PlayStation 3 Hack Released Online

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @03:57AM from the let-the-games-begin dept.

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."

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Works on PS3 slim? by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-27 04:00 · Score: -1, Redundant

Does this work on the PS3 slim? Will I be able to install Linux on it now? If so, I will buy one. I have not had enough of a reason to buy a PS3 before, but this will pretty much do it for me. It will be interesting to see if there is a sales spike because of it.