PlayStation 3 exploit released, hackers rejoice

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http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/ps3-bomb-20100123-250a.jpg (http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/2010/01/heres-your-silver-platter.html)In case you ever doubted his feat, or you simply wanted to recreate for sport, iPhone hacker extraordinaire George "Geohot" Hotz (http://www.engadget.com/tag/georgehotz) has released the exploit code he devised for properly hacking the PS3 (http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/23/ps3-finally-properly-hacked/). This should give any aspiring minglers full memory access, and while he's only tested it with firmware version 2.4.2, he "imagine[s] it works on all current versions." A guide might follow sometime in the future, he says, but if you're really antsy to get your coding kicks, we wouldn't wait up.

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