PS3 on wired ethernet connected to a Uverse router, system has been working fine for almost 4 years. Today, I couldn't get onto PSN. Looking into it, the PS3 doesn't get an IP address and the router ...

I’m no lawyer, but this seems a bit frightening. As the story goes, a well-known hacker named George Hotz—also known as GeoHot—figured out how to “jailbreak” Sony’s PlayStation 3 video game console.

<em>Sony vs. Hotz</em> is over, but the issues that spawned it are very much alive. While the electronics giant and the charismatic hacker have agreed to shake hands ...