PS3 jailbreak seller hits back with firmware downgrade  Step
back in time to re-apply console crack  PS Jailbreak, the USB
dongle designed to crack open Sony's PlayStation 3, can now work
with consoles that have been updated with firmware higher than
version 3.41.  Well, kind of. The software tweak actually
enables the dongle to downgrade the console's firmware to 3.41 -
or, indeed, any previous firmware version, the maker claims.
PS3 firmware 3.42 was released in September specifically to
combat PS Jailbreak. It blocks the method by which PS Jailbreak
does its stuff.  The dongle tricks shop-sold consoles into
operating as if they are developer-oriented boxes which, in
turn, allows these machines to run games from external media.
The Asian company behind PS Jailbreak of course pitches the
device not as a tool for ripping off games publishers but as a
way of running homebrew software.  Presumably, the downgrade
breaks a console's ability to use the online PlayStation Network
service, but the downgrade doesn'