Deciphering the Sony PSN Attack
Lytle detailed the history of the PS3 modding scene, which is all about getting the PS3 to run things that it was not originally intended to run. One of those things is the ability to run another operating system, most notably Linux. Initially, the PS3 enabled Linux to run on a virtualization hypervisor on top of the default PS3 firmware. Sony revoked that access which has led to a cat and mouse game for much of 2011.
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