News: PlayStation 3 Hack Released Online

[News Bot]

itwbennett writes "On Friday, George Hotz, best known for cracking Apple's iPhone, said he had managed to hack the PlayStation 3 after five weeks of work with 'very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.' Days later, he has now released the exploit, saying in a blog post that he wanted to see what others could do with it. '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,' he wrote. 'I have a life to get back to and can't keep working on this all day and night.'" Reader MBCook points out an article written by Nate Lawson "explaining how the hack bypasses the hypervisor to gain unrestricted access to memory. It seems the trick is to use a pulse to glitch the hypervisor while it's unmapping memory, leaving a favorable page table entry."

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[AlexGold]

From the moment Sony announced the first PS3 I knew that someone somewhere is figuring out how to hack it. I think it would be at least a couple of years till we can burn PS3 games at home. But I bet that's being worked on also.

[Ze-Tomb]

Smart.
Release a hack online.
Sony will never find it.

Well if any screws over their PS3, their fault. hehe