Comments on: Mac OS 7.5 Goes Portable!

By: jayvee f.

jayvee f. — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 14:35:12 +0000

Q: Why the hell would anyone wanna do that??

A: Because we can! (- Steve Jobs)

By: Jason K. Dove

Jason K. Dove — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 09:35:10 +0000

and they get good jobs for doing so :)

By: Kamyar

Kamyar — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 07:39:38 +0000

With firmware 1.5 on the PSP, modding it was quite simple and downloading cracked games became child’s play using a buffer overun. Upon the upgrade to 2.0, Sony thought that they patched the PSP only to find that the hackers are about 95%, if not 100%, successful in cracking version 2.0 using an image buffer overun.

Microsoft came out with a “Genuine Advantage” patch that required you to validate your serial number before getting software updates on Microsoft’s website. That was cracked in 24 hours.

The point is, no matter what is put out by a company for security, it will be circumvented nearly instantaneously. The majority of these individuals do it solely for the purpose of facing, and conquering, a challenge.

By: Matt

Matt — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 00:35:21 +0000

I’ve got a buddy of mine at work who’s real into modding his PSP with stuff. It’s amazing what you can do with it. He’s even sorta involved in a project that’s allowing streaming MP3s and whatnot, I dunno. He rattled off a bunch of stuff and I kinda lost track. It seems that has been the biggest thing for the PSP right now, not it’s games, not the portable UMD movie disks, it’s how moddable it is. There are even programs to “unpatch” what Sony does to protect it, so you can go back and still futz around with it.

By: Jason K. Dove

Jason K. Dove — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 23:02:06 +0000

holy crapsticks…I just may….I …just ..may :)