PS3 update: What you need to know
Update: Sony announced Tuesday the released of PS3 update 3.55, which it says "is a minor update that adds a security patch." No word yet on whether the new release will cripple the 3.50 jailbreaking.
PS3 firmware 3.50 is now jailbreakable without a downgrade.
Jailbreaking console was easy as pie before Sony broke the exploit in firmware version 3.42, meaning that anyone who wanted to run games that required a firmware version above 3.41 had to go through a convoluted process of downgrading to 3.41, jailbreaking, then upgrading from there.
It was a pickle, but never underestimate the jailbreaking community鈥檚 resilience: Team X3 has just managed to jailbreak the PS3 official firmware 3.50 using the X3 Max PS3 dongle, without any downgrading beforehand.
It鈥檚 great news, albeit to existing owners of the X3Max PS3 super dongle: the ability to easily hack 3.50 PS3 devices should be a free update for existing customers. Not only will the jailbreak run homebrew, but it鈥檒l also allow you to run games like that depend on firmware version 3.50 in order to function.
It just goes to show: once the cat is out of the jailbreaking bag, there鈥檚 just not a lot you can do to keep the hackers down. 厂辞苍测鈥檚 lost this battle once before with the 鈥� looks like they鈥檙e about to lose it again with the PlayStation 3.
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