sony and paying gamer's deserved this:

Monday, 25 January 2010

read this interview:

A US hacker who gained notoriety for unlocking Apple's iPhone as a teenager has told BBC News that he has now hacked Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3).

George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software, took him five weeks.

He said he was still refining the technique but intended to post full details online soon.

The PS3 is the only games console that has not been hacked, despite being on the market for three years.

"It's supposed to be unhackable - but nothing is unhackable," Mr Hotz told BBC News.

"I can now do whatever I want with the system. It's like I've got an awesome new power - I'm just not sure how to wield it."

Sony said it was "investigating the report" and would "clarify the situation" when it had more information.

'Open curiosity'

Mr Hotz said that he had begun the hack last summer when he had spent three weeks analysing the hardware.

After a long break, he spent a further two weeks cracking the console, which he described as a "very secure system".

He said that he was not yet ready to reveal the full details of the hack but said that it was "5% hardware and 95% software"

"You can use hardware to inject an insecurity and then you can build on that," he said.

The hack could allow gamers to play pirated games

He admitted that he had not managed to hack the whole system, including the protected memory, but had worked out ways to trick the console into doing what he wanted.

Mr Hotz said that he was continuing to work on the hack and, once finished, would publish details online in a similar way to his previous iPhone exploits.

In particular, he said, he would publish details of the console's "root key", a master code that once known would make it easier for others to decipher and hack other security features on the console.

He said his motivation was "curiosity" and "opening up the platform".

"To tell you the truth, I've never really played a PS3," he said. "I have one game, but I've never really played it."

Opening the system could allow people to install other operating systems on their console and play homemade games, he said.

In addition, he said, the hack would allow people to play older PS2 games on their consoles.

Recent versions of the PS3 do not have the ability to play PS2 games after Sony controversially removed a piece of hardware.

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.

Gaming firms do not take the issue of game piracy and console modification lightly. Recently, Microsoft disconnected thousands of gamers from its online gaming service Xbox Live for modifying their consoles to play pirated games.

Mr Hotz said that the nature of his PS3 hack means that Sony may have difficulty patching the exploit.

"We are investigating the report and will clarify the situation once we have more information," said a Sony spokesman.

Mr Hotz rose to fame in 2007 at the age of 17 when he unlocked the iPhone, which could only be used on the AT&T network in the US at launch.

The hack allowed the popular handset to be used on any network.

He has since released various other hacks, allowing people to unlock later versions of the popular handset.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8478764.stm

that's exactly why sony took the step's they did!

by george's own admission he said it could, he hacked another big corperation's device I think you heard about it:

the Iphone!

yea Sony and paying gamer's deserved this alright.

by all mean's everyone please put a PUP file back in...

Question:
What is a PUP file?

Answer:
PUP stands for "Potentially Unwanted Program." It is an acronym used by some antivirus programs that defines unknown executable programs. A PUP may be a virus or other type of malware, such as a spyware or adware program. They are most commonly found on Windows computers, but can appear on Macintosh systems as well.

If your antivirus software finds a PUP, it may provide a brief description of the file, which will help you determine whether you should delete it or not. If the file is an unknown program, you might want to search the Web for the filename to see what information is available about the file. If you don't know what a program is or where it came from, you should not open it since it may contain malicious code.

Category: Software

OMFG...my head is going to explode. Out of all seriousness, this guy needs to fall off a cliff or something.

Any grown up with the logic or IQ to shit in a toilet should understand that this shit hurts more than Sony. Its hurts small developers, big developers, retail employees.

OOOOO its so cool to hate the corperations, yeah GeoHotz like fucking Robin Hood....my ass, the reality is all the big wigs will keep getting their 6 or 7 figures and some innocent factory worker, or developer, or secretary living paycheck to paycheck will get canned because of this shit.

Anyone defending this douche or this premise or trashing Sony for this needs to grow up or be kicked square between the eyes and shipped off into the ocean on a raft alone.

Ok I just have to ask this question. Do the majority of you live under rocks or are you just not too informed about how technology works? Does no one know that the more a company touts its security features, the more it eggs on crackers to crack their software. Do people here also not realize that people will always want to crack into a system? They don't do it for monetary gain, they do it for the status and to jsut say they were the ones to crack a certain system. I mean seriously, these people have been around since the '80s, I can't believe there are people still somehow surprised enough to blame this one guy right now. Where have you all been for the past 30 years?

I think this say's it all

Geohot-

The hack could allow gamers to play pirated games

yea this is going to be sad when people star getting their system's banned!

Geohot-

all it need was a pup file put back in!

Question:
What is a PUP file?

Answer:
PUP stands for "Potentially Unwanted Program." It is an acronym used by some antivirus programs that defines unknown executable programs. A PUP may be a virus or other type of malware, such as a spyware or adware program. They are most commonly found on Windows computers, but can appear on Macintosh systems as well.

If your antivirus software finds a PUP, it may provide a brief description of the file, which will help you determine whether you should delete it or not. If the file is an unknown program, you might want to search the Web for the filename to see what information is available about the file. If you don't know what a program is or where it came from, you should not open it since it may contain malicious code.

Category: Software

yea only free $60.00 game's right?

did you ask for this?

The hack could allow gamers to play pirated games

So why did Geohot release it to everyone, if he was just doing it for Fun!

for pete's sake he admitted this in jan

George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software

Right, i mean why blame the person responsible for something now when people have done similar things in different decades. You, my friend, are unparralleled in you logic.

Ya, know i always find it funny. I wonder how people would feel if someone who makes less money than them came to their home and stole their shit and just said "hey, youre better off than me, dont get mad"

People are detached from reality with this company image thing, the bad guys making all the money wont siffer from anything....console sales, software sales, piracy or anything, dont you people realize that after this economic meltdown. The people we love to hate keep getting their paychecks, its our neighbors and peers that suffer.

Yet all of these self righteous kids/adults whatever, come here argueing the legitmacy of defending this stuff.

Well I gotta say that was fast. My only thing I can't stand about the whole thing is both parties are to blame for the coming piracy. It will be a sad day, when games are going to die out due to mass piracy. It's what's killing the music industry.

I have to admit, I love watching fights between hackers and companies.

I don't take sides - I admit that some hackers want to bring in cool new features that don't harm Sony, and that some want to pirate games - I'll defend the first whilst simultaneously defending Sony's right to stop the later.

I think I like it cos it's either a david and goliath story, as in this case where the few take on the many (and usually win) or if enough people get behind it, it's an allegory for socialist revolution - power to the people and the means of production being transfered from the bourgeoisie to the proletariat.

Ubisoft's removal of DRM just recently in some games is equivalent to the Czar's elimination of serfdom. The new DRM they then introduced is analogous to the Czar's fatal decision to take back those newly granted rights. Ubisoft shall certainly be first against the wall.

joeorc said: mirgro said: Ok I just have to ask this question. Do the majority of you live under rocks or are you just not too informed about how technology works? Does no one know that the more a company touts its security features, the more it eggs on crackers to crack their software. Do people here also not realize that people will always want to crack into a system? They don't do it for monetary gain, they do it for the status and to jsut say they were the ones to crack a certain system. I mean seriously, these people have been around since the '80s, I can't believe there are people still somehow surprised enough to blame this one guy right now. Where have you all been for the past 30 years?   did you ask for this? The hack could allow gamers to play pirated games So why did Geohot release it to everyone, if he was just doing it for Fun! for pete's sake he admitted this in jan George Hotz said the hack, which could allow people to run pirated games or homemade software

If I asked for a dumb parrot, I'll make sure to come to you next time, thanks for your business card.