The PSP has been fertile ground for hackers, and despite Sony’s efforts, they keep finding ways around the security. The PSP Go was released as a piracy deterrant, but they probably only added flames to the fire when they started releasing retail-only games and keeping Go owners from downloading them via PSN. That, and hackers are tenacious as hell.
The solution results in similar functionality offered by previous hacked firmware available on regular PSPs, but functions like the more recent firmware hacks, meaning the hack is gone when you turn off the console.
It’s also almost all a moot point now, as the news reported last week regarding the PS3’s encryption becoming exposed applies to the PSP now as well, meaning an even better hack will be on the way soon.
This must all be a little scary for Sony, whose steady return as a serious contender in this generation has pretty much defied everyone’s expectations. The hacking community suggests that this is an unfixable hack, making the PS3 and PSP about as vulnerable as the Sega Dreamcast was, and we all know how that went.
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