't putting codes up on how to hack something, didn't design any software for the public to use to give them an advantage in games and so on.

You need to be able to seperate the two things. Pirating = bad. If you do that you deserve whatever you get. Unlocking features in your product that you once had and were then stopped = your choice as long as it doesn't effect anyone or make anyone lose money.

He should be able to do whatever he wants with his PS3 as long as he doesn't use it to pirate. He hasen't done that.

If anyone supports hacking on this site for the sole purpose of distributing it to the masses, then they can go f*uck themselves. I have my former Modern Warfare 2 stats to prove it, those assh*oles. 

If you want to compromise your own stuff, go right ahead buddy. But, if people keep on giving everyone here excuses like,"they're doing it for a good cause!", they honestly do not understand hacking.

Are some people naive enough to believe if that I was given the right tools to hack my PS3 that I wouldn't try some ambitious like get free games or something? We are humans after all. We all want to do things for our benefit and make mistakes out of it afterwards. Understandable correct?

I WANT sony to do these things as a consumer of their products, and as far as the hacking scenes on the Xbox and Nintendo goes, they should have done the exact same things too.  

So there is no one on the planet who wants to, for example, run Linux on their PS3 but not pirated games? Sure, there's many people who pirate, but ALL of them?

Also it's sad your first post is i) trolling, ii) a personal attack, iii) provoking a PS3 vs 360 flamewar and iv) poorly written when a logical argument minus the profanity would be much more constructive.