PS3 Hacker Claims He's Jailbroken 3.60 Firmware

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."

Comments

Unbreakable?

[Drakkenmensch]

The more you increase your security to keep hackers out, the more feverishly they'll work to take down what they see as a challenge.

Re:Unbreakable?

[abigsmurf]

The more hassle it is to play catchup, the less people who'll use firmware hacks for piracy. Sony don't have to win, they just have to put up a fight.

Re:Unbreakable?

[Anonymous Coward]

Hassle? What hassle? Maybe I'm naive (I'm not), but the best hackers that actually crack this stuff are not normally major players in the piracy scenes. They do it for the lulz and the notoriety.

I busted my PS2 years and years ago trying to solder something in. That was a hassle. Then not 3 months later someone released a softhack that runs off a USB stick. Got a new machine and it works perfectly ever since. First-run hacks are a hassle. Wait long enough and somebody will put together a GUI auto-installer. There's got to be some kind of internet rule for that.

For a user into homebrew or running "image backups" there's no playing catch up, there is only waiting for the next patch that is confirmed to work. Which is really only a hassle for kids that don't have anything else to do except play every new game the day of release, or people like me into obscure arcade ROMs that nobody is in a hurry to make run properly.

Am I going to get sued

[Tigger's Pet]

Is Sony going to come after me for reading TFA? Do we now need to start incorporating "Caution: Reading the following article may result in you being sued to the ends of the earth" logos over the top of stories?

Re:This is why we can't have nice things!

[sexconker]

As a PS3 owner, I say more power to them. Sony stole from me when they removed the OtherOS feature.

Basically this.
I'm normally against piracy, but Sony started this war. I'll fight back by never giving them another dollar. And I won't let that get in the way of my enjoying game that happen to be on their platforms.

Re:This is why we can't have nice things!

[click2005]

I'll fight back by never giving them another dollar.

You're going to stop buying games?

Sony gets a percentage of game sales. Its why they subsidize the initial cost of the console.

Re:Is DRM conceptually useless?

[MozeeToby]

The PS3's DRM was unbroken for half a decade. Now, part of the reason it was so successful was because enthusiasts had access to many features they wanted via the OtherOS functionality, but the fact remains that there was virtually zero piracy of PS3 games for the first 5 years of it's life cycle. Even today with much of the DRM defeated, Piracy rates are still next to zero. Now compare that to the average nerdy college dorm room with a hacked XBox playing downloaded copies of everything from the latest AAA titles to old Atari games (though I suppose you could always play old games via emulators in Linux on the PS3).

Re:This is why we can't have nice things!

[h4rr4r]

1. And you only beat your wife when she really deserves it?
2. the hypervisor crippled the box.

Re:This is why we can't have nice things!

[Anonymous Coward]

You can't have nice things because you gave Sony money, one of the worst companies on this planet. And then you sit and bitch about the people who are trying to use the hardware the way they choose? Holy fuck man, people like you are the reason we can't have nice things Tr3vin

Re:Is DRM conceptually useless?

[PRMan]

Nobody was motivated, because of Other OS.