Sony swings the banhammer for customized PS3 firmware owners

If you happen to own the Sony PS3 and have flashed a custom firmware on this console, then you ought to take note that there is a very real possibility of Sony’s banhammer come swinging your way. Sony did issue a warning to the masses, touting that they have started to ban accounts and console IDs which were connected to modding activities. Not only that, customized firmware users as well as folks who run select applications which are capable of bypassing certain PSN authentication checks such as “F*ckPSN” have already begun to receive the proverbial boot, so to speak, with a bunch of users reporting the following message identified by the error code 8002A231 upon PSN sign-in:

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