First of all, I would like to go on record by saying that Sony did a good job on both versions of the PSP (Original and Slim), they are fast, sleek, and have amazing graphics.

I got one about 2 years ago, back before the firmware updates, before all the cool stuff really started. It was really cool even then, the games (Ridge Racer being the first one I had) had great visuals, and game play that you could get into.

Shortly thereafter, a few guys out there asked: “This is cool, but what else can we make it do?“. In the beginning they started by making the system display text, a simple “hello world“.

Then came the good stuff; soon there were home made games, then emulators to run other systems like the NES and SNES.

Here we go again! Once again, SONY is shipping product with root-kit characteristics… No, No, it’s not that latest CD you just bought… It’s that Nifty MicroVault USB drive. Seems the MicroVault comes with a built in fingerprint reader. The driver for the biometrics hardware creates a hidden directory in your C:\windows\ directory, and the driver makes it so that the hidden directory is not visible through the standard Windows API. We here at All That’s Evil agree with the team at F-Secure that while biometric data needs to be secured, obfuscating the directory in the manner chosen seems to be far from an optimal solution.