Geohot - PS3 Hacking News - PS3 Exploit Released

[wraggster]

More News from Geohot and the release of the PS3 Exploit:

In the interest of openness, I've decided to release the exploit. Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organize and figure out how to use this to do practical things, like the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released. I have a life to get back to and can't keep working on this all day and night.

Please document your findings on the psDevWiki. They have been a great resource so far, and with the power this exploit gives, opens tons of new stuff to document. I'd like to see the missing HV calls filled in, nice memory maps, the boot chain better documented, and progress on a 3D GPU driver. And of course, the search for a software exploit.

This is the coveted PS3 exploit, gives full memory access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. Enjoy your hypervisor dumps. This is known to work with version 2.4.2 only, but I imagine it works on all current versions.

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[ThatotherPerson]

Cool. I can't wait to see someone more knowledgeable then me take advantage of this and work out something useful with it.

[Shrygue]

I really think that this exploit should have been kept under wraps for a bit longer. I bet old Sony will take a good look at this and then work out what to patch up in the next firmware release, though I do understand it's a hardware based exploit. All the more for them to make things in terms of hacking the system harder. We'll see how it all pans outs though.

[Insomniac-Evolution]

Why longer? sony will patch anyway, thats inevitable, so people might aswell hack away now lol hopefully something useful happens by releasing it, big appreciation to who does

[steve520]

cross your fingers for a custom firmware lol.

[gr42178]

SWEEEEEEEEET cant wait to see nes/snes/n64 etc etc in 1080p!!!!!:thumbup:

[ED13]

SWEEEEEEEEET cant wait to see nes/snes/n64 etc etc in 1080p!!!!!:thumbup:

+10:thumbup:

[strider183]

sony better fix this fast! we all know what happen to the psp

[steve520]

sony better fix this fast! we all know what happen to the psp

lol what the homebrew, emulators, and many other advances which have come with the psp being hacked? If your referring to piracy i guess i understand but otherwise this is a great opportunity for homebrew developers and coders to make magic on the most powerful console.

[tinman]

I really think that this exploit should have been kept under wraps for a bit longer. I bet old Sony will take a good look at this and then work out what to patch up in the next firmware release, though I do understand it's a hardware based exploit. All the more for them to make things in terms of hacking the system harder. We'll see how it all pans outs though.

Geohot only hacked the PS3 to hack it, nothing more. He does care if Sony patches it.