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A significant portion of the skilled hardware hackers cracking consoles do it because they care about homebrew, but they dislike piracy. By providing something
by aepiepaey 7y ago
A significant portion of the skilled hardware hackers cracking consoles do it because they care about homebrew, but they dislike piracy.
By providing something like OtherOS, you remove the incentive for that group to crack your console.
It is fairly telling that the PS3 was only cracked after OtherOS was removed.
- eridius 7y agoA news article talking about George Hotz's original PS3 hack was released January 25, 2010. The PS3 software update that removed OtherOS was released April 1, 2010. As I recall, ultimately Hotz managed to compromise the device's root key, and Sony determined that it was impossible to protect the key (after replacing it) as long as OtherOS continued to exist.