Brewology

Today I was deep thinking on how Sony PSP has tried in each firmware release to patch the vulnerability that programmer such as our beloved DAX (Dark_Alex) has been able to exploit in order to get us what we use today when it comes to CFW.

I know it must be tough on Sony to figure out a way to make it impossible, since when they do get a good FW, a game company provides the exploit within game and programmers such as DAX gets back into track for the rest of us.

I wonder if Sony PSP has tried to shut down DAX or now the raved M33 team (which DAX is part of now). I wonder if Sony had tried anything at all?

I wonder if it would be better for Sony to seek and find DAX and offer him a very good job placement in the company where his job would be to figure out how each FW can be exploited and make the PSP engineers to make it better or more difficult to getting hacked? I wonder if they even have thought this out to this high degree (at least in my mind).

Your thoughts on this?

Hm, I wonder what DaX would say if Sony offered him a job to PREVENT hacking the psp lol.

he'd probably tell them to kick rocks and run away screaming "hack the planet, their trashing our rights"

Idk, I'd like yo work with Sony but I owuldn't wanna betray my psp fans.

I doubt DAx would deny the opportunity to talk some sense into Kaz and who ever else is in charge of the firmwares.
Actually, If DAx partnered with sony and made a OFW that had everything but ISO support I'd be satisfied.

Wouldn't you?

Yea that would be nice, but maybe have it possible to rip your UMDs and it have a special code in it that only your psp can run that ISO.

I love being able to Run .iso's cause then i can trade games with people at school. Idk if that is really "legal", but its not really that wrong I mean at least 1 copy of it got bought.

Has anyone here brush shoulders with DAX here or at another site? If yes, does anyone have a clue what is age may be? I now he is Spanish because that is what they have on him on wikipedia.org.

Just a guess but he's probably 20 or so and has the personality of Dave on Code Monkeys

sony is trying to take down dax & team m33... just look what the esa(entertainment software association) did to the cfw 3.90 m33 update on this site. http://dl.qj.net/Custom-Firmware-3.90-M33-3-[removed]-PSP/pg/12/fid/16492/catid/114

Then we will be 100% screwed

I have read biographies about him....From what i have seen he is in around 20. Anyway, the reason i say that is because they all have said he is in college (thats the right way to spell it .yunoko.lol)still. Now on the other hand, the hardly famous but deserves just as much as DAX, pthe noerson fanjita is married, has kids, and lives in Scotland. For noobz who do not kno, he made MAJOR breakthroughs and provided many "Hello worlds".

I have thought long and hard about this as well J-J. He listed as one of his reasons for "quitting" the first time that he "didnt want MORE (keyword...i say this) pressure from sony when PS3 comes out". A reason i think he might not actually be from Mexico is that before he announced he was M33 the website he used was French. He either had a VERY good helper this, great at translation tools to the dot, knows multiple languages, and perhaps not from a spansih speaking country as he says.....

Just like how many licks it takes to get to the center of a Tootsi Pop.....the world may never know.

I doubt SOny is trying that hard to keep people from pirating games and such. They upgrade the firmware every time and cry about, "Dark Alex keeps DECODING OUR PATCHES!!! Loltearzzzzorz!!!11" But this stuff is WHAT SELLS PSPs. I don't know if I would have been as gung ho about owning a PSP had it not been for the homebrew stuff and I'm sure Sony knows a lot of people feel that way. They do just enough to say they're doing SOMETHING but I think deep down, they know what time it is.

I wish they could make it so you could have CFW and be able to mod your psp, but not be able to play downloaded games. But make it so you could backup your own ISO and play that one. I mean people probably download at least 20-30 games or so while they have their psps.

Actually on wikipedia.org, it says he is from Spain. He is Spanish, not Mexican according to that site.