Noted iPhone and PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz, or GeoHot, told the gaming community not to update their systems until he was able to release custom firmware allowing them to continue using their Linux partitions, and it looks as if he's close to his goal. A new video posted today shows the hack, although a release date hasn't been given for the rest of us to download his work.
"This can be installed without having to open up your PS3, just by restoring a custom generated PUP file, but only from 3.15 or previous," he writes. "It's possible this CFW will also work on the slim to actually *enable* OtherOS; I'll know when my infectus gets here."
If GeoHot has given gamers the ability to install custom firmware on their systems, and enabled the use of Linux on the PlayStation 3 Slim hardware, the system may be compromised to allow all sorts of other nefarious uses. This is great for the hacking community, but Sony may be getting a bad case of the sweats.
He takes one final swipe at the company in the blog post. "Note to the people who removed OtherOS, you are potentially turning 100000+ legit users into 'hackers.' There was a huge(20x) traffic spike to this blog after the announcement of 3.21. If I had ads on this site I guess I'd be thanking you."
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