PlayStation 3 'hacked' by hardware crackers

[icestar2]

It's to late for them to do anything really now. Theres so many clones already being made and now the code is out it won't be long before they are in peoples hands. All Sony are doing is trying to buy more time so they can work a way to block it with a firmware update probably.

They'll want to send a forced update before people start using it and can block the firmware updates. That's if its even possible for them because if its hardware based then they are going to have a hell of a job.

[Ravenheart]

Sony have released a firmware update v3.42 no doubt to try and stop the hack.

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/...now-available/

Now we'll have a weekly firmware update like they did on the PSP

[icestar2]

From whats I've read it does patch the exploit. I don't think we'll be seeing updates every week though. It all depends on if it can be cracked again now.

They may have just removed the USB search before the console boots. If thats the case then the exploit is useless and another way in will have to be found. That being said once the doors are open its usually hard to fully close them again.

[mjpartyboy]

The PS3 has been fully cracked by George Hotz with help from some others:

"The complete console is compromised - there is no recovery from this,"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12116051

I see there are tuts on modifying updates upto 3.50 that allow homebrew and not piracy in the wild already

[Hiroki]

Anybody tried the hack? I like the idea of backing up my games to the harddrive if anything

[Bluffdemon]

You cant do anything yet with the cfw 3.55 , i had it running on my ps3 , the odd snes ,nes and megadrive emulator kind of works but thats about it

[Hiroki]

Hmm i'd use it for that but I wonder if that opens you up to being banned from psn if they found out you'd been playing snes games?

Originally Posted by Bluffdemon

You cant do anything yet with the cfw 3.55 , i had it running on my ps3 , the odd snes ,nes and megadrive emulator kind of works but thats about it

You could on the 16th and you can do even more now

Almost as soon as Geohot released his jailbreak there were tools to sign your own EBOOT files forcing the system to think its a game from PSN
Yesterday 17th tools were released ( but risk of brick) that supports back up managers

The PS3 is owned 90% the last 10% is getting a safe lv2 hack working

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Originally Posted by Hiroki

Hmm i'd use it for that but I wonder if that opens you up to being banned from psn if they found out you'd been playing snes games?

that inevitable

I got a Fatty with a red screen of death I am sending for repair tomorrow. Fortunatly it does not have a 256 meg nand so it should be ok. I am going to fully jailbreak this one and keep my slim for PSN

[Bluffdemon]

I would wait for a stable release but i think talking about this on this forum is a no no so i wont say anymore !

Well its not been confirmed if modifying the console is illegal Geohot is currently in court reguarding the leak of the Key but there is no ruling

[Bluffdemon]

well i know i wouldnt touch the latest cfw as its bricking more ps3 than ones that are working with cfw so deffo a no no for me !

well there are way more success stories than disaster stories where I have read. Most that are bricking are Fats with a 256 nand as I said

[Hiroki]

Is there any truth in the rumour that you can loose blu-ray playback if you jb the phat models?

Possibly I know there has been loss with downgrading but there is a way around it. Anyway Waninkoko is working on another release so fingers crossed