VHBL Status

I think i understand why sony are patching our user exploits. We all know they don’t want us to have kernel exploits (ex, iso loader, Homebrews, etc). Kernel exploits are found on the PSP FW module which means if someone find an exploit on these “Special” module, then they will have to patch the system, update it and also make sure everything else is still working in the firmware. This is a lot of work for one problem which may just make them have more problem than what it worth. There also the problem that while they try to fix the first problem, someone may find another kernel exploit at the time and the WHOLE process repeat itself. So how would you kill this problem? Simple, Go to the root of it all and pull it out. User mode exploit is our only mean(That i can think of) to load Kernel exploits. Without user mode exploit, kernel exploit becomes as useless as finding a ripped $100 bill and not having anything to put it back together(Painful). Usermode exploit are also easier to fix. They are frequently cause by buffer overflow so if they make sure that the game ONLY get what it need before there an Buffer overflow, then problem solve.

If you look it at the time consumption:
It may take them about two weeks to a month to fix a kernel exploit without causing anything on the system to break.

It will only take them a day or two to fix a buffer overflow.Especially since we already found so many that they probably have a system that only need the game name, savedata structure, and what length the data should be.

So why does it take so long for sony to update the firmware with the patch? Well i am in the assumption that they already have it solve and fix by 2 days from when they first see the problem. They probably wait a bit long to see if someone else( “Eyes on wololo” lol) release another usermode exploit so that they can also patch it and release it all in one package. They also can be waiting to see if a new feature that they working on is almost done and working properly so that PSVita could get it at the same time that the exploit is being patch. “Kill three birds with one stone”.

I think sony likes this site by the ways(As long we don’t support iso) because every time we release an exploit game, they find it and patch it for the next fw. So we are doing there work for them in a way since i sure they have a team just for the purpose to find these exploit before we do.