The Bricking Issues
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For a while PS3News had been editing Team M33's firmware and removing the credits, they did this to re brand the firmware and make out that they had created it, this of course pissed Team M33 off and they had to protect their firmware from some shitty tactics by PS3News, when PS3News edited the CFW, they caused it to brick hundreds of PSP's, here are some quotes from various websites regarding the matter.
Apperently, the admin of the ps3 news site had a long history of taking other peoples work and modifying the credits to make it look as though he had been the one who had created it. When he started doing the same with team m33's firmware realeases, they used some kind of encryption on their latest custom firmware which would cause the data written to the psp's flash chip to become corrupted causing the psp to "brick". Team m33 included a warning with the custom firmware which stated that the firmware would brick the psp if the code was modified in any way, but the admin of ps3news ignored that, removed the warning, and changed the credits anyway. Well, it wasn't long before people started complaining about their bricked psp's, but the admin did nothing about it and even left the modified firmware up on the site for 24 hours knowing full well that people were killing their psp and even going so far as deleting warnings and rants from pissed off people from the forums. That's the jist of it I guess.
On August 19, 2007, Team M33 released the third edition of 3.52 M33, 3.52 M33-3. Changes are added to this firmware, which includes: USB access to flash2 and flash3, added processor speeds 75 and 133, added vshmenu which can be used to dump UMDs or access other storage areas from recovery or by pressing menu on XMB, added support for UMD video ISOs, added support for popsloader 3.30. This update included a mechanism to cause the PSP to brick during updating if it detected the update had been modified, this was done in retaliation to the website ps3news rebranding the custom firmware releases as their own work. The website ps3news kept the bricking update on their website for more than 24 hours while censoring forum comments reporting bricked PSPs caused by the modified update.