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Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible'
An anonymous reader sends this excerpt from PSGroove.com:
"Graf_chokolo, who has contributed countless things to the PS3 scene, had his private home raided by police this morning. They confiscated all of his 'accounts' and anything related to PS3 hacking. Some of you may remember that graf_chokolo promised if he was pushed, that he would release all of his PS3 hypervisor knowledge to the world. He kept good on this promise, releasing what is being dubbed as the Hypervisor Bible. 'The uploaded files contains his database, which is a series of tools for the PS3's Hypervisor and Hypervisor processes. It will help other devs to reverse engineer the hypervisor of PS3 further.'"
Right. To recap: CD rootkit, malicious CD drives (see http://kerneltrap.com/node/471 ) and now the PS3 crap. Anybody buying sony is just asking to be screwed.
Nah, we've got our own thanks to the EUCD. :-(
Every bloody emperor has his hand up history's skirt [Peter Hammill/VdGG]
Okay, to be fair, I just found out that Kotaku reports getting confirmation from SCEE. I don't exactly consider kotaku (or SCEE for that matter) to be completely infallible, but at least this beats blog comments.
Nonetheless, I still think this makes no sense, if it did actually take place. If it did, graf_chokolo's reaction is, to put it bluntly, stupid (at the very least, his database, which by its nature contains a full copy of the hypervisor, is copyright infringement if nothing else). Bad plan if you are in fact the target of legal action. He needs a lawyer ASAP.
There is no evidence that the police "busted down" his door. I did a little googling after I read the previous comment that referred to that and discovered two things. First, the site linked in the summary is a site that doesn't actually go out and find news. They just report stories that they find that are of interest to their readers. Second, none of the other sites which reported on this story contained such a picture, and all of them talked very generically about the police raiding his house and seizing his equipment. This means that there is no report local to Graf_chokolo of the police conducting a SWAT style raid. As a matter of fact, from the tone of the other reports, I would have to conclude that the police showed up at his door with a warrant and knocked.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
The original uploads are missing. Good thing it's now on the Pirate Bay.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6197257/coolstuff.rar