I’m writing this while waiting for my Playstation 3 to perform an update. For those of you that don’t own a PS3, it offers a feature called “install other OS”. This has long been used for Linux by users who either wanted to use the PS3′s vast power as a nice PC, or people who wanted a better media centre.
Sony, in an update released today, have disabled this feature labelling it as a security threat.
Now I’ve never used this feature, and I’m sure Sony has its reasons, but in searching for information on the subject, came across the Playstation blog. On here are lots of views, generally bad, but some were basically labelling all Linux users as hackers. Now I appreciate that some people that use Linux are potentially programmers, dabblers, or general Microsoft-haters, but that’s like Jeremy Clarkson saying that all lorry drivers murder prostitutes.