Thread: PRS-500 Analysis of USB trace for flashing Reader
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Old 02-15-2007, 01:35 PM   #38
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Originally Posted by scotty1024
What I find senseless is Sony spending man power implementing SHA-1 when they could have spent that man power on fixing the moth eaten PDF viewer!
Well, they didn't implement SHA-1, they used existing libtomcrypt, so the process did not involve all that much man power. However, passing this "fix" under the cover of supposed improvements (what improvements?) is in my opinion unethical.

As far as I know Sony did not introduce a single noticeable improvement in their update. None of the wishes of the community were taken into account, but the desire to close the firmware to hacking was. Why? If Sony doesn't want to spend money and effort on improving the device, why not let the others help for free?
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