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Sony Has Lost the PS3 Hacking War

Posted by Soulskill on from the not-that-they'll-admit-it dept.

YokimaSun writes "Sony may have dealt a major blow to the PSjailbreak sellers, but the release last week of PSGroove, an open source version of the hack, has now opened the floodgates of ports to mobile phones such as the Nokia N900 and Palm Pre. The final kick in the teeth is that a port of the exploit has been released by Waninkoko of Wii custom firmware fame for the Dingoo Handheld, which is a homebrew console that is very popular amongst emulation fans. It makes you smile that you can use one homebrew console to hack another to get homebrew on that console. Awesome." pudge notes that you can apparently do the same with a TI-84 Plus graphing calculator (YouTube video).

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  1. Naturally, the usual OMGWTFPIRACY folks arrive... by sethstorm · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    So it enables piracy. But if it adds more functionality because of it, that much the better.

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  2. Re:It does make homebrew *possible*. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    More Soulskill fanboy nonsense.

    Sony hasn't lost anything. The only people about to lose anything, are those that heve ever plugged on of these in and run the backup manager. As the PS3 will report it next time you sign into PSN (regardless of if it's still plugged in or not).. PS3 tracks what games/apps you run, and sends that to Sony to update your trophycard.

    I can see quite a few idiots with permenent console bans. Besides the fact a mandatory firmware patch will be out soon enough and will be required to sign in to PSN, or to play GT5 or any of the other awesome PS3 titles this season...

  3. Re:Shame it had to come to this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hmm, I think you're deluding yourself, or lying for attention. The PS3 cells were available under OtherOS and Linux. Plenty of heavy duty number crunching projecs have been successfully powering through data for years. The limitation was access to the RSX, i.e. video hardware in real terms. Are you a 3D graphics coding guru? No, thought not. Furthermore, the PS3 has been out for almost 4 years. Be honest, you were never going to buy a PS3 were you.

  4. The Other OS option was used to hack it by judeancodersfront · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    That's why they removed it. It had already been used to compromise the security.

    I got voted down for pointing this out before, I guess some realities are just too harsh here? Or perhaps SONY BAD is the only acceptable opinion?

  5. Re:good they lost by judeancodersfront · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why are you blaming Sony and not the hacker that exploited OtherOS and ruined it for everyone else?