BREAKING NEWS - Hello Brave New World (2.0-2.8 tiff exploit)All PSP Firmwares Cracked

**b8a** · August 30th, 2006, 07:49

Originally Posted by Fanjita

Originally Posted by b8a

Obviously other people are thinking the same thing I am. But, like I was saying months ago, I really wish they would've kept an exploit THIS BIG under wraps until after the PS3 launch.

Frickin sweet that this exploit was found. Just wish they could've waited a few months to announce it. Hopefully a good usable exploit will be found in their next big firmware as well.

This keeps being said, but it's wrong.

Do you think we didn't think long and hard about the release schedule?

The simple fact is that this bug is already on the public buglists for libtiff, and in fact has been fixed on Mac OS X already. That means a public fix for libtiff is just around the corner.

Sony are not dumb any more when it comes to open source bugs... you can follow many fixes in libungif and libtiff through the various firmwares. You can bet your left nut (hell, you can bet mine if you like) that Sony would have included a fix for this in 3.0, regardless of whether we released anything.

So why wait?

First of all, thanks for all you've done for the homebrew community, Fanjita. All your work has been greatly appreciated. Thanks for addressing my post as well, it's always nice to know what's going through your guys' minds. There were just a few points I wanted to address.

First you said: This keeps being said, but it's wrong.
What's wrong? In case you didn't notice, I never stated any facts in there, other than the fact that I HAD said months ago that I was wishing that exploits for 2.60+ systems be kept under wraps until after the PS3 launch. And even when I was saying that months ago, I publicly acknowledged that that desire was purely my own opinion and that I knew any exploits would be released ASAP irregardless. So in reality, with the release of this exploit, it looks like, if anything, I was actually right.

Second, you said: Sony are not dumb any more when it comes to open source bugs
But I disagree that they were ever "dumb". But then again, I'm not one of the people who thinks that there's a war going on with Sony over homebrew (Despite the countless opportunities they've had to do so, I've still never read a single article which quotes Sony as being anti-homebrew). I think it's merely a case of differing priorities. Sony's a huge, lumbering corporation which is not only inefficient in many ways, but also has markedly different priorities from those of us in the homebrew community. Moves that we see as dumb may have merely been judgement calls, or even non-priorities on their part.

Which brings me to point three: Why wait?
On the off chance that they don't fix it. Yes, it's a gamble, but there'd be virtually nothing to loose even if it does get fixed. Yes, they almost certainly would have fixed it, but even if there had been a 1% chance of this going unfixed before, you have now pretty much reduced that chance to zero. Unfortunately now we'll never know since, while they haven't always been as proactive as they could be about shutting down security vulnerabilities, they have always made a point of addressing the specific vulnerabilites once they've crop up through homebrew sollutions.

Conversely, I'd like to ask, WHY release this now?
By all accounts, the next big firmware launch is a little over two months away, and, from what I've read, it's looking like this won't be of practical use to the community at large for at least another month. Which means that by the time anyone's using this on their PSP, the next firmware release will be just a few weeks away. Surely waiting a few weeks to see whether or not Sony does indeed patch it on their own would have been bearable?

Just to set the record straight, I do greatly appreciate the efforts of you and everyone involved in the development of this exploit. I'm not trying to be ungreatful or critical, it's just a little frustrating to think that we're so close to the release of what sounds like it could be the most important firmware release ever, and we couldn't even wait a couple of months to see if a known exploit for running homebrew would slide under the radar (!_!) Sigh...

Cheers my friend, and keep up the good work.

**BL4Z3D247** · August 30th, 2006, 08:00

someone said it was already confirmed that $ony patched this exploit in 3.0(don't know if it's true just what i heard someone say), thats why they are releasing it sooner than later...thats why he said why wait

**ronaldinho11** · August 30th, 2006, 09:27

Originally Posted by gizmo356

good thing sony is stupid

the same people that actually made tht psp you purachased? wow if theyre stupid they made something pretty good...

**817CH** · August 31st, 2006, 20:22

do u need gta Liberty City Stories to run this process? Im new here.

**FrierTuck** · August 31st, 2006, 20:24

no you dont, it runs from the pictures menu

**osiris661** · August 31st, 2006, 20:38

Man oh man this news makes me a happy clam

I just got my PSP which has 2.60 Firmware and the whole GTA thing is a bit annoying as I can't seem to find a non-patched version of it to be able to downgrade with. The only reason I purchased my PSP was for Homebrew. I love you all who work on the exploits and would gladly buy you many beers if I ever meet you. Keep up the AMAZING work!!!