Hacker Geohot (George Hotz) known from the iphone scene has managed to hack the ps3 and gain full access to ps3's hardware. This could lead to homebrew, limitless linux and playing backups. I can't wait to install XBMC (Xbox Media Center) on it. THIS MEANS mkv support in XMB!!. Hell yeah.
But on the other hand..
Is this this gonna kill the software sales?? I hope not..
Source: geohotps3.blogspot.com
Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot
I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1. I've also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip.
3 years, 2 months, 11 days...thats a pretty secure system
Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.
Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long :)
As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG.
A lot more to come...follow @geohot on twitter
