Has The iPhone Jailbreaker Hacked The PS3?
In a blog tracking his work hacking the nigh-impenetrable PS3, George Hotz claims success, in a manner of speaking:
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip. ...As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG.
If you can talk his moon language I'm sure that was perfectly clear. Simply put, according to him it won't be much longer before this information will be useful to other folks.
George Hotz, or GeoHot, has already achieved some level of fame as the "father" of the jailbreaking technique that allows people to do whatever they hell they want with their iPhones. His next step? Making all of the phones on the planet ring at the same time.
Sony's no stranger to hacks, with the original PSP models becoming something of a homebrewer's haven, but the PS3 had long outlasted the Wii and Xbox 360 as far as actual hackery is concerned. Personally, I'm not terribly interested in compromising my system, but I just hope this doesn't lead to an endless series of system updates and patches to try and outmaneuver the pirates. PS3 updates are always kind of a pain, especially ones that don't seem to add anything substantial to the system.
Father of Jailbreak Claims to Have Hacked PS3 [Gizmodo]
[via: Kotaku]
Dawdle
Posted to Miscellany on 23 January 2010
· Comments (5)
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The odds of my picking up a used PS3 to thoroughly violate just went from zero to slightly higher than zero.
"PS3 updates are always kind of a pain,"
Really???
@uruphred: Really??
Compared to most Xbox 360 updates, or even Wii updates (which are generally smaller in size and thus take less time to download and install), yeah, definitely. I do appreciate the fact that you can download them from the internet and load them via thumb drive, though. That tends to speed up the process a bit.
@ dawdle
Are you saying that downloading an update to a thumb drive then transferring it to and then installing it to your PS3 is less hassle than just downloading it and installing it? That freaks me out but maybe I'm just missing out. I will have to try that out.
@uruphred,
None of the consoles let you download updates in the background, and most updates are around 150 MB on the PS3 - this used to take me about 30-40 minutes to download and install when the only internet in my area was a sloooow DSL. The option of getting an update from the internet means I can grab it on my laptop or even at work when I read about it and am doing other things, rather then having to wait a half hour just to play a game while my system downloads and installs the update.
I mean, I'm not saying it's a hardship, or it ruins my day or anything, but when the message pops up that an update is needed, it gets in my way a little bit. Hence, "kind of a pain" and not "my absolute worst nightmare." Especially if I needed to play a game with friends or download something online. And due to their relative frequency and size, the PS3 updates are so far the most annoying of the three consoles. Feel free to disagree.