dave

due north. followed closely by overdue north.

oh, so no PROBLEM then!
All you need is a PS3 that's not manufactured anymore and some obscure patch that may or may not exist.

Next month, SOE annouces Everquest: Online Adventures for the Playstation 3. To play it, you just pry open your PS3 and replace its motherboard with one from a PS2. You've already got one anyway, right?

if i don't win this, i'll be a keyboard-turner forever.

I'm going to need on this one if that's ok with everyone. The rest of you can greed.

i'm a collector. i collect things. i require an edition to match my profession.

hunter gear, imho.

DO WANT.

i don't imagine i'd HAVE to sell off any of it. however, i think i might not be able to keep something named a "Wowwee Butterfly" around the house and manage to live with myself. srsly.

my current timepiece? none. well, ok, i can sometimes be bothered to haul out my iPhone to see what time it is, but every time i do that, people look at me like i'm showing off my iPhone.

have i mentioned i have an iPhone?

'cause i totally have an iPhone.

Given the popularity of the iPhone and the activity currently devoted to prying it open, it is quite likely that issues such as this one are already known among the black-hat community. As such, and in particular given the potential consequences of exploitation, it is reasonable to disclose the issue now, and allow users of the device to modify their behavior to mitigate risk. ISE is doing the community a favor here. Ignorance, in this case, is anything but bliss. How much worse would the situation be, for users and for ISE, if an exploit were delivered into the wild by some bad actor, and it were to subsequently become known that ISE was sitting on knowledge of the vulnerability?

The bad guys never need to be "pointed in the correct direction." They're already headed that way, and the only hope for security is to get there before them.