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Amnesia10

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Sony to disable PlayStation 3 operating system feature

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8594720.stm


	Quote: Sony has said it will disable a feature on its PlayStation 3 (PS3) console in a move some consider to be a pre-emptive strike to guard against games piracy. The firm said that an update to be released on 1 April will prevent people using a function that allows them to install alternative operating systems.

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Tue Mar 30, 2010 1:56 pm

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Re: Sony to disable PlayStation 3 operating system feature


	Quote: "Imagine if an exploit were found in Safari on the iPhone, but instead of fixing it, Apple decides to pull web browsing altogether."

Steve Jobs once said that it was much harder to take a feature away than it was to add it. I have forgotten the context, but I think it was when he was asked why a feature was not precedent in a product (note - wayyy before iPhones and iPads). I think he was being careful not to release a product with a poor feature which they would have to pull later on.

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Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:21 pm

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Re: Sony to disable PlayStation 3 operating system feature


	Quote: The move comes after a US hacker released the first code that he claimed bypassed the PS3's security systems. The exploit, released by hacker Geohot, used a machine running a variant of the Linux operating system.

Wonderful, another blow to the Linux world. Anyone who doesn't really know much might stumble on this and think that Linux is for crackers and other bad people...

Tue Mar 30, 2010 5:01 pm

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Re: Sony to disable PlayStation 3 operating system feature

Hasn't some US agency just built a PS3 farm using a third party OS?

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Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:20 pm

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Re: Sony to disable PlayStation 3 operating system feature


	belchingmatt wrote: Hasn't some US agency just built a PS3 farm using a third party OS?

Oops there will be some red faces if that suddenly goes belly up. :oops:

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