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PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade
Khyber writes "Hackers: 2 Sony: 0 — that's the current standing score now that the X3 team have successfully performed a jailbreak on the official 3.50 PS3 firmware, allowing homebrew applications and more to be enabled. Here's a video of the jailbreak in action."
Hard to say; dark, blurry video, with no commentary other than the groans of some mouth breather. All I know for certain is he owns a PS3 and a lighter.
http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2010/10/19/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/
Yes.
This video is terrible. Don't bother.
So I guess the real question now is what PS3 functionality Sony is going to cripple in the next forced upgrade to try to defeat this.
Why the hell is it called jail breaking when applying these modifications? It should have nothing to do with jail, and you're certainly not breaking it. I say, hence forth, we call it 'freedom upgrading'.
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It took 4 years to do this. I think Sony gets a few points for that.
This is largely unconfirmed and most likely fake - and I'll tell you why.
Check out the very end of the video, the "game" exits and a message is displayed in the top right corner. See that message? Retail consoles don't display that, but Debug/TEST consoles do. Any Debug unit can be upgraded to debug Firmware 3.50 and play all the homebrew out there.
+1 IDisagreeSoHeMustBeATrollOrAnAstroturferOrAShill
Do you have a better theory as to why the hacks only started about the time that Sony took that feature away? I know there was that one guy that claimed to have gained root. But he refused to actually release it and Sony reacted by taking away the Other OS feature and updating firmwares to fight the efforts.
It seems a bit much that it took this long for the first successful crack to appear and now they're coming out so quickly.
Sony is worse for having shipped the console touting its ability to run Linux, then removing that option remotely. I'm not a huge fan of any of the consoles, but neither Microsoft nor Nintendo can match Sony in asshatness.
"Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right" - Salvor Hardin
Furthermore, how can you possibly call the score 2-0 for the hackers? Sony closed the first hole! If the hackers score a point when they poke a hole in Sony's defenses, shouldn't Sony score for closing said hole? And shouldn't Sony ALSO score points for preventing the holes from being found in the first place? A game where you can only ever tie your opponent is no fun, after all. Although I suppose that would be an interesting metaphor for the war they're waging now; you can never win, all you can hope to do is not lose.
Wait a second, we've got RSX access?
WTF why isn't this the bigger story instead of mine? Screw my story!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
It is pretty silly that he spends most of it wandering the menus for seemingly no reason. Could have easily shown everything that needed to be shown in like 30 seconds.
Are you kidding. I love listening to overweight guys breath heavily while playing one-handedly with their game controller with a completely out of focus shaky cam. 10/10!!
At some point Sony decided that too many people were exploiting the OtherOS feature for piracy
You mean, zero? That's the amount of people who were exploiting OtherOS for piracy when Sony removed the functionality.
it's in my head
Me 1, Sony 0
If you don't buy from a company, you automatically win.