The people over at PSP-Vault have uncovered some hidden secrets in Sonys firmware 2.80.

Firmware 2.80 sends out detailed information about the PSP web browser including your PSP product code and your firmware!

Its now even possible for websites to check your PSP firmware and choose whether or not to grant you access! Strangely enough, I don't remember any of these features being mentioned by Sony. Sneaky don't you think?

This is generally sent out for formatting, not to shut your PSP websurfing fun down.

THis has been common in pocketPCs and Palm PDA for years.

F.

i don't think sony shouldn't have done this because its pretty scary for the ppl running 2.8 web brower

some ppl think its an invasion of privacy. regardless, i think sony should have announced that this was intergrated in fw2.8

all that sucks my brother upgraded my psp 4rm 1.0 firmware to 2.8 cuz he wuz bored and maybe they wont let me surf da web at da sites i usually go 2.

I thought this was an underhanded move . . . even by Sony.

The next time they might add a shut down timer in the upgrade to brick your psp to make you buy the new psp and you won't know a thing about it till it's to late........asshole's in my book...