For anyone who douted that Geohot's hack was real:
GeoHot PS3 Custom Themes Hack Demonstration Arrives
Today GeoHot has posted a few pictures (below) with the title "Custom Themes?" on the latest PlayStation 3 blog entry, however, no other useful details are available of the PS3 hack demonstration.
To speculate, it appears to illustrate modifying the PS3 GameOS XMB memory areas, but this was already known over a month ago when word first spread of the PS3 Hypervisor lv2 being dumped and reversed.
Nevertheless, it looks like progress is indeed being made, although it would be nice if the information was made public so that other PS3 Devs in the scene could join in the fun.
From NDT: Le foto sono vere al 100% Ha modificato gli RCO dal dump della ram ma dato che non sono signed questo significa proprio poco. Si vede che stava cercando anche lui qualcosa da postare.
Rough translation: The photos are real 100% Changed the RCO by dump ram but since they have not signed this means just a little. One can see that he was looking for something to post.
Mathieulh: It's real, it has nothing to do with custom backgrounds, what he did was replace a rco file in dev_flash with one he edited (with a custom text in it).
To do that he had to mount dev_flash as rw because it is normally read only. You can do that if you know how to using his exploit under otheros.
As always, more details to come as they are available!
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Read more: http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Hacks/geohot-ps3-custom-themes-hack-demonstration-arrives/#ixzz0iZXPneWF
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