Problem is it's quite possible security 'hole' got closed by hardware upgrade in ALL new shipments... (ferrox team gave all the infos to Sony in february).
So, there is no longer any ETA of any kind... and lesser hopes for PAL ps3's.
Let's be realistic. Now 99% of PS3 users will have fun online and gladly upgrade firmware.
When exploit will be known, only a few people (really a few) will be able to use it. Only pure pirates or pure developpers... They should have released technical exploit details even if it only works on NTSC. But they have pure pirate profile, not developper profile...
However, what happened with 360 may still happen... I.e a human mistake opening a hole in a narrow firmware version range. But that will be pure luck.
Certainly, the hints given by Paradox are nice. A few skilled developpers know where to look for, with which hardware, with which firmware range. That's quite precious and we have to thank them (for the hints, confirmed by ferrox story). But for non-pirate developpers, motivation is low (just the need of GPU driver) since all other parts of homebrew programming are already supported on ps3. So don't expect a rush on finding the exploit. It will take time... a lots of time... Also some developpers said they won't try to hack ps3 to reward Sony for their good move in letting users install Linux out of the box.
They shouldn't complain. When you advertise what you have and people want it badly and can't grab it, flaming posts always appear... No exceptions. If you want to design something peacefully, don't show it.
This post has been edited by openxdkman: Mar 30 2007, 01:12 PM