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PlayStation 3 Hack Released Online
itwbennett writes "On Friday, George Hotz, best known for cracking Apple's iPhone, said he had managed to hack the PlayStation 3 after five weeks of work with 'very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.' Days later, he has now released the exploit, saying in a blog post that he wanted to see what others could do with it. 'Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released,' he wrote. 'I have a life to get back to and can't keep working on this all day and night.'"
Reader MBCook points out an article written by Nate Lawson "explaining how the hack bypasses the hypervisor to gain unrestricted access to memory. It seems the trick is to use a pulse to glitch the hypervisor while it's unmapping memory, leaving a favorable page table entry."
Even if your software security is perfect, if your hardware cuts corners then all it takes is 100mW in the wrong place at the wrong time...
How dramatic
If they are able to bypass the hypervisor and then do hack mods for the PS3 this might open up a whole new avenue for modders and interest in the platform that was not there before. In other words, this might not be a bad thing for the PS3 overall.
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Yes because it will show companies like Sony that hardware designed to prevent a person using a device they bought in the way they want will always fail.
but
No because the PS3 is a dead-end lump of obsolete hardware that is best used as a glorified media player or a cheap number cruncher.
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Now I'll be able to use my PS3 as a media player without transcoding everything to its preferred format
* This is based on a Linux kernel module, so NO SLIM already, okay?
* All it does is poke a hole in the hypervisor allowing memory access. This means it's not going to give you homebrew quite yet, but it's going to make it possible for people to start exploring and tinkering further.
* It requires hardware that generates a 40ns pulse on some point on some version of the board. Apparently it introduces a hardware glitch that allows the hole to be opened. And it doesn't persist after a reboot.
* The top level of security in the PS3 is in that one reserved SPU. Apparently it is given the root key during startup, holds all the other keys, and is responsible for decrypting and checking everything. But it's going to be very hard to get into.
* Now that it's possible to get into the hypervisor, people can start poking at that SPU. But Sony's security model was supposed to include the possibility of the hypervisor being compromised in just this way.
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"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
The only reason for that I like this is if they can get a different way to play media files such as XMBC to work so I can play MKV files without conversion on my PS3. Also I didn't download these MKV files I have the disks, but this will prevent my son from ruining them and also allow me to change shows faster when one is done.
While indeed this opens the door for PS3 hacking, the PS3 has not yet been fully "hacked".
See http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.com/2010/01/ps3-is-hacked-urban-legend-continues.html
The security architecture of the PS3 is designed in a way to prevent hacks like this to fully compromise the system.
Another interesting read, by Kanna Shimizu, http://dslab.lzu.edu.cn:8080/members/zhangwei/doc/Cell_Broadband_Engine_processor_vault_security_architecture.pdf
He figured out a way to read all of the memory. Can you provide a link to someone who did that last year?
Comment forecast: Bits of genius surrounded by a sea of mediocrity.
You do realize that the PS3 is a GAMING console right? Sounds like you should be buying a PC if you want to run Linux.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
"It seems the trick is to use a pulse to glitch the hypervisor while it's unmapping memory, leaving a favorable page table entry" Well shit, when you put it like that it's a wonder this thing wasn't cracked by a kindergartner two and a half years ago. :)
Dang, I was just going to try this... (ha ha) geohot: well actually it's pretty simple geohot: i allocate a piece of memory geohot: using map_htab and write_htab, you can figure out the real address of the memory geohot: which is a big win, and something the hv shouldn't allow geohot: i fill the htab with tons of entries pointing to that piece of memory geohot: and since i allocated it, i can map it read/write geohot: then, i deallocate the memory geohot: all those entries are set to invalid geohot: well while it's setting entries invalid, i glitch the memory control bus geohot: the cache writeback misses the memory :)
geohot: and i have entries allowing r/w to a piece of memory the hypervisor thinks is deallocated
geohot: then i create a virtual segment with the htab overlapping that piece of memory i have
geohot: write an entry into the virtual segment htab allowing r/w to the main segment htab
geohot: switch to virtual segment
geohot: write to main segment htab a r/w mapping of itself
geohot: switch back
geohot: PWNED
geohot: and would work if memory were encrypted or had ECC
geohot: the way i actually glitch the memory bus is really funny
geohot: i have a button on my FPGA board
geohot: that pulses low for 40ns
geohot: i set up the htab with the tons of entries
geohot: and spam press the button
geohot: right after i send the deallocate call
Trying and failing where none have succeeded before does not a "hack" make.
If indeed he simply duplicated what someone else has done before then that does diminish this acheivement, but I have heard nothing of the sort, you are an AC, and have not provided any citations.
Your ad hominem attack, and your unprovoked lashing out at game piraters makes me think that you have a personal stake in this somehow. Without citations, I'm going to go ahead and say you are full of shit.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Will I be able to install Linux on it now? If so, I will buy one.
Don't buy a PS3 simply for the sake of installing Linux on it. The PS3 only has 256MB of system RAM and Linux does not run well at all on it (I know this from personal experience with a PS3-specific Linux flavor). Just build a computer for $500.
Release _your_ PS3 hack, then.
Don't have one, do you?
Jackoff. Again, some Slashdotter thinks they're so much smarter than people who actually DO newsworthy things, but does nothing but post online as an armchair expert.
Anyone have any feeling that after years of finally unraveling the PS3 hardware Sony is going to beam you up to their stolen Ghoa'uld space ship and tell you their the Illuminati and they plan to release an upgraded version of J.C. Denton on the world, but they need you to program his nanobots first?
Not only is he a hack on this (this is not an exploit), but even in the iPhone scene, he took credit for *a lot* of other peoples work. The kid is an attention whore and a tool, and surely had hopes this would get him pussy.
We're going to get you GeoFagz. You've fucked with the wrong people.
Nope, I think not.
I have a life to get back to and can't keep working on this all day and night.
If you consider bitching on Twitter a life, sure!
The PS3 supports MPEG-4 ASP, VC-1, H.264 for video and AC-3, MP3, LPCM, DTS-HD, Dolby TrueHD, etc for audio. What formats are you trying to play that you have to transcode?
I wonder what this means for Blue-Ray. It could be a major blow to Blue-Ray protection if this somehow allowed the interception of the encryption keys.
I did the linux thing on a ps3. You are right it is horrible. If you were into hacking yeah it might be fun. But just to mess around with. Painful.
I bought a netbook put linux on it and am having a blast.
I could use my ps3 for linux but to run it solid 24/7 would cost me a fortune. Can do the same with my netbook for 1/10th the cost.
It was one of those things where someone could have done something interesting with it but sony locked out the interesting bits except cell.
It could have been a very capable media center type thing. But Sony killed that quick for some reason.
With no linux on the slim, I think it is a pretty safe assumption that Sony has not been planning on allowing linux on the PS4. I highly doubt that Sony can effectively retroactively remove linux support from older PS3's, and if this hack really means nothing, then I really doubt Sony would go out of their way to punish PS3 users in general.
Either this hack is worth something, and will positively aid the PS3 hacking comunity, or it is worthless and nothing will change.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
This is because of the restrictions applied. Without these restrictions the PS3 could be a very powerful Linux box with excellent home theatre possibilities.
If you have physical access to the circuit board then frankly short of encrypting every single data and address line theres not much any company can do to prevent hack attempts.
It doesn't support the mkv container, which it should, since it's now reconized by DivX (v7) and the PS3 is DivX certified.
http://www.divx.com/en/mkv
http://support.divx.com/faq/view/supportFAQen038/DivX%20on%20the%20Sony%20Playstation%203
Until included natively, PS3MediaServer is the best solution - real time transcoding as the GP said.
it's in my head
Awww, AC iphone 'hacker' tough guys.
How cute.
Right on target. His handling of the situation is on par with his handling of the early iPhone. That is to say, the one thing he really knows how to hack is media coverage.
He walked two steps into a mile-long walk, and announced each one to the world. Then he realized that he wasn't going to get past the third step, so he's trying to abort in the most graceful manner for his ego, announcing his two steps as a breakthrough that others should pick up and improve upon.
The reality of the situation is that geohot doesn't really know what he's doing here, and in fact did not develop this hack alone (he has discreetly acknowledged other people somewhere in the middle of his blog's comments). He thought he was onto something, but now he's stuck. The Cell BE is quite a bit more secure than he thought, and the "holy grail" (the isolated SPE) is still completely secure, hypervisor hack or no hypervisor hack.
The sad part is that he'll probably take credit for anything done to the PS3 now, especially if it's even remotely related to what he did.
I've just bought a Point Of View Intel Atom 330 / nVidia Ion motherboard, case and RAM - total cost was well under £200 and it does pretty well as a home theatre system.
http://blog.nexusuk.org
Aye, being able to run LINUX on a console is an impressive feat but the limited RAM severely limits actual usability.
Success? The Xbox cost MS millions, and from what I can tell they are still trying to pay it back with the 360 which just recently *may* have turned a profit. The reason I say may is because of the way MS has it's divisions organize group Mac software (highly profitable) with Xbox HW.
The memory is by definition not secure (it's not encrypted nor signed). Therefore reading out all the memory isn't a hack, it's just a cute trick. Sure, the PS3 isn't designed to let you do that, but it's also designed such that doing it doesn't gain you much.
Oh, shit, I hope Sony has heard about this!
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
funny but Sony supported installing Linux on earlier versions.
Why not install Linux if you can? The PS3 is also a really cheap way to play with writing code for the CELL.
See my blog http://ilovecookes.blogspot.com/ for light hearted technical information.
FTA - Sony has stopped supporting the "OtherOS" feature in the PS3 slim. Mr. Hotz used a bit of code while running Linux as the "OtherOS." So initially it looks like No it won't work on the PS3 Slim. But this may lead to other exploits which may work on that model.
With no linux on the slim, I think it is a pretty safe assumption that Sony has not been planning on allowing linux on the PS4.
Cant say i agree with you there, the larger PS2 had a linux distro (which came with a keyboard and hard drive as a kit) - it was unavailable for the ps2 slim. They did something similar with the ps3, no reason to believe they wont on the ps4.
"goodbye and hello, as always" ~Prince Corwin, from Zelazny's Amber series
Can somebody please explain to me why a kernel module (with fewer privileges than the HV) is able to create a "virtual segment, indicating that the hypervisor should store the HTAB associated with it at a specific address."?
I guess that functionality is needed somehow, and therefore accessible to kernel modules;
otherwise it would not make sense to me that they exposed unnecessary calls that mess with sensible stuff like the HTAB location (which contains the main segment, etc..) and ultimately lead to exploits like this.
Any insight, thoughts?
I would certainly agree with that. As you say, there are much better deals, price/performance-wise.
PHEM - party like it's 1997-2003!
There's an illiterate buffoon called "HighGuy" who runs around all of the PS3 forums claiming to have hacked the PS3, but his hacks are always a few weeks from release. He spits out jargon like j-tags, hello-worlds, grub, linux, ubuntu, but he obviously doesn't know what any of those things are. He claims to have hacked a CoD4 save game and installed grub in it using Ubuntu, that way when you load the game it will use DOS to boot into whatever code you want. But, he even admits, he doesn't know any programming so he can't really do much with that, just basic "helloworlds". Then, right when he was about to release, look, it melts his PS3 chips. "But I think some soldier and maybe it works again. But we can't really use this hack it overloads the chips and makes them melt the boards". Anybody who calls him on his bullshit gets flamed by his legions of fans, plus gets him to threaten to never release it as punishment for doubting him and being jealous of his hacker skills. Meanwhile, people who make legitimate strides are shat all over by his legion of fans, for ripping him off, "HighGuy was doing this a year ago, poser!" Just like Mr. AC here ;)
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI
I mean, he needs to block the HV correcting the tables, and presses a button to do that. But... that requires serious timing, as the call is made and directly after that he has to block the memory access with the pulse. To me this seems impossible to do, or he can start jamming the signal BEFORE the call is made, but that would potentially ruin the call in the first place.
Never underestimate the relief of true separation of Religion and State.
This is because of the restrictions applied. Without these restrictions the PS3 could be a very powerful Linux box with excellent home theatre possibilities.
Probably but the PS/3 "as is" provides pretty much exceptional home theatre possibilities out of the box. Including licensed codecs and BD support. Not sure I would use Linux on the PS/3 for that. I'd probably build a HTPC with XBMC which is quite impressive.
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Th PS3 is far more than a GAMING console.
Otherwise it would not come with folding@home preinstalled, you wouldn't get the option of installing another OS on it, and you most certainly wouldn't get the social networking garbage that is sony@home, nor would you get web browsing access.
The PS3 is most certainly not just a gaming console.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
It is only slow because you're doing it wrong and the hypervisor has access restricted.
256MB of XDR has enough bandwidth to match 2GB DDR.
Once the hack is properly applied/vetted and people actually get direct memory access, you can almost guarantee that PS3 specific Linux flavors will run much faster than you ever thought possible.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
The limited RAM does nothign to limit usability - this is all the hypervisor.
A decade ago a system with XDR and Cell, even with only 256MB of RAM, would've been considered insane excess.
Learn how to program, you likely don't need more than 128 megs of RAM anyways. Learning how to write tight code is the trick.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
256MB of XDR has enough bandwidth to match 2GB DDR.
Wrong. It doesn't matter how fast your RAM is if you don't have enough... and 256MB isn't enough to do a whole lot.
Dude, for the record I learnt 6510 on the 64 and 68000 on an Amiga where hundreds and hundreds of lines of assembler rarely produced more than a couple of dozen kilobytes of code, but its not raw code that takes up in a modern OS.
Exactly. The only thing this does is remove the HV restrictions on the OtherOS. That will in no way allow any sort of manipulation of the GameOS. The sad thing is that George actually believes he unlocked it saying... "The system isn't locked, you have access to everything now. The root key can't be dumped, it can only be used, and is similar to many other crypto engines on platforms that have widely been considered hacked, such as the iPhone and PSP" Obviously he didn't read up on how the Cell BE works and is completely delusional if he thinks it's anything like the iPhone or PSP. It's really not that hard for even a non-technical person to see that getting past the HV doesn't do any good by reading this http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/power/library/pa-cellsecurity/
"Learn how to program, you likely don't need more than 128 megs of RAM anyways. Learning how to write tight code is the trick."
Unless you expect me to rewrite KDE and Firefox, your advice is not too useful. Even if I make my own apps very tiny, the off-the-shelf applications I prefer are major memory hogs.
I'm impressed by what this fellow has done, and I want to learn more about hardware and memory manipulation because I'm very curious. My own formal and self-taught programming background is very weak on low level stuff, and while it doesn't hurt my web development skills it bothers me. But in terms of big news, hacking the PS3 near launch when 256 MB of RAM and multi-core CPUs were much more expensive would have been more noteworthy.
Yes, yes, and I use mine as a bluray/DVD player, media console and webbrowser.
Regardless it is NOT a PC, and I fail to see any benefit of installing Linux on it other than saying 'hey look what I can do!' Interesting academic exercise, but practically pointless.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Ironic that a modern digital device succumbs to an analogue hack.
You must be a shitty programmer is 256MB isn't enough to do a whole lot, especially given the bandwidth of XDR.
No, the new certification is known as DivX Plus HD. PlayStation 3 doesn't support that. DivX Plus HD and DivX certifications are two different things.
Not to mention ".ogm" ...which almost all of my media is in (i couldn't imagine converting all of it either...it would probably kill my hard drives). I've been using MediaTomb to transcode though.
In AD 2010, War was beginning...
SONY President: What happen?
Kanna Shimizu: Somebody set up us the bomb.
Kanna Shimizu: We get 40ns signal.
SONY President: What?
Kanna Shimizu: Main screen turn on.
SONY President: It's you!
GeoHot: How are you gentlemen!!
GeoHot: All your base are belong to us.
GeoHot: You are on the way to destruction.
SONY President: What you say!!
GeoHot: You have no chance to survive make your time.
GeoHot: Ha Ha Ha Ha.
Hah, thanks for the heads up! Googled him, and there's some brilliant entertainment there :D
Quote - a random comment from him:
Comment by HighGuy ....hahaha fuck well ya anyways I will let ya in on this much cod 4 ufo .......fuck lots of code ....and I hate reading ..........not saying how I get console or nuthin.g but I do crash my ps3 and hard lol so far it seems to boot my code and still leaves me in the ps3 iitself (xml) but the game ps its not cod4 crashes and drops me into my shell ......I got basic basic damb basic commands aka dir and that's about it ......im thinking of poring dos into this next but thers the issue I've bricked my outher ps3 and my wife wants to kill me..and I don't wana brick my 60 so I lost the best working copy need to go back and rewright what I lost and ya so stay high but I have had luck ps no game name is the same and some details may be alterd for the sake of us hackers
2009-10-16 15:27:27
hey guys a update it seems console is visibule but I don't know the ps3 core commands or adresses
Either a very good troll (judging by the other comments), or he's a poser :)
More entertainment at http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2009/10/15/homebrewed-ps3-system-file-editor-v0-80-released/
It's The Golden Rule: "He who has the gold makes the rules."
Pointless?
A PS3 with a Linux install on it adds even more functionality to the thing. GameOS's Netfront is sucky, but under Linux you've got Firefox and Opera. GameOS can't view and print PDF's but you can under Linux. You've got all the usual 'nix tools and whatnot, LaTeX, vim, gcc, nethack. One of the first things I did when I got my PS3 was download YDL and install it.
Though I freely admit I had Linux on my PS2 as well.
Yes, you just proved my point. Interesting but pointless.
What can you do with a Linux PS3 that you cannot do with a PC? And can you still play PS3 games, or watch bluray disks on it in that configuration? No.
So again, interesting but pointless.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
You do know that Linux on the PS3 works similar to a "dual-boot" sort of thing? You can boot between what Sony calls OtherOS (Linux) and GameOS (the PS3's regular functionality) as you desire.
It's all about added functionality. Imagine a 1 PC household, yes, it seems Slashdot readers have a dozen PC's and a rack of servers in the garage, but most families don't. Imagine the PC is occupied and you want to read your e-mail and print some documents yourself and say you've got a PS3. It essentially means you don't just have 1 PC, you have two.
Which distro? Which window manager/desktop? You weren't trying to run a full KDE/Gnome environment on the thing, were you?
There's plenty of ways to optimize the PS3 Linux experience, shutting down unecessary services, not using GDM and booting straight into a text console, using Fluxbox, enabling VRAM swap, using lightweight applications, all sorts of easy things. I know because I've done it, and have Yellow Dog Linux 6.2 installed on mine.
It's also kind of funny that people are saying 256MB isn't enough when that was a common amount for WinXP machines to have not so many years ago.
Usability for what purposes? I've done all sorts of things on mine. Edited photos, created documents, etc.
They've already removed OtherOS, and who cares about comprimising the key. He's lifted the hood on the GPU and other parts finally allowing Linux to use the full power avaliable. It's a great day for homebrew and Linux on the PS3, not so great for weenie piwates.
Well I installed Linux on my PS3 so that it could be a little more useful... running lightweight applications simply because those are the only things I can run (as opposed to because the applications I want to run happen to be lightweight) is more of a hassle than it's worth.
It's also kind of funny that people are saying 256MB isn't enough when that was a common amount for WinXP machines to have not so many years ago.
Yeah, and it wasn't enough.
I swear to God, just reading that little blurb made part of my brain melt. If your link leads to more of *that* I'd humbly request we classify your post as a weapon of potential mass destruction.
People replying to my sig annoy me. That's why I change it all the time.
Don't buy a PS3 simply for the sake of installing Linux on it.
I can't disagree, but I think it should be viewed as a gaming system. Installing Linux may be like the pre-alpha version of a PC's live disc, but it has the relatively new, obscure game with a cult-following - messing with 'nix on a console.
Installing Ed's Debian on my Xbox served no purpose, but it sounded like a good way to fill my afternoon. Lacking a keyboard, all interaction was done via SSH instead of using the controller's limited bash interactivity; so I did a classic ifdown eth0..oh wait..crap. Then it was pure puzzle, making the lock picking in more recent games feel like pipe dream.
You're presented with a screen's worth of command history and output, the ability to copy, paste, and an Enter key. All you have to do is find your option, or path(s) of options, accurately predicting the output to know how much backlog will be flushed. Difficulty modes are set via router configuration, e.g. disabling DHCP, blocking communication between certain class 3 subsets, etc.
Was there a point? I have no idea, but it's a great game :)
Ok sure - I can see once in a blue moon where you may be able to trick yourself into thinking the waste of time was justified. But if I had to read and print an email that urgently, I'd boot whoever was on the PC off for the 30 seconds it took to do that instead of trying to dual boot a PS3 and kicking off whoever was watching the TV.
So if PS3 already supports Linux, then what is the point of hacking it?
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Installing Linux on a PS3 is reasonably quick and easy, and once you've done it, you've got more functionality. If you can't think of uses for a "second computer" then I'll have to revoke your geek card. In 1 PC households people can become protective of their computer time and can/do refuse to relinquish the PC. Also, booting into Linux on the PS3 is a menu option in GameOS, it's fast and easy.
Personally, my PS3 setup is probably different from most folks, it isn't hooked up the main TV in the living room but sits on a desk with a 19" HDTV, with keyboard, mouse, external USB drive and laser printer attached. (And my SNES, NES and a PS2, also sit on shelf on that desk)
What's the point in hacking the PS3 if it runs Linux? Well the new slims don't have the option to install or boot into Linux. Some people also don't like the hypervisor restrictions Though I did figure that when the OtherOS support was removed from the slim, that's when the hacking attempts would really get going, since many of the things people hack their consoles for like playing SNES ROMS and the like, one can already do that under Linux.
Do you know what I think the worst thing about Linux on the PS3 is? It's the hard drive partition options in GameOS. You can either give 10GB to Linux and the rest to GameOS, or 10GB to GameOS and the rest to Linux. Neither one is optimal and I'd prefer to split the drive in half or have a custom partition option.
I've tried getting into that discussion with the Linux-guys once, and trust me, it's not worth it. They will point you at some nutcase, somewhere in the world, who hacked 15 PS3s together and cured some type of cancer with it, that only he had.
Linux-geeks want to install their fetish-OS on anything that has any kind of processing power, even if it's a smart toaster
comment by HighGuy 2009-10-16 09:36:22 or rilly your all on the ball and plz (sony rep) if ur reading this you better run to ur boss for that big raze u want cuz we will hack this fucking thing with passion this new system mod is butifule make my shit work .if you haven’t been keeping up with me I have now thismorning got a console mode in gta 4 woot woot time for a hoot but im not realesing shit for the fact I want time to play and work with this befor sony can ever fuck me up so the un hackuble ha fuck you ..sorry to be rude but im a idiot rilly but I have worked hard and will need help soon so dave get lerning im 26 past my prime liike alex but kid ull take my shit to were wee need it .give me a month and I will give uu my shit ok be pationt and if sony thinks they have any idea on what I got ha fuckem just have faith in me the unhackuble coment motevated me more so stay high and sorry for beeing a hipocrit but you know
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Comment by alex
2009-10-16 09:59:15
OH HighGuy WHYYY would you name the game bro. hopefully you are lying about the game because sony can just make a new patched GTA 4.
they did it with gta vice city for psp and lumines for psp.
so just watch what you say bro.
you got to be all ninja about these things
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Comment by Dave
2009-10-16 13:29:47
Yea alex is right. It’s okay tho, u didn’t say HOW or WHAT udid with the game, but Sony will pull the game apart if they want LOL
And highguy, I still need to learn how to make hello worlds, I’m only good at working with hacks that were already made. BUT I have a friend my age that can help me out as well in this. A couple ppl actually, one of it friends hacked his cable box and he gets free movies and shit he’s maaaaaad good with that kind of stuff. He has the blue tooth hack on his moto razr look it up haha but yea high guy ur right. ” hack the unhackable ” pissed me off. Not pissed at greg, but the fact that technically it’s true. [ FOR THE TIME BEING ] [[ fuk Sony ]]
I’m going to spend time with c++ tools and find an exploit.
Learn how to program, you likely don't need more than 128 megs of RAM anyways. Learning how to write tight code is the trick.
what makes 128mb the magic number? or was that just a random selection?
"So if PS3 already supports Linux, then what is the point of hacking it?"
Turn your geek card in, NOW. Better access to the hardware to allow for full exploitation of the hardware capabilities so you essentially have a pretty good mid-range PC (given the graphics chipset) for like $250.
Linux is pretty good at making use of available RAM - even moreso when you're NOT RESTRICTED.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
But so? What can you do with it?
This seems as useful as a flying toaster or geothermally powered airplane.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
Well, he could dedicate even more power from the system into folding@home, or maybe use it as an extended media center. Is your imagination that limited?
Well, he could dedicate even more power from the system into folding@home
I doubt you would see any difference in processing power.
or maybe use it as an extended media center
How is that different from what the PS3 can already do?
Is your imagination that limited?
Yours seems to be if thats all you can come up with..
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.