If you are on firmware 9.00 or lower, you are already in the golden zone. Do not update. If you are on 10.01 or higher, your options are:

Turn your PS4 into a fully functional PC by installing Linux.

Sony aggressively patches security vulnerabilities with every firmware update. A lower firmware version (like 5.05, 6.72, or 7.55) is often a goldmine for hackers because:

If you have a NOR backup from firmware 9.00, you can flash it back even after updating to 11.00. if you never made that backup, you cannot. This process is risky: one wrong wire can permanently brick your console.

At its core, refers to a specific methodology (and often the developer behind the discovery) that utilizes the PS4's hardware architecture to "revert" the System Software.

Write the patched files back to the chips using your Teensy programmer. Reinstall:

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