PS3 Hacked?

Several readers have sent word that George Hotz (a.k.a. geohot), the hacker best known for unlocking Apple's iPhone, says he has now hacked the PlayStation 3. From his blog post: "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. 3 years, 2 months, 11 days...that's a pretty secure system. ... 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."

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[ZeroExistenZ]

They should do this on cars too. Vehicle manufactures should come equipped with GPS based governors, alcohol detection, sex detection, and reckless driving detection straight from factory. This could even be extended to manual shoulder checks , cellphones, smoking, eating, talking, and everything else that could possibly be dangerous.

I'm for that. It would bring the cost of my insurance down significantly, if all the "risk"-percentages are taken out. Being young would actually mean your omnimiun is lower as reactivity is still sharp, and being older would bring it up as your reflexes and reactionability starts to wither. OTOH, by the time you reach old age, and have been paying your omnium with no incidents, it could equalize because you've sufficiently contributed to the pool. So basically, your omnium would be affordable as a youngster, and gets less of a burden as you grow older. Money you could use to buy some decent electric car or something cool like that.

So, lets put these detectors in. I don't have sex while driving anyway, and the sex I've had in my car just smudged the seats. That's a no-no unless she cleans up after herself or I get leather seats.