PSP FW 3.10 OE-A released!

**Submeg** · 7th February 2007, 22:05

I just had an amazing idea...if you can hire the hackers, your life will be made easier

**Harrison** · 7th February 2007, 23:26

That has happened often in the past, and not just where computers are concerned either. Many car security companies employ ex car thieves to better secure they vehicles. IT security companies employ ex virus writers or server hackers to test and improve their security and products.

Sony employing Dark_AleX to make the PSP firmware secure would be amusing to say the least. Would this hacker accept such a job offer? Would it be ethical from their point of view to? After all, the main reason for the existence of the PSP custom firmware is because these hackers believe that it should be able to run unsigned homebrew code as standard and Sony blocking this ability is against their rights to use the hardware or any purpose they see fit.

**Submeg** · 8th February 2007, 00:48

Hmm, if Sony allowed emulation but were able to stop hacked versions of their software being played do you think that a middle ground could be reached?

**Harrison** · 8th February 2007, 01:45

Not likely. Version 1.5 for the firmware allowed emulation and other homebrew to run, but copied game ISOs could only be run via a special devhook utility that took advantage of an exploit in version 1.5, yet SOny patched the next version of the firmware to remove all abilities to run any homebrew and unsigned code.