[Jason]

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In a post titled "Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot," hacker George Hotz (already known in the iPhone community) has made a strong claim: that he has cracked the PS3. The system has remained (mostly) uncompromised for over three years now, with a few exceptions here and there. But, this one pledges full read/write access to the entire system memory and complete control over the processor -- all without a mod chip. Has he really done it, if so how, and what comes next? That all remains to be seen. This exploit supposedly "isn't really patchable, but [Sony] can make implementations much harder," meaning he isn't tipping his hat until he's ready, because once he does the never-ending firmware update war begins, and as we've seen on the PSP, Sony can really knock out those updates.

Source: Engadget

[apimpnamedslick]

Ah man!! i really hope he found a solution.
Makes the decision to buy a PS3 a lot more easier for me:)

[Sp4rkR4t]

apimpnamedslick, on 24 January 2010 - 01:24 AM, said:

Ah man!! i really hope he found a solution.
Makes the decision to buy a PS3 a lot more easier for me:)

He has found a solution, and he managed to dump lv0 & lv1 one of the ROM and the full NAND. The next bit is reversing everything he has gotten his hands on into a workable custom firmware or homebrew enabler.

He's working his way through reversing the function calls quite fast as well. (see pic)

http://2.bp.blogspot...0-h/hvcalls.PNG

[apimpnamedslick]

Sp4rkR4t, on 24 January 2010 - 01:44 AM, said:

apimpnamedslick, on 24 January 2010 - 01:24 AM, said:

Ah man!! i really hope he found a solution.
Makes the decision to buy a PS3 a lot more easier for me:)

He has found a solution, and he managed to dump lv0 & lv1 one of the ROM and the full NAND. The next bit is reversing everything he has gotten his hands on into a workable custom firmware or homebrew enabler.

He's working his way through reversing the function calls quite fast as well. (see pic)

http://2.bp.blogspot...0-h/hvcalls.PNG

haha those codes doesn't really say a lot to me ...but glad to hear this good message

[Arthur Hucksake]

apimpnamedslick, on 24 January 2010 - 03:36 AM, said:

Sp4rkR4t, on 24 January 2010 - 01:44 AM, said:

apimpnamedslick, on 24 January 2010 - 01:24 AM, said:

Ah man!! i really hope he found a solution.
Makes the decision to buy a PS3 a lot more easier for me:)

He has found a solution, and he managed to dump lv0 & lv1 one of the ROM and the full NAND. The next bit is reversing everything he has gotten his hands on into a workable custom firmware or homebrew enabler.

He's working his way through reversing the function calls quite fast as well. (see pic)

http://2.bp.blogspot...0-h/hvcalls.PNG

haha those codes doesn't really say a lot to me ...but glad to hear this good message

I get the feeling there might be some hardware needed to make this workable, probably just a firmware update or two could stop this.

What i'm more interested in is if Sony will take on measures like Microsoft and start banning consoles from online play. I really don't think they would.

[Sp4rkR4t]

Arthur Hucksake, on 27 January 2010 - 07:47 AM, said:

I get the feeling there might be some hardware needed to make this workable, probably just a firmware update or two could stop this.

What i'm more interested in is if Sony will take on measures like Microsoft and start banning consoles from online play. I really don't think they would.

Yes it will be a mod chip solution in the end, no it will not be possible for sony to stop it with a firmware update. They can make life hard for people wanting to run pirated games but for the rest of us who just want full access to the PS3's power there is nothing they can do short of redesigning the entire system bus.