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."

Comments

'I have a life to get back to'

[Anonymous Coward]

How dramatic

Re:'I have a life to get back to'

[Vanderhoth]

Yeah, he thinks he's all special because he has a life or something.

Re:'I have a life to get back to'

[Sir_Lewk]

Only a slashdotter would think someone claiming to have a life is being dramatic.

"It seems the trick is to use a pulse..."

[Broken Bottle]

"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. :)

Re:"It seems the trick is to use a pulse..."

[nutshell42]

"Mr La Forge, how did you manage to disable the Borg Cube?"
"Sir, it seems the trick is to use a pulse to glitch the hypervisor while it's unmapping memory, leaving a favorable page table entry."

Honestly, if Star Trek had fed me that as techno babble I would've called bullshit. I'm deeply impressed that it actually means something and works.

Re:This guy is a hack, not a hacker.

[canajin56]

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 ;)