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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by TheCraiggers on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:02AM (#26819924)
The cost of doing that would likely be orders of magnitude more than just keeping an NTP server operating for a couple of decades.
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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by wyldfire on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:42AM (#26820367)
No QA required: worst case is a different colored brick.
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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by grishka on Thursday April 15, 2021 @12:32PM (#26822674)
You mean commenting out a line of code, bumping the version and building a firmware image would cost a lot?
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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by katbyte on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:29AM (#26829877)
They should have thought about that and planned for it when designing the software
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Re:The looming software kill-switch lurking in aging Playsta... by criddell on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:58AM (#26820571)
Does the PS3 work with IPv6? If so, you are probably right.
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