Fuck hacking. People are starting to get used to just buy dirt cheap deals on PSN stores and finding more games available in the bargain bins in stores like Walmart.

Too much trouble and not enough features. Just buy the damn games, or rent them. People say they want a "backup" of their game in case it gets damaged, unless it breaks in half, it can take some serious abuse. My daughters had one of my Blu-ray movies for a month in their room. When I went to retrieve it I thought it was ruined for sure. It looked like many DVD in the past with scratches and swirl marks etc. When I rinsed it off to my surprise, it looked brand new and worked fine. Had it been a DVD it would have been gone for sure. So for PS3 games in BD you don't have much to worry about on that front.

YOU HACKED YOUR PS3???? Out of all people on this site, the Sony gods will never forgive you..EVER!

I have 2 PS3s so the Sony gods will probably forgive me ^-^

The question you have to ask yourself is this. Why would the console be worth hacking, or Sony be worth hacking at this point in time. The issue really isn't one of difficulty, but a lack of necessity. There is much more to be gained by hacking or modding other hardware platforms. So as a matter or practicality the PS3 is obviously going to see very little in the way of attention. Not to mention that Sony has been on its best behavior. So there isn't a issue that may galvanize the hacking community against them.

You see it isn't that Sony is necessarily doing that fantastic a job. The reason Sony got pulverized last year was that they went cruising for a bruising. The company went out to pick fights, and the hacking/modding community was not only more then up to the task, but was willing to oblige Sony. For two months solid they fucked Sony up, and only relented once they had hacked just about everything, and had spent their wrath. Which was in part quenched by the fact that Sony itself pulled back on its ill advised crusade.

Sure you haven't heard much about Sony being hacked lately, but you know what else you haven't heard much of lately. Sony suing someone in the modding community. Sony fundamentally surrendered to the opposition. So it is more a case of the hacking community accepting that surrender. Right now Sony isn't doing anything to create any hate, and without that hate the hacking community isn't likely to put any effort into hurting Sony.

Will Sony place more emphasis on security moving forward. The answer to that question is a definitive absolutely not. There are actually two reasons for this. Firstly Sony has been the victim of hacking sprees in the past, and the lessons learned from them obviously didn't stick for Sony. They might not be able to defend against anything like a determined attack, but they will get lax over time. Which will make it so even marginal hackers could get in with known tools.

The second reason is Sony seems to lack a internal censor. Eventually someone high up at Sony is going to do, or say something that is going to generate a lot of friction. You see it isn't just that Sony did something that was bad, but they have a uncanny give of doing things that are bad enough to get people angry enough to do something about whatever it is that they did. I have seen Sony smeared, boycotted, hacked, and disparaged. This company has a way of getting the worst out of people, and the only thing I can chalk that up to is Sony just has a attitude problem. A bad attitude problem.

Look I am not just slamming Sony, but it has to be said. Sony has a habit of getting sloppy, and a habit of running their mouths. It is a dangerous combination to have in any company. When people talk about what it will take for Sony to get back on top. A major attitude adjustment springs to mind. It is like they run around in a thunderstorm carrying a lightning rod, and daring the storm to take a shot at them. I guess I am saying they are going to at some point manage to get enough people pissed off at them that another hacking spree is almost inevitable. It is just what Sony does.

Wrong I just looked up Uncharted 3 and there was a 100% working release 2 days after launch playable on 3.55 without a dongle.

3.55 was already outdated shortly after Gran Turismo 5 hit store shelves.

Just because there is no other custom firmware doesn't mean that newer versions (4.10) haven't been hacked yet.

FW version 3.55 had its own CFW because Sony didn't patch the previous exploit so there were enough people that used the same exploit to make a newer CFW even though there was no need for it.

Can u easily pirate games on the PS3? Is it big?

You need a good internet provider lol. Everything else should be relatively easy.

There are very different hackers. And Anonymous per se is no hacker-group, but there are hacker-groups that associate themselves to Anonymous, like Lulsec, Antisec and Anonypownies.

Some hackers do this to show security-breaches, like you mentioned. They are usually called white-hats. Most try to inform the owner of the hackable program, that he can repair it. Sometimes it doesn't go anywhere, so they release an exploit to make pressure - mostly it works, the bug is fixed fast. One of the most well known hackers are associated with the german Chaos Computer Club. They are well known, because they used BTX (one online system that existed before the Internet got big) to get much money from a german bank. They paid it back under big media-resonance and showed that way, that BTX is not that secure like it was advertised. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club

Some are use hacks to gain money. They are called black-hats. We usually don't ever know about them, because that would ake teir income smaller. If you don'T know you're hacked, they can get the most money from your resources. But we know that they are active - because we get spam. That are computers, that are infiltrated by malware. Spam is used to gain money. A more direct way is to access your bank-account or similar stuff.

Some hackers want to gain full access to the machine, they paid for. That is true for the game-console-hackers. They aren't white-hat-hackers, as they don't want the firm to fix the security bugs. It's more a liberal movement: I want the freedom with the machine I paid for, not the firm that produced the machine. The hackers themself usually want to start own programs, but their hacks are naturally also used for piracy. The homebrew-hackers are often asssociated with the Open-Source-Scene. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homebrew_(video_games)

The groups I mentioned before around anonymous do it mostly for fun (for the LULZ), or for political punishment (they attack targets they deem as bad).

There are governmental hackers. Most well known at the moment is the cyberwar attack against the nuclear program of Iran with Stuxnet. Probably the US and/or Israel are behind that. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet

And we have paid hackers, that try to infiltrate the systems of the companby that pays them. That way they can find security problems and help to fix these.

That is for the usage of the term 'hackers' as people that infiltrate computer-systems. The term hacker has also a much broader meaning, including programmers for fun and people building own devices with other stuff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(term)

The hackers won lol, didn't Sony lose a poop ton of cash last year? You know when psn was down for like a month?