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Police Raid PS3 Hacker's House, Hacker Releases PS3 'Hypervisor Bible'

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-got-streisowned dept.

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.'"

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  1. Re:The moral/practical lesson of this story is by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  2. Re:Ownership? by Pogue+Mahone · · Score: 4, Informative

    Nah, we've got our own thanks to the EUCD. :-(

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    Every bloody emperor has his hand up history's skirt [Peter Hammill/VdGG]
  3. Re:This story doesn't make any sense by marcansoft · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Hypervisor Bible Download by JumperCable · · Score: 3, Informative

    The original uploads are missing. Good thing it's now on the Pirate Bay.

    http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6197257/coolstuff.rar