PlayStation 3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker

[huxley]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8478764.stm

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He admitted that it could also allow people to run pirated games.

"I'm not going to personally have anything to do with that," he told BBC News.


Good lad

[Flabio]

Still can't play copied games on it, so no.

[huxley]

Dont care about pirate games (people who play / purchase pirate games are retarded)
I`d like to see some region free ness for ps1 ps2 games and maybe Bluray.

[Flabio]

Worth reading the piece on Digital Foundry about it, they explain just how much further there is to go before the machine is totally wide open.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3hacked-article

[huxley]

A lot more in depth cheers.
His blog is that article http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/
Well written.

[EvilBoris]

Who says all hackers have to be weird looking geeks?

[Brad]

lmao! No way would I hack my PS3 anyway. Still, keeps him off the streets I guess.

[abigsmurf]

The level of security on the PS3 is pretty damn impressive. Protection layers heaped upon protection layer with a separate background process constantly checking to make sure the security isn't broken.

I hope it doesn't get broken to the extent of it allowing piracy. Would be interesting if they could enable a version of linux with full access to the GPU though. Would make for an unbeatable emulator/HTPC.

However it sounds like the process needed to break just the hypervisor is incredibly complex. Doubt it'll end up anything like as simple as the R4 or Homebrew Channel.

[EvilBoris]

The super giant built in HDD's could be painful for piracy. HOld onto your Fat PS3's and watch as they rocked in price!

[charlesr]

Why fatties in particular?

[SteveStuart]

I`d like to see some region free ness for ps1 ps2 games and maybe Bluray.

Would be amazing, especially if he could make my Jap-40gb play them too....

Not sure how he'd get round the lack of Pal output tho'?

[EvilBoris]

Needs Linux installed to run

[Goldenballs]

Could it realistically be made multi-region for Blurays then? That'd be nice.

[Flabio]

Could it realistically be made multi-region for Blurays then? That'd be nice.

Doubt it, I'd imagine all that stuff is in the drives firmware, and thats still secure.

[Kongster]

PSJailbreak