Sony says sorry for Other OS take-down

[Herbster]

Thanks BlueCrab, I'll give the proxy method a go then.

[NeoTechni]

This attitude that it is the hackers fault really pisses me off. Sony could have fixed it - their bug was in SOFTWARE - but instead they cited "Security Concerns" to protect their users.

The whole protecting users thing is 100% bull$#@!. At the present moment you can't just accidentally get access to higher privlages in your PS3 and brick your console. It requires hardware to do anything like that.

Sony are just lazy and can't be bothered to do a bit of work.

If an ISO loader had come out - maybe I could have understand. But at the current stage this was HARMLESS.

Agreed

[Anger]

this is not a rant - i have only one thing to say. if honda or lexus or any other car maker out there were to release a car then 6 months down the line realize the wheels are out of balance and the only way to fix it would be to remove a wheel do you really think people would go with this?:rofl: its a complete and utter joke - there trying to protect their investment at the cost of everything - including the law. i hope to hell a class action is filed in the eu and forces sony to reinstate it. i understand why their doing it but its yet another bad move from sony. how on earth their still making money and getting away with illegalities like this is beyond me.

[jamotto]

This attitude that it is the hackers fault really pisses me off. Sony could have fixed it - their bug was in SOFTWARE - but instead they cited "Security Concerns" to protect their users.

The whole protecting users thing is 100% bull$#@!. At the present moment you can't just accidentally get access to higher privlages in your PS3 and brick your console. It requires hardware to do anything like that.

Sony are just lazy and can't be bothered to do a bit of work.

If an ISO loader had come out - maybe I could have understand. But at the current stage this was HARMLESS.

That is the thing it can't be fixed, they can make it more difficult to implement, if they went that route they would have another PSP on their hands wasting resources and time rolling out firmware and hardware updates trying to keep ahead of the hackers.

Or they could cut their losses now and remove the feature that nearly all the hacks are going to exploit.

Yes, no ISO loaders yet but if geohot has access to everything he claims to then it was only a matter of time before one appeared after all the firmware was reversed engineered.