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That wasn't so much a cat and mouse game, rather a bunch of hackers playing keep away with Sony's hat. The PSP's security was "defeated" literally from day one
by scheeseman486 3y ago
That wasn't so much a cat and mouse game, rather a bunch of hackers playing keep away with Sony's hat. The PSP's security was "defeated" literally from day one since the v1 firmware launched unsigned executables, then after that there was exploit after exploit, then the whole pandora battery thing and finally the host keys got leaked and it was game over.
I bought my PSP at launch and it spent the vast majority of it's lifespan with some kind of custom firmware installed.
- alias_neo 3y agoPSP was the golden age for me. I started university the year it launched in the UK but I already had a Japanese import PSP1000 I'd bought the year before. Studying CSEE a few friends and I were all over the hacking and homebrew and wrote a few apps/tools ourselves. We spent all of the boring lectures gaming on our PSPs, modifying them, dumping and swapping games etc. Later we got Compaq iPaQs and modified those, installed Linux etc and dreamed of a Linux phone, then came the first iPhone, I imported one of those the year before it released here (UK) and everyone who saw it in the EE department were amazed. Then of course came Android, the dream came true. Fast forward over a decade and Google has well and truly put a bolt through the head of that dream. It was a different time in my life, but I definitely feel it's (tech/gadgets) all a lot less interesting these days.