Firmware 3.21 Update
Looks like your Playstation 3 has a new update coming it’s way on Thursday 1st of April and no April fools jokes here. Thanks to the douche George Hotz who hacked the PS3 a little while back, Sony have retaliated by fixing the exploit he used. Which means all old Phat PS3′s that are able to install linux will no longer have that ability. For those of you who choose to NOT install the 3.21 PS3 System Firmware update to keep linux on your system will no longer be able to connect to the Playstation Network and play games online anymore.
Yeah it sucks, even if you don’t use that “install other OS on your system” feature its a nice little thing to have over the PS3 Slim, but it does make the PS3 system more secure. George Hotz recently apologised for this on his blog
Note!
If you use linux on your PS3 you have a partitioned hard drive right. Well you will need to back up all your linux files if you want to keep them as updating to the new PS3 Firmware will erase all your linux data saved on that partition.
You can find Sony’s Blog post on this matter here
News just in….
George Hotz ater apologizing on his blog then went on to say…
Don’t Update
A note to people interested in the exploit and retaining OtherOS support, DO NOT UPDATE. When 3.21 comes out, I will look into a safe way of updating to retain OtherOS support, perhaps something like Hellcat’s Recovery Flasher. I never intended to touch CFW, but if that’s how you want to play…
So…. Looks like theres a war brewing up between the hacker and the corporation ill keep you posted with any updates.
