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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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"We have an A-Bomb...what more do you want, mermaids?" --I.I. Rabi, speaking in defense of Robert Oppenheimer
Do you even realize how fucked up that mindset is, that you bought into?
Their system? You fuckin’ bought it! You own it!
Pirating? Do I have to explain this again? http://7.media.tumblr.com/4nZBASoSAd79pgh9yEG2ZCPi_500.png
What you describe, is is physical reality, described like this:
You bought a computer in form of a game console, but then noticed that the designer employed some tricks to keep you from doing certain things whit it, despite you having payed and owning the device. Which of course did only hold for so long, until you were able to break it open. Because physical access > root access.
Then you would copy some data / ideas (in this case, games), which are NOT physical goods, from someone. Which is a normal thing that is a basis of human civilization.
But some fucked up retard asshole douchebag would argue that you did hurt him with it. Which of course is physically impossible. His reasoning would stem from the deliberate misunderstanding of physics of treating data / ideas as physical goods, and the resulting the staight out lie, that this means that you would have taken it away from someone and not even giving something back.
On top of that he built his whole fucked up business model, where he tried to sell not the service of creating that data, but the data itself. Which only worked at all, because he noticed that there were a lot of idiots who would actually pay for that, and cave in to his sick delusions.
And because he happens to have tricked artists into adhesion contracts to offer this “service” to them, he now thinks he “owns” this “goods” (the games).
The worst thing of that all, is not the delusional idiot with the fucked up business model. It’s that he gets trough with it, because people like you not only let him, but even use his wording and mindset, and therewith actively support him.
I know you are more intelligent that that.
I know that after all the daily brainwashing in the media, one gets so used to it, that one starts to think that way oneself.
I know that you don’t really believe in that shit, and rather agree with me.
I know that one can forget that one is in that mindset, because of being so used to it.
So I thought I’d wake you up, so you could become yourself again.
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
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...
Palm trees and 8
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.
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..."