The hacker behind the first proper breach of the PlayStation 3 (PS3) console's security has released the exploit for others to tinker with. It won't let you launch a "hello world" program easily, but its definitely a start for others who are up to the challenge now. George Hotz (geohot), known for his work Apple's iPhone, ran a blog for a few weeks following his efforts to crack the console ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by borhan9: Nice progress. only the beginning of many good things to come.
I don't think it's going to happen. The xbox 360 got hacked just because of the drives. They have older xboxes running homebrew but that's it the ps3 and newer systems after this will probably be unhackable except nintendo consoles lol
Originally posted by borhan9: Nice progress. only the beginning of many good things to come.
I don't think it's going to happen. The xbox 360 got hacked just because of the drives. They have older xboxes running homebrew but that's it the ps3 and newer systems after this will probably be unhackable except nintendo consoles lol
Yes, people are getting WAY too excited about this. The Cell BE itself has internal security structures that cannot be hacked through either software OR hardware means (even the HyperVisor cannot access it)...if games and the GameOS itself (including the HyperVisor) is at all utilizing that security, decryption to fully reverse engineer is virtually impossible. There is a chance, though, that Sony may not have fully encrypted something.
Personally, I'm only hopeful for full RSX access in Linux, like was apparently possible in pre-2.x FW versions.
Originally posted by xnonsuchx: Yes, people are getting WAY too excited about this. The Cell BE itself has internal security structures that cannot be hacked through either software OR hardware means (even the HyperVisor cannot access it)...if games and the GameOS itself (including the HyperVisor) is at all utilizing that security, decryption to fully reverse engineer is virtually impossible. There is a chance, though, that Sony may not have fully encrypted something.
Personally, I'm only hopeful for full RSX access in Linux, like was apparently possible in pre-2.x FW versions.
While PS3 OS homebrew would be cool and fun to be able to write programs with that much available resources, I personally don't expect anything overnight. I would like to see the otherOS opened up to homebrew though. An operating system capable of using the processor would have a lot of resources available to it.
