Sony moves to the next level, police raid graf_chokolo home!

[wraggster]

News via psxscene

It seems Sony is not happy with the long process of using American civil courts to fight off the PS3 hackers, and have decided to step up the war game to the next level, and have now got the German police on their side to raid early this morning graf_chokolo's home and take all his computers!


The following is some of the quotes taken from his blog:


Quote:
Originally Posted by graf_chokolo
February 23, 2011 at 11:52 am
Guys, SONY was today at my home with police and got all my stuff and accounts. So be careful from now on.

Quote:
Originally Posted by graf_chokolo
February 23, 2011 at 12:26 pm
Guys, i don’t joke, it’s serious.
And to prove it, i kept my word and uploaded all my HV reversing stuff.
Upload it everywhere so SONY couldn’t remove it easily. Grab it guys, it contains lots of knowledge about HV and HV procs.

Here is my HV bible: Sendspace.com upload.com 2shared.com <- Coolstuff.rar [164mb]

Quote:
Originally Posted by graf_chokolo
February 23, 2011 at 12:51 pm
IDA database is the documentation, it contains all my knowledge, Linux booting is also there. It contains all the code i used to patch HV 3.41 and boot Linux. So, PS3 devs, grab it and continue my work. It contains just everything i know about HV, storage devices and so on.

Quote:
Originally Posted by mecenefeaa
February 23, 2011 at 12:52 pm
this is not a scam i emailed graf and he confirmed the posts, and said not to email him anymore, it just seems like a scam due to the way things are playing out, but i swear its 100% not a scam as far as i know

Quote:
Originally Posted by mecenefeaa
February 23, 2011 at 1:26 pm
I can say with 99.9999999% percent positivity that its legit, thanks graf(:

Quote:
Originally Posted by mecenefeaa
February 23, 2011 at 1:36 pm
yea only admins like me and graf and dukio can(: and i extracted only like a fourth of the 165 megabyte rar and its lvl1, lvl2, and hv dumping and reversing for 3.15, 3.41 and 3.55 are there, theres more that ill look at later today when i get home, thanks graf(:

Quote:
Originally Posted by mecenefeaa
February 23, 2011 at 1:49 pm
me too EVERYONE DOWNLOAD so even if Sony removes the files they will still be everywere and so we can reupload! spread it like the keys!!

News Source: PS3 Development Page | graf_chokolo

[Shrygue]

Damn, this isn't good. So Sony thinks they can get the German police to go raid someone's house just like that? Didn't they even have a warrant from a court first? Seriously the whole PS3 hacking drama is getting ridiculous.

Btw, got the package, got loads of interesting hypervisor info in there.

[Fonixx]

If this is how they do things now i'm thinking apart from offering competition against MS (which they recently said they don't give a crap about doing), why do we want Sony in the console game anymore? And honestly i'll probably be struck down to Hell for even thinking it but i wouldn't mind seeing the back of Sony and get Apple in doing a console.