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."

Comments

Re:ok ..

[xaoslaad]

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.

Re:ok ..

[jx100]

http://www.ps3-hacks.com/2010/10/19/asbestos-running-linux-as-gameos/

Yes.

2:40 minues of my life I'll never have back again

[Anonymous Coward]

This video is terrible. Don't bother.

We should follow the example of Stephen Colbert

[Hojima]

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'.

Re:We should follow the example of Stephen Colbert

[Anonymous Coward]

I prefer to call it a 'Consumer's Rights Rebalancing'.

Re:We should follow the example of Stephen Colbert

[EdIII]

I don't care if it is 100% "free entertainment". It is, always has, and always will be about freedom, liberty, and their crucial components, privacy and anonymity.

The PS3 is merely one small battle. The poster that said "Consumer Rights Rebalancing" had it right. This is very much about consumer rights, however, it should be about a larger issue. Rights all Americans, and free human beings, should have in cyberspace. That war is being fought with people largely ignorant of the whole affair or how important it is.

Let's face it. It would be far easier if the situation were explained thusly:

Sony, for the consideration of $600, and service fees, offers the consumer a PS3 entertainment console. There will be a Sony representative physically in your home at all times. Sony will decide what games will function, and what will not, at Sony's direct discretion at all times. All media, All software, All content is the direct property of Sony and can be altered or withdrawn at any time. Any services or features that were present at the time of purchase are not guaranteed to be present in the future. Attempts to remove the Sony representative from your home, or distract him from his official duties, in any way, is against the law and you will be prosecuted to its full extent. Guilt before innocence will be assumed in all cases.

Now, if you were offered that deal, would you accept it? No? Then why is DRM and protection mechanisms designed to take away your ability to peacefully enjoy your property any more acceptable?

I will stipulate that 100% of PS3 owners will commit copyright infringement. It still does not justify that Sony representative being in your house and your inability to actually enjoy the rights of property ownership over property you actually paid for.

The ends do not justify the means here. That goes not just for Sony, but for every manufacturer and content distributor. Stay. The. Fuck. Out. Of. My. Home.

4 years

[gilbert644]

It took 4 years to do this. I think Sony gets a few points for that.

Re:4 years

[Osgeld]

no one was really trying that hard for 3.5 of those 4 years, until they started removing features "just because"

sony's other current gen console has been gang rapped so many times they even removed the disc drive

Re:4 years

[Osgeld]

well the developing world is not buying 600$ consoles are they? (which is what it cost up till last year)

Not confirmed

[neokushan]

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.

Re:ok ..

[hedwards]

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.

Re:ok ..

[Mordok-DestroyerOfWo]

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.

Re:Interesting scorekeeping

[LrdDimwit]

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.

Re:So what does Sony break next?

[geminidomino]

If I tell somebody that I'm going to smack them if they don't stop whistling, and they continue to whistle, who is the person at fault?

Scary analogy. Have you ever uttered the phrase "Why you make me hit you, baby?"

Re:ok ..

[Khyber]

Wait a second, we've got RSX access?

WTF why isn't this the bigger story instead of mine? Screw my story!

Re:2:40 minues of my life I'll never have back aga

[blankoboy]

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!!