An individual is claiming to have finally cracked the PS3’s formerly invincible copy protection system.
Although he claims to have cracked the hardware, he admits not yet having cracked the software, so a usable application is presumably some way off, if possible at all.
The cracker in question, identified as “geohot” (or George Hotz) and already well known for his previous exploits, explains:
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.
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.
The cracker was previously involved in “unlocking” the iPhone’s protection in 2007, so although any actual proof of his accomplishment is entirely lacking, he is at least relatively credible by way of former deeds.
Hopeful pirates (or “backup and homebrew enthusiasts” as the facile euphemism has it) have wasted no time in celebrating the possibility of finally getting free games on the PS3, though whether a usable modchip emerges from the hack remains to be seen, as does Sony’s response.
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I hope this hack will permit to launch non signed code for homebrew and emulation.
And if it will bring back Linux support, it would be perfect.
You guys are fuciking retard or plain stupid.Do u think sony wont put out a patch and fk counter this when it happened? you guys are fucking dead brain.And FFXIII haters? fuk u all.Play the game urself be4 making some shit judgement because some amateur 2ch rate the game.You guys fail.Go and watch some girl in bynnu costume get fuk asshole.RETARD people jeezzz...
I suggest to look at your grammar before insulting anybody.
Meh, i rather have the games can be installed to HDD just like X360 and played without disc
Hm. So, the ultra-amazing, super-impenetrable, hyper-invincible PS3 has finally been cracked? Nothing stops hackers. What do you have to say about that, Voice?
Mysterious Voice: "It's still better than the Xbox."
Elaborate.
Mysterious Voice: "For one, Micro$oft will actively stop hackers. Sony hasn't. And I don't think we need to go over the RROD."
First of all, that's an old argument. Secondly, that thing's blown widely out of porpor-
*gun fires*
And this Hack lasted only a week, nothing more.
uh? voice?
Pirated Vocie : "Yeeeees and the 360 was pirated the same day in launched and its still prated since and will always beign pirateeeed, the Powerful Ps3 was pirated once, for a week, thats it"
lulz
i just hope it wouldt be like psp with constant firmware update to stop pirating. i will run out ro buya ps3 if it is cracked.
her it cost £49.99 for a new game, thats $79. and minum wage is £5 i think. so for 1 game you need to work 10 hour!!!! thats not entertainment!
You seriously need to stop whining.
Around where I live, it takes 1/3 of your monthly earning to buy one of those games.
All the cheapos like you make those of us who really don't have an alternative look bad.
Ok, NOW is the right time to purchase a PS3.
There is no point in pirating PS3.It's been 3 years and there's about 10 good games for it. I have a PS3 and I have 7 games. I have a 360 and I have 58 games for it! I'm neutral in this console war, but this is how I stand.
That's not an objective statement unless those 58 games are all X-Box exclusives.
Besides that, people may have different tastes than yours. Who are you to assume that the rest of the world won't enjoy the PS3 exclusives more than the X-Box ones?
Neutral, eh? Damn fanboy hypocrite:P
Looks like i picked a good time to get a PS3.
REJOICE
now i can buy PS3 games with a cheap price
i'm just waiting for a codebreaker or something so i can cheat on the couple games i'm stuck on..
its still a luxury either way. blurays are fucking expensive. drives included.
i'm fairly sure tho that its not $60 here. its something around $80 i think. sucks but still cheaper. seeing as the only game i'd be playing is srwps3, i'd just import and play.
i wanna see it hacked tho, i need my codebreaker fix for lulz
The only reason I'll ever buy a PS3 is for new good .hack games.
As far as I see it, it still isn't fully cracked, as he has still not figured out the security system, he just partly bypassed it through some hardware extensions.
As far as I remember Sony already stated in the past that the security is a software hardware combination on all levels.
He bypassed the hardware, so now he has to get his hands on the software, problem Sony will be fast in closing these holes, after all they even anounced a reward for the person able to hack the ps3.
A problem would be that new games will always need the newest firmware and have it on the disk and force you to update your system.
Sony will not be closing anything unless they mass-replace the current gen PS3 consoles, which is more expensive than leaving piracy alone.
And as for software restrictions... well we've all seen how good they work when you have complete access to the hardware. Most software copyright protections take about 1-2 days to crack. The tougher ones can take up to a month.
When you have complete access to the CPUs, the rest is trivial for a person who is comfortable with assembly languages.
But I'm sure you know much more about the PS3 than the person who spent 5 weeks hacking it.
Probably not, but he himself stated that he still hasn't figured anything out, but for you to feel comfartable I can tell you something that this person doesn't seems to know, the CellBE in each PS3 is marked with a certain number if this number is changed or anything happens to it you will never again be able to connect to PSN.
Assuming that this hardware hack modifies the identifier, and assuming the original it cannot be recovered and spoofed.
First Say hi to my packet sniffer.
With r/w access to the CPU, it's pretty easy to make it do pretty much anything we want, such as emulate the software to respond with the original identifier.
And even if it cannot, pirates are getting the product they paid for, so it's really rather natural to deny them online play. This has been the case with PC gaming for a long time now. Is this a nail in the coffin for piracy? It sure wasn't for the X-Box.
It is only a matter of time.
way to go geohot!
keep those keys coming ;)
Why buy the games? Just get a gamefly account and.. order, copy, send back, etc.
When i looked at the picture , it was the first time i was arsed enough to compare Xbox and PS3.
The PS3 is not cracked yet. With this hack they can pass the hypervisor and have direct access to memory.
Which is encrypted by the way.
The encryption keys still remain safe within the hardware and there is no easy way to access them. It's all part of the security scheme of the Cell processor.
Geohot got pretty ahead of himself and claimed to have hacked the PS3 when all he did was having a little fun programming on OtherOS.
Don't expect for modchips or playable pirated games anytime soon.
As for homebrew, there's actually a decent amount of it, including mame compilations.
It likely was Sony's dropping linux support that got geohot to decide to exploit the PS3.
Good news the PS3 slim is now actually worth something to me.
Well, people had arrived before where he is now, there is where the problem begins - then before the problems with ripping and burning BDs that could be read by the PS3 - he must write software to skip the checking procedures of the firmware withouth briking it and risk to have his work trashed by a firmware upgrade (that Sony could just force people to do making it a requeriment to play new games, and make them weekly).
I have my doubts that Sony will let this last after the PSP fiasco, and wont be surprised if he receives a letter/visit from their lawyers in the next weeks.
Even if he makes a ps3 emulator, most people won't even have the computer specs to run it let alone play a game -_-
Sony will blackmail him into murdering a school full of elementary schoolers. He'll be given the death penalty. His life is over.
great. now the numbers of Playstation 3 sold in Indonesia & Philliphine are going skyrocket.
GO PIRATES!
Why don't they just put a defense mechanism (where any system part that gets hacked 3 times will destroy the PS3 and self-destruct it).
i see an explosive rise in ps3 hardware sells if this gets usable for public.
but well, id still buy the games i would buy without the hacks..
Wake me up when a burn is a 5 minute burn on a 20 cent disc, otherwise who cares.
some web shops sold older games very cheap no need t play copies on a PS3. if its really to expensive go buy a good game pc and play there your crappy copie games !!!
itd be nice to see a HDloader for ps3 sheeeit
Wow 20 years after the retardbox got hacked
Sony good job - Probably another year or 2 till normal people can do it on their own and use it for new games.
Won't make any difference if you can eventually play burnt copies,
blank BR discs are expensive + 50gig torrents
may as well just buy the game,
only 20% of PS3 games are above 20gigs and blank br's arn't that expensive
I'm surprised no one said something about pressing the square and circle button on that girl in the picture. Or that iPhone thing in the background.
I lol'd.
...wait.
Why is Xbox all tiny and PS3 so buxom? I'm a PS3 man myself but still...wut?
Because lolis are hotter.
Kuudere loli > middle aged gravity defying tsundere.
It's probably a reference to the respective designs of the consoles. The original PS3 was large and bulged at the middle. The Xbox 360 is smaller and tapers at the middle. Bakunyuu versus pettanko seems to work fine here.
Also, Red Eyes of Death.
Never really cared about hacks or cracks to be honest.
Never really cared about paying for stuff, cause I'm a super rich fag, to be honest.
lols
クソニー
Xbot troll fag spotted.
maybe when he hack the ps3 and the pirated bluray disc is now available, the ps3 is obsolete and the competitor have a new console
Aww, man, you used Mike Inel's work.
I wish blogs would use my art. :P
Oh, Mikeinel's image! O:
Doods, if we could get .mkv (along with h.264) support, along with better PS2 emulation stuffs... that would win. I'm tired of sony screwing that up.
as for pirated games... well, it being blu-ray is still some time off, although by the end of the console's life it'll be a possibility. Now -PS2- piracy ON the PS3... that's exciting.
Couple things that I would like to see for PS3 homebrew:
1. PS2 backward compatibility
2. Third-party OS install
3. Cross chat on PSN
4. Support codec install
5. WORKING(non half-ass) dts codec
6. A2DP for bluetooth stereo headset(or a better bluetooth stack)
Just emulate PS2 on your PC... much less trouble.
Indeed this anon speaks the words of my heart. PS3 emulation/ piracy seems like it'd be expensive (to either hd space or my wallet), I'd much rather some good ol PS2 emulation/piracy.
Hey, that's Mikeinel's work |D
I lurve seeing mike's stuff all over the interwebz.
I wouldn't be surprised if he read these comments himself, since I happen to know that he frequents sankaku. =D
I knew I saw that gaming chicks before ...
The sperm has finally reached the egg.
Brilliant. Now I might have an excuse to buy one.
Since "Final Travesty 13" is turning into a joke.
At least this will give me something to look forward to.
Who knows when a working app / crack will be made.
But it's always better when consumers have the power to control their own media.
Turning into a joke just because it's linear? Have you actually played it to determine whether or not it's actually fun or are you going to curl up into a ball and cry just because 2ch didn't like it?
Sheep.
2ch and many others. And are you not just as much of a sheep, taking that stance?
is this really a good thing revealing before it was actually done?
he really didn't give them anything to work against so really no harm done
Wow, nigh impregnable for 3 years. That must have felt like quite a triumph for him.
actually the crackers just started cracking the PS3 since it's dropped it's open platform approach with the slim...
rather for sony
If he gets free games, we'll all get free games! It'll be anarchy!!! PS3 will go down the drain!!
REJOICE! its now time to buy a PS3!!!
You people just don't get it, your digging yourselves a deeper physical media grave when you do this shit. Soon every damn gaming system will follow in the iPhone/Touch, PSPgo's footsteps. People managed to build up a big anti Go movement with all the anti Go spam across the internet, but what are you going to do when every system follows the same format? What are only a few thousand people going to have game systems?
twice the cost of a PS3, 1 Dual Layer Blu-Ray writable disk around $20-30 lolwut
I don't know what backwater you live in (oh, right - AMERIKKKA) but around HERE, a USB or SATA Blu-Ray burner is $250 at most, and dual-layer blanks are $5.
Oh wait, I live in Japan. ha ha!
Especially the multiplatform games, which are usually developed in the 360 first, then ported. There could be a large quantity of games that don't go beyond the 10GB.
I'd like to know how accessible the 1TB HDDs are.
Exactly.
Not to mention they'll probably find out how to strip stuff out of the games to slim them down - things like extra languages and the like. I doubt many games are anywhere near 25gb let alone the full 50gb.
twice the price? newegg has a 1TB drive for $90. Does the ps3 not support normal hard drives?
this brings up an interesting point.
Do you think the multiple install bullshit Kojima pulled may have been a troll's concept of copy protection?
Why would you need to burn a game when you can fit a 1TB HDD to the PS3?
@anon 11:15 - Not that I advocate piracy, but that's why they said about the DVD. Prices of burners and blank Blurays will drop, whether sooner or later. There's enough people out there that would then use this to start selling pirated copies at markets and such.
So yes, a cracked PS3 means pirated PS3 games, but as the topic goes, it's only the hardware for now...
Dont know about you guys, but when i rent a game and I really liked it, I buy it....
Same for downloading a copy to try it out, if I really liked it, I buy it.
Just because the PS3 was cracked doesn't mean software will be pirated.
1.) You need a Blu-Ray burner. Nearly twice the cost of a PS3.
2.) 20-50Gig file downloads.
3.) 1 (one) Dual Layer Blu-Ray writable disk will cost you around $20-30, retail.
With all the fees and hassle, you might as well buy the actual games. The only way you're going to recoup your losses is if you burn every $60 new release for the PS3 over the next 2 years and if you're gonna dop that much cash on videogames, you probably don't need to pirate them in the first place.
It has no game just for trolls! For actual ps3 users, there are quite a bunch of nice games to play v.v
Kudos to this guy.
What? I thought PS3 has nogames?
Software is the next hurdle he says. But the biggest one is still BD. If Sony is not going to put empty disc on the consumer market, they are still a step ahead.
lol
lived in a cave, up to now?
You sir, are retarded.
there are 10 packs of 25 GB Blu-ray disks for sale on the internet for around $25.
there are blu-ray burners for as cheap as $150
if you have a uber internet, you can download a 50gb file in 12 hours. (with a 1-2 MBps sustained speed)
Bluray burners are available since a while.
200-300$ for the burner and BD-R are a few bucks a piece.
Doublelayer discs are expensive as hell.
Haha, If your prices are hell, i wonder what ours are... ; In Australia RRP of a new PS3 title is 110AUD. (up to 120AUD on some titles)
1 U.S. dollar = 1.1090163 Australian dollars
So it would only cost me approx. 66.6AUD for a game over there as it would cost you approx. 99.2USD here.
what? they sell Batman Arkham Asylum in here for just 123 dollars. Wasn't that game last year? Left 4 Dead 1, GOTY Edition, 78 USD, wasn't that like really late last year?
I live in Mexico, nobody loves us, boo hoo
Stop sending your garbage to the rest of us and maybe we will.
You need to learn to cull them, like Russia and Germany do. >:|
No, paying 60 USD for a new PS3 is expensive as hell, that's why I just rent games now.
Err, what?
BD writers and blank BD media have been available since the introduction of blu-ray, in 25G and 50G sizes, and even both in rewritable flavor. Blank disks have even become quite affordable.
BD is one of the smallest issues there.
Even if you crack the console, you still have to buy empty blue-ray discs and blue-ray writer, which is another expense, and a large one compare to previous pirate.
Unless of course they figure a way to access the games on HDD.
You dumb girl
But BD is still useful for other things ... like full seasons of 1080p anime :D
Figuring out how to get isos running is also a possibility since there are already games (PSN and such) that run without needing discs (granted, PS3 disc game isos are generally a lot bigger in size). If they can figure out how to crack authentication, they can figure out how to run isos
50gb really is nothing, I download at least around 10-15 on a normal day, and that's just anime and some on the side software.
having to wait a few days or even a week isn't a big deal - once the system and software are cracked, it'll be easy coasting from there on
OMFG
50GB isn't too much. I would manage to download it in a few days or maybe a week (if there are enough seeders), it's not like this is going to take a month or more.
My internet connection is 4096kbps down 768kbps up.
@anon 23:45 Is that kilobytes or kilobits?
In case of kilobytes, that still makes downloading ~50GB very downloadable, I got the abovementioned touhou lossless torrent in a few weeks at roughly ~200KB/s.
If it's kilobits... ouch. Still doable, but it'll take a few weeks each. >:
fcuk it. you gays can say that coz you have such a connection.
i got like 100kbps down and 13kbps up. sux to be an internet user in my oh-so-much-developing-country.
Who the hell is going to download a 50GB game? That'll take freakin years unless you get like a billion people seedinng night and day lol. Electricity through the roof.