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The BBC News website has featured an article highlighting the PSP homebrew hacking scene. The piece centres on the flaw found in version 3.03 of the firmware which recently allowed the homebrew scene to open up the firmware to enable it to run homebrew applications or downgrade to previous firmware versions.
At the time of writing the latest version of Sony's PSP firmware stood at 3.11 which cannot be downgraded. The article sheds further light on the identities of those influential to the PSP homebrew scene, namely Fanjita and Dark Alex. "Fanjita
- real name David Court - is very different from the popular hacker
stereotype of the socially inept teenaged geek working all night in his
bedroom. A married man of 34, he is an accomplished professional
programmer who writes server software for large telecommunications
companies for a living. He spends an hour or two a night hacking PSP
software in his Edinburgh home, and is also a martial arts enthusiast." Dark Alex explained the reasons behind his enthusiasm and commented on the piracy issue. "I
mainly do it because it is fun to research the internals of the
operating system of a machine made by a big company. I am also against
DRM (digital rights management - a type of electronic copy protection)
in any of its forms, and against restrictions that make a device unable
to show its true potential. "I think it is up to users to make
the correct decisions about how to use my software. I believe in the
presumption of innocence, unlike the media companies." Read full story at BBC.
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