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Using Kexec Allows Starting Linux In PlayStation 4

Posted by timothy on from the wait-for-the-darpa-supercomputers dept.

jones_supa writes: Team fail0verflow, the hacker group who made Sony PlayStation 4, has introduced another method to start Linux in the game console. Instead of the previous exploit which was based on a security hole in an old PS4 firmware version, the new trick allows a kexec call to start Linux through Orbis OS (the FreeBSD-based system software of PS4). The code can be found in GitHub. Maybe this will lead to more and better PlayStation clusters.

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  1. Okay, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Launching Linux from FreeBSD is also known as "downgrade". Just sayin'

    1. Re:Okay, but by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Funny

      Launching Linux from FreeBSD is also known as "downgrade". Just sayin'

      Only if you'd run systemd.

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  2. I'm impressed by NotDrWho · · Score: 4, Funny

    Team fail0verflow, the hacker group who made Sony PlayStation 4

    Well if they built it in the first place, no wonder they're able to hack it.

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  3. How long by Dunbal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Downloading Steam games to play PC games under linux on a PS4... use an xbox controller to play that game and the universe might just end.

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  4. Re:What? by davester666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It was nice of them to turn over production of it to Sony.

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