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PS3 Hacked?

Posted by Soulskill on from the another-one-bites-the-dust dept.

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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  1. Re:You obviously know nothing by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 0, Troll

    I cannot think of a single person, even from my hardcore gamer friends, who is interested in pirating games with this hack. I know a lot of people, both online and offline, who have wanted to break the hyperviser and get better performance for their computation on the PS3 since the PS3 first debuted. Honestly, I do not know where you got the idea that this is about piracy, or that there is a strong push for piracy, or anything to that effect...

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  2. Re:I rarely get to say this... by tepples · · Score: 0, Troll

    it also limits CPU access on models that are still sold new because Sony cut Other OS support to save pennies.

    The other OS function was ONLY cut from the Slim version.

    I was under the impression that only the slim version was still being sold and that hardware warranties had expired on the fat version.

    Nevertheless, how you say it limits CPU does not make sense

    I was under the impression that it limited CPU to 0 (that is, doesn't boot) on the slim PS3.

    the other half of the RAM used by the GPU CAN be accessed by Linux too, either as a framebuffer, or as swap memory.

    I was under the impression that Sony had plugged the hole allowing a swap file in VRAM.

  3. Re:Blame Sony, not the hacker by shedtv · · Score: 0, Troll

    Bottom line, most people use XBMC for playing or streaming downloaded, pirated movies. "BUBUBU I don't want to mod it to play pirated games, just pirated, err I mean, stream my movie collection..."