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PS3 Hacker Claims He's Jailbroken 3.60 Firmware

Posted by samzenpus on from the what-took-so-long? dept.

Wesociety writes "Not one week ago Sony released a new PlayStation 3 firmware update which implemented cloud-saving for its PlayStation Plus subscribers and featured some understandably secretive behind-the-scenes security features meant to prevent future hacking. Today, a hacker is purporting that he broke firmware 3.60 and posted a video to prove it."

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  1. Re:This is why we can't have nice things! by BtEO · · Score: 5, Informative

    Sony removed OtherOS from the Slim first. Then Geohot started poking around looking for ways to re-enable it.

  2. Re:This is why we can't have nice things! by Dorkmaster+Flek · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Slim never featured linux to begin with. They cut out the hardware to enable dual booting the way it had been done in other models to save costs.

    Except there was never any hardware required specifically to do that. Geohot got OtherOS working on the slim, thus proving that there was no technical limitation to running it there.

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