Sony Playstation

[Conrad Knauer]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 7:40 PM, J. Michael Morse
<jmichael.morse at jaguar.tamu.edu> wrote:

> http://consumerist.com/2010/05/sonys-removal-of-linux-ps3-option-screws-air-force.html
>
> Was there ever any explanation given by Sony as to why they removed the
> ability to install Linux?

A vague reference to "security concerns"

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/03/28/ps3-firmware-v3-21-update/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3#Removal_of_.22OtherOS.22_support

In reality, what Sony feared would happen, namely "a hack that uses
[...] the OtherOS feature to take control of the hypervisor" was
eventually developed and Sony would rather drop support for something
they don't really care about anyway rather than let people touch their
proprietary stuff (goodness knows, we can't let consumers mess about
with things that might break DRM, etc.)

See also http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/

CK