"this does not mean the onset of custom firmware"

"does not". Dont panic.

But if you read the rest of the article it clearly points out it may help towards future CFW, so the intentions are very obvious

Many people have access to TEST PS3's, not just Sony employees. For example, reviewers sometimes have debug units to test pre-release code. This leak could have come from any number of sources outside of Sony and is nothing new - debug firmware has been leaked since the PS3 launched and a fat lot of good it did.

This isn't anything to do with hacking.

The key isn't the same and no ones been able to grab the key since.

@zag exactly and things like this help out alot

Hopefully Sony can pinpoint where these leaks are coming from sooner rather then later. If I was that miserable working at Sony, I would just quit.

Probably coming from the same guys that leaked the jig that kicked off the whole PS3 jalbreak mess a while back.

Each time Sony tries to screw over their consumers something like this happens.
Karma is a b!tch indeed.

I don't know, but before Sony moved some more of it's manufacturing capabilities to China, there were no leaks like this.

@dantesparda..why bring ms into this. Can you please tell me what a sony fw debug kit getting released has todo with microsofts live pay service? Could it be you are trying to turn this into a fanboy war of sony vs ms? I fail to understand some peoples insecurities with a hunk of plastic. I understand your trying to defend against the guy trolling against sony but you are just as bad when you do it by trolling against micro. How about quit the trolling period.

Most use CFW for piracy though. There was a difference about piracy back then and piracy now...people knew how to shut the fuck up about it. There also wasn't a fad dedicated to causing widespread annoyances on the internet for "lulz" back then either so most people were just pirating games for personal use, not going "HEY I JUST PIRATED THIS SHIT AND YOU SHOULD TOO. LOL NO GAMES RIGHT?"

Reply Edit: When did I say anything about Lulzsec? Those kinds of people have been around since 2005. Do you have Lulzsec on the brain or something.

I know they do because I seen people talk about it on various boards, basically bragging about doing it and encouraging that everybody does it too.

Holy crap man, how does all of this go under your nose? You've probably been to some of the same spots that have people doing this shit in the open, with links. You have got to be shitting me, sir.

How do you know that, though? Where were the many stories about all those games being pirated as a direct result of CFW being used? And how does lulsec fit into any of this? Geohot (who gets crucified here so much that I'm surprised a N4G user hasn't been reported as sending death threats to him yet) made the CFW. Lulzsec did not and went after people like the CIA for sport.

And I don't see the difference about piracy then and now because, unlike some of the dolts that post here, I understand the reasons why piracy exists. It's too high costs of software that covers nothing but pockets of those that don't deserve or need it, draconian DRM that punishes honest consumers and do nothing to actually stop what they say it will, and people wanting an easier and quicker way to be able to get things and would use a legal way to get said things if such a way existed. I understand all of those reasons, that have existed for the longest time, and I also understand that nothing about that has ever changed.

What you linked has nothing to do with one another.

And also, do you really think the companies really WANT piracy to end? That's the PERFECT reason for companies to GET support and excuses for such draconian DRM, for disallowing modding of their systems/games, and whatnot. If that reason is taken away, then they don't have a way to screw the honest consumer without having to come out and say that that's what they actually want to do.

Think about it: perhaps it's a planned leak by Sony to garner support for their side. Has anyone ever thought that Sony would WANT this story to be dragged on because the more it does, the more people will see it Sony's way when Sony's "way" is dead wrong?

Sony wasn't against people doing home dev programs on their PS3 other wise you'd never have OtherOS in the first place.

People didn't like how you could lunix and use some programs but then had to reboot the PS3 to get out of it to play a game.

So wanted to play games under OtherOS.

So when the last dev leak happened you had the USB dongle come out which doesn't let you run lunix and play games but it does let you copy games to a HD and run them.

Sony never intended for that to be done on the PS3 and have tried or nipped it in the bud right away.

CFW is the other way around to playing games on OPtherOS, it lets you run programs that aren't proper sony PS3 programs in the XMB.

And while SOny might not have had a problem with that, people are trying to screw that around so you can start up lunix under XMB and not have to worry about otheros at all.

The PS3 hackers aren't interested in CFW they are just wanting to make it extremely easy to run games from the HD in XMB.

Which is piracy and sony doesn't like that.

What I find odd is that you have people running around pirating stuff and they probably worked but if you said to these same people make these things and you tell them that you won't be paying the for the stuff made these same people will be angry about that, why? I don't know.

when u realize who the company need to tak emoney from other stuff ...like spot before the main title....of a game..or on the cover of the game.....would be nice for everyone no?
im a musician and web developer and trust in me when i see a site payed 16 thousand of euro....lol ..i just laugh.........think at how much money take for a game...u guys think .....oh they r genius...oh they work a lots...no they r just rich..if the game sell good :)

Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.

S2Killinit

live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating

Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.

Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.

This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality

Floppy 😆
No pun intended