Originally posted by Vaner
It's sony , they will patch it even if that costed them to disable USB support( at least until finding another fix) as they did with OS system. As for online your console can be scanned by sony , I believe that some files will be differnet so they can detect you and ban you.
Check their page it already said that you can go online until now, so they must know that there is a fix.
no they will not remove the usb port feature through an update, how would we be able to charge our controller? if they did that it is going to be a lawsuit that they are going to loose. Easiest thing they can do is update their own jig and patch a code detector in the next FW update that detects the old Jig code because this is a stolen jig, and disable it from being detected by the system itself.
Also people this is real, sounds to me some of you only seen one video, there are multiple video from varies source and some show the PS3 in the whole video the wholde time during the game change. Some say this is working because they have a debug PS3, this device tricks the PS3 into debug mode.
Also multiple online retailers like OZ or Modchip very trust worthy sites, they won't be caught selling fake modchips.