And we all now toothpaste can get messy. I got this update today and I hope it can stop some hackers, at least.

This is why you don't **** with people who install linux on the ps3's sony. I personaly know a friend who bought a ps3 and put linux on it then later when sony dicided to remove linux got real real mad, apparently lost a lot of data. I don't think Sony is going to be able fix this mess anytime soon.

Sony, grow a *** pair. This is why I think Microsoft is superior when it comes to crap like this. They take action. You can't be afraid to ban people, erase their trophies, and do whatever you can to stop this. I mean, Microsoft branded an autistic kid a cheater and didn't even hesitate while doing so. It may suck being mean, but it's a dog-eat-dog world out there and the nice guys always get their asses kicked.

why bother stealing trophies, they are there to give replay value. why?

I don't understand using it to steal trophies either. Just play "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," that is a cake platinum. I know I'm a wuss, but the game was actually not that bad.

Ive done a lot of research and there is nothing specifically illegal about the jailbreak. Its also not illegal for GeoHot to have accessed the security data on the ps3 and obtaining the root keys. The only illegal thing even remotely involved is the pirating of games, which GeoHot prevented in his patch. While there are Custom Firmwares that supplement GeoHots JB and Allow you to use the JB to run backed up or pirated games, GeoHot WAS NOT directly involved in any of these firmwares creation or distribution. Thus GeoHot has technically done nothing against the law. And on the note of $ony$ Firmware update... It is not even funny how easy it is to bypass updating to 3.56. Im no hacker and I easily bypassed the update by changing the IP of my DNS server on the ps3. Sony has failed in there pursuit of completely proprietary coding and is now crying and blubbering over.

This is hilarious. Sony is so ***...

This is just sad. These hackers are just screwing everything up now, aren't they? Sigh...

I don't care about Sony-Matt, you have to tell us how the toothpaste saga ends!

I know right. That toothpaste just wont go back in. :)

Why do people bother doing this? Everything on PSN is priced very reasonably, so there's no real excuse to hack it considering it leads to tightened security for everyone else to deal with and -- even worse yet -- the possibility of Sony choosing to NOT release new content, fearing it will just be hacked anyway (look at the PSP library).

Unless you're trying to run word processors or something on your PS3. What is it people actually do with this? I can't think of anything in the world that wouldn't just be more convenient on a PC.

I wonder how much Microsoft are paying these hacker. Nah, I'm just kidding! -.-

If I ever run into Mr. Hotz IRL, i'm going to punch him in the face for making me download these new patch updates. If you ever meet him in New Jersey please do send him my regards.

The nerve of some punk who thinks he can screw with a system that millions of players enjoy not to mention putting the jobs of developers at risk as a result of decreased sales because of piracy.

Sure he says he doesn't condone piracy, but that is ***. He's smart enough to know the effects of what he was doing would have.

And what's to gain from hacking a gaming console. Give me a break. It plays video games. There is no sense in hacking the PS3 aside from purposely trying to piss off SONY or the people who own the system.

Another day, another misinformed GI PS3 hacking article. Alright, lets do this. First, this whole TRO ordeal has been going on for awhile. It was originally to geohot, fail0verflow and 100+ does. Now, considering fail0verflows members are all european (with the exception of bushing, I think) US law doesn't apply to them. As for bushing and the does, well you cant really issue a TRO to a bunch of nameless people, can you? So this only really affects geohot. I could go on about how laughable Sonys case is here, but I encourage you to go to psx-scene and read through the documents yourself. But to summarize, they claimed he was accepting donations, because they sent $1 to his pay pal, despite the fact that geohot.com explicitly said he wasn't accepting donations. And they claim geohots tampering with the PS3 breaks the PSN contract, but geohot doesn't have a PSN anyway. So this was a laughably bad case, and it was expected to get thrown out but it didn't. It turns out the judge, Susan Illston, has a history of not knowing much of anything about the DMCA. Now here where GI is really misinformed. 3.56 is still very much secure, as far as Sony is concerned. KaKaRoTo relased the new 3.56 keys, but that doesn't get us anywhere, and Sony knew we will always be able to do this pretty quickly. So, 3.56 Added 2 important things: a new updater & key (properly generated this time) for that updater, and a whitelist of every non bluray PS3 game. The new updater & key is just to make things less convient, it doesn't solve anything. It just means consoles on 3.56 or higher can't read updates signed with the old key. However, we can just open the PS3 and flash it, if need be. Now, the whitelist is a bit trickier, and I don't know what the plan to deal with that is yet, though I suspect we will be using simple version spoofing on 3.55 for now. The toothpaste can never go back into the tube, especially in this case. All PS3 consoles in production to date are hackable forever. The root key can't be changed through updates, only through hardware revisions.

They should have never drawn the ire of the homebrew/hacker guys by removing Linux as an option. Now people are going to consistently work to hack their system.

You won everyone's heart with that toothpaste analogy lol. I won't lie...I liked it a lot.

It cant, they said they already have cracked new keys and its on other sites too. GeoHot is not the guy that invented the jailbrake hes just the idiot that decided to make himself known for fame and being sued.

"...it appears Sony is learning one of the cold, hard facts of life: It's really hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube."

Interesting choice of words. Hahaha.

A few bad apples...

Good for Sony. I hope this a**hole gets screwed much further; f***ing hackers and pirates. You're not entitled to anything you little sh**. By buying a PS3, you're buying into Sony's platform to distribute games and media - it's not your personal playground to f**k around with. You don't pick and choose which laws to follow, f**k face. It doesn't take a genius to know right from wrong. He's lucky Sony didn't decide to sue his ass; they could've (and should've) wrecked his life.