Get you fights straight, please... [LWN.net]

Get you fights straight, please...

Posted Sep 15, 2010 8:06 UTC (Wed) by khim (guest, #9252)
In reply to: Yes, but so is iOS... by Kamilion
Parent article: Severe Adobe Flash vulnerability

From that lax beginning, the PSP never had a chance; too many people surfed the internals and knew how the system worked by firmware 2.0's release to prevent additional incursions and custom firmware from appearing.

Well, that's certainly true. But there are different truth too: most PSPs sold in 2009 and all sold in 2010 (PSP 3000 with firmware 5.05+ and PSPGo) can not be jailbroken. That's year and half - not too shoddy. Compare with iPhone 4.

As soon as Sony 'locked it down' all of a sudden now there's a challenge, and things like PSJailbreak and PSGroove popped up within months.

The timing is somewhat different: first Geohot publishes pretty useless exploit, then Sony locks down the console, but the real jailbreak comes not from these efforts but from leaked manuals and service software. It's not yet clear when PS3 with firmware 3.42 will be jailbroken again - and it's possible that 3.42 will be what 5.05 was for PSP.

PSP, PS3 and XBox360 have pretty damn tight security (even if all three are jailbroken... to one degree or another) while Wii, iPhone and Android (it's somewhat better then Wii and iPhone but nowhere near the leaders) have pretty lax security. To ban the Flash from Apple's Store because it's buggy and security hazard is hypocrisy.

Where's all the money? DarkAlex & Geohot's pockets? Or Sony's Security team's paychecks? My bet would be on the latter.

Well, I guess at least some of the money are in the pockets of the guy who "lost" service manuals... or may be he was just careless?

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