PS3 hacker releases exploit online

Give any good geek a gadget to play with and the chances are they’ll try to break it, hack it, modify it, and somehow make it better or more useful or just more interesting. Some of course are more successful at it than others.

Take George Hotz as an example, he was the guy who managed to hack the iPhone and is the only person in the world who has managed to successfully hack the PS3 gaming console and it took him just five weeks to do it.

Now although Hotz claims he doesn’t condone piracy, he has now decided to make his “exploit” in the PlayStation 3 available to the public and has published the information on his website. Why would he do that?

Well simple really, he basically got bored working on it day and night and wants to get back to his regular life and would like the rest of the world to pick up where he left off and figure out what to do with it.

“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” he says on his blog.

“I have a life to get back to and can’t keep working on this all day and night” he adds.

Hotz also asks that if you do have a go, you report what you find to psDevWiki.

“They have been a great resource so far” says Hotz.

“With the power this exploit gives, opens tons of new stuff to document”.

What exactly?

Well Hotz mentions a few things he would like to see.

“Missing HV calls filled in, nice memory maps, the boot chain better documented, and progress on a 3D GPU driver. And of course, the search for a software exploit.”

For real geeks and techies he gives the link for download and says “This is the coveted PS3 exploit, gives full memory space access and therefore ring 0 access from OtherOS. Enjoy your hypervisor dumps. This is known to work with version 2.4.2 only, but I imagine it works on all current versions.”

Then for those who are a little less technically minded, he offers a link to an article on what it’s all about.

I’m just wondering what Sony is going to do about it.

link: http://www.geekwithlaptop.com/ps3-hacker-releases-exploit-online