George Hotz, a iPhone hacker who unlocked Apple’s iPhone, recently discovered a exploit on the PS3. Speaking to the BBC, he said the exploit “gives full memory space access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS.” He has since released the exploit on his blog, hoping to ignite the PS3 homebrew scene. The exploit is currently too complicated for just anyone to use it, but it could allow users to play pirated games.
It will take some time for any homebrew applications or workable hacks to appear as a result of this exploit. According to the BBC, Sony said it was “investigating the report” and would “clarify the situation” when it had more information.
In his blog post Hotz said, “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.”
Actually Sony and IBM designed the security in such a way, that if someone got into the Hypervisor as Geohot has [which is low level access], there’d still be a whole load of other security measures the hacker would need to bypass in order to run unsigned code. So at the moment, this exploit is pretty much useless. And I believe that’s why Geohot has released it and is trying to wash his hands from it because he’s hit a brick wall. That “life to get back to” is just a cheap excuse – I mean why would any hacker whose on the verge of cracking the most robust system suddenly wash his hands from it? Because he’s stuck that’s why!
Anyway, this is a victory for Sony, IBM, the games industry, and us legitimate gamers! 😀
If anyone is interested in knowing what this exploit means, read: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3hacked-article
even if the ps3 gets hacked , still not worth buying pirated games , why ? because you’d have to pay alot of acc and stuff , including a bluray driver writer and bluray discs and you gotta have like a 2 mb connection at least to download a 50 gig game , MGS4 !! , again sony will patch to prevent people from going on psn , like they did for the psp
Wow pirated ps3 games hey? I was curious when someone would begin to figgure this out.
I have no intention for pirated games though, I am extreamly picky with my games so when I do buy one, I belive the developer really deserves it.
Pirating games is stealing, and immoral. It hurts devs, the gaming platform and industry, and legitimate gamers. But anyway, the ps3 is still secure. So shame on the thieves!
We’ll have to wait and see then…