Hacker Unleashes PlayStation 3 Exploit
Geohot's cracked the PS3 wide open and he's showing everyone how he did it.
Earlier this week, famed iPhone hacker George Hotz proudly announced that he has successfully hacked the PlayStation 3.
It seems that Hotz progressed as far as he wishes to go and has released the details of his exploit for all to examine now. He writes: "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."
The documentation included in his .zip package reads as follows:
!!EXPLOIT IS FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES ONLY!!
Usage Instructions:
Compile and run the kernel module.
When the "PRESS THE BUTTON IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS" comes on, pulse the line circled in the picture low for ~40ns.
Try this multiple times, I rigged an FPGA button to send the pulse.
Sometimes it kernel panics, sometimes it lv1 panics, but sometimes you get the exploit!!If the module exits, you are now exploited.
This adds two new HV calls,
u64 lv1_peek(16)(u64 address)
void lv1_poke(20)(u64 address, u64 data)
which allow any access to real memory.The PS3 is hacked, its your job to figure out something useful to do with it.
http://geohotps3.blogspot.com/
~geohot
Of course, this doesn't mean PS3 homebrew or wide open piracy; but it means that George Hotz work opens up many new doors for other PS3 hackers to continue poking through the hardware and software.
It's important to note that the hacking work thus far is meant to work on an original form factor PS3 that's capable of running Linux – so those with the new Slim model are currently excluded from the hacking fun.
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If someone makes a mod for the system where you can play pirated copies of games, but they have to be burned onto bluray discs, I'll laugh. Not sure that's even worth the trouble.
I don't see where it's circled at...
This guy could turn a dildo and a paper clip into a cd player...
Unless you somehow could mount an image stored on the console's hardrive
I don't see where it's circled at...
Congratulations.
anything that has circuits can be hacked.
It's not a total hack sadly. The best possible outcome at the moment
is something that allows more "oomph" on OtherOS. ie, more stuff for linux. (Which sorta locks out slim PS3's) But currently at this stage it doesn't allow anything game related.
It's not a total "hack" , but it is still a step forward.
This guy could turn a dildo and a paper clip into a cd player...
Why reinvent the iPad?
this just in.... he has jailbroken the ipad.
About time......If the PS3 was hackable, it would have been the number one selling console.
"This guy could turn a dildo and a paper clip into a cd player..."
That has got to be the funniest thing I have read in a long time. Thanks for the good laugh HavoCnMe.
hmmmm...so the slim is out of it...
thats y its so much cheaper
this will lead to big things...
Meanwhile at Sony HQ: FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU
This guy is shaping up to be the chuck noris of hacking... soon you'll hear "this just in Hotz has just jailbroke jailbreaking"
this guy is totally putting linux on the ipad and gonna multitask the shit out of it
too much trouble you should just buy the
About time......If the PS3 was hackable, it would have been the number one selling console.
Nope the original xbox was probably the most hackable consoles ever and it didnt't even make half of what the ps2 made. Don't believe me? But the main thing is the games if you dont have good games than theres no point in hacking it. Although you do have a point the ps2 was hella easy to mod. Plus with a fat ps2 you could do anything.
too much trouble you should just buy the Nope the original xbox was probably the most hackable consoles ever and it didnt't even make half of what the ps2 made. Don't believe me? But the main thing is the games if you dont have good games than theres no point in hacking it. Although you do have a point the ps2 was hella easy to mod. Plus with a fat ps2 you could do anything.
wow dude i failed to put the link up there for the dev console from sony it costs around 600 bucks but it plays burned ps3 games. They took it off craigslist.
Man, Can you show me how to hack a womans brain? there are so many crappy aplications they have from factory that i want to deletean 3rd party and applications of my own I want her to run he he!
Kinda amazed the guy above couldn't see the circle. If you open the full photo, it is a very tiny red circle where the wire is going to the board. But what about the other wires.
I thought about the piracy aspect of this system a long time ago. The problems include: large isos, limited hard drive space, and expensive bluray media. I don't think it is going to be a huge threat to sony tbh. Plus the only people who are going to be doing this are people who wouldn't buy the games anyway (not meaning that makes it right, that is just how things are).
I wonder if this is Legal...? If crack games are made using his initial hack method, will that mean he can be implicated?
As for the hack, very smart...
One very interesting aspect of that stuff is that it would allow Linux developers to finally use accelerated video and 3D on that machine, instead of the very limited video they get now, since the thing that prevented writing drivers for it is the inability to probe the hardware directly.
Expect stuff like media center, games (emulators) and such arriving for Linux on PS3.
I wonder if this is Legal...?
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.
Not harmful in and of itself, but just like illegal copying of digital media (movies, music, games, OS's, etc.), it is bound to be abused at Sony and its partners' expense once it's shared with anyone (as it has obviously just been).
If I bought Windows Vista, I didn't also purchase the right to, for example, pirate Windows 7 with it.
Not harmful in and of itself, but just like illegal copying of digital media (movies, music, games, OS's, etc.), it is bound to be abused at Sony and its partners' expense once it's shared with anyone (as it has obviously just been). If I bought Windows Vista, I didn't also purchase the right to, for example, pirate Windows 7 with it.
The question was whether he can be implicated in the creation of "crack games." First off, to my knowledge, I don't believe that console games are cracked -- but rather, the hardware on which they are run is modified to the extent that it can play simple copies of games, not produced on legitimate media. Perhaps I'm wrong about that, but it doesn't really matter, anyway, since the ability to possibly modify a console to the point where it can play cracked games, and actually pirating software are two entirely separate issues.
It would be similar someone who drew up the schematics for a rifle, then gave them to a company for free, which then actually produced the rifle, and then yet another person still acquired that rifle and did harm with it, then holding the original producer of the schematics accountable.
This is irrational beyond all bounds, which is probably why people were pondering it, since the human mind is so dysfunctional and inherently flawed. I certainly am glad I have to post comments such as these to fleetingly preserve my own sanity, as I am interminably mired within the depths of an unthinking, emotionally reactive populace. Please end my life so I don't have to deal with the fallout of your own.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure that when he bought his Playstation 3, he also purchased the right to do whatever the hell he wants with it.
Yes and no, it all depends how its interpreted by the court. Its not illegal to modify your own property but it is illegal to circumvent DRM (in the US). The bottom line comes to whether they (the lawyers) can prove the DRM was circumvented or not (modifying hardware does not necessarily mean you circumvented the part of the hardware intented for DRM).
too much trouble you should just buy the Nope the original xbox was probably the most hackable consoles ever and it didnt't even make half of what the ps2 made. Don't believe me? But the main thing is the games if you dont have good games than theres no point in hacking it. Although you do have a point the ps2 was hella easy to mod. Plus with a fat ps2 you could do anything.
Well, wasn't PS2 also hackable? It levels the field.