PlayStation 3 hackers: Your emails. Sony disables PlayStation feature. Nintendo game copiers 'illegal'. Hardware hackers claim PS3 crack. PS3 'hacked' by iPhone cracker. Teenage hacker unlocks the iPhone.
Microsoft disconnects Xbox gamers. Hackers target Xbox Live players. Chaos Communication Congress. Sony declined to comment on the hack. Mr Hotz's original hack is widely believed to have led to Sony disabling features on the console. Legal worry. Sony takes a dim view of people hacking its system.
Published 20 August Published 30 March Published 28 July Published 25 January They are physical devices that are soldered to the PS3. Neither of these two methods will be covered by this guide. Otherwise, your PS3 may download and install a new firmware update. If this happens on CFW, you would need to wait for a new CFW to be released and for the online jailbreaking tool to be updated also.
Download any digital purchases you may want to use before learning to use PSN safely. Also, sync your trophies and saves if you want. You don't have to update your games right now because you do not need to log-in to do that. Lots of reasons. For one, you may decide to get a second PS3 later to keep original and play online. If you already have an account on your hacked PS3, you can buy a game on the unhacked PS3 and move it over to the hacked one without having to log-on with the hacked PS3.
If your main account gets banned, you can no longer download the games and other content that you purchased. Also, games from other systems like PS4 or Vita will become unavailable to you if your account had purchases from those systems on it.
Turn off automatic log-in and do not let it remember your password. Another good way to avoid signing-in is to use a second user profile without a PSN account for games that you never want to play online. Of course, you have to use a user profile with a PSN account when you do want to play online.
Last edited by a moderator: May 22, Frank-PS3 , Coro , tthousand and 14 others like this. After installing rebug to my ps Will i just insert a burned disc and play or i will do anything else? Paulkuria , Oct 24, CFW likes this. Yugonibblit likes this. I just thought of it. I think it's called swap magic.
DeViL , Oct 24, But still disc copies will play still? But I have blank screen after boot. I know the only way I can restore it is with good back up and if I solder up e3 linker can anyone help me. Last year, Microsoft took the extra step of banning gamers from Xbox Live if they were found to be running pirated or back-up copies of games on their systems.
That may be a possibility for Sony, but updating the firmware is no longer an option: the PS3 hack affects the core of the whole encryption system; the only way to close the door is to launch new hardware with an entirely fresh security setup.
Was this hack always an inevitability? Perhaps not. Fail0verflow claims it only started to work on the PS3 system when Sony made the decision to disable the machine's Other OS functionality.
This feature allowed owners to install their own Linux OS onto the console, giving them the ability to create and run their own applications, and to load apps developed by other users. It was an interesting invitation to the programming community, harking back to the launch of the Net Yaroze , a special programmable version of the original PlayStation console, which was widely used by home coders and by universities setting up games develoment courses at the time.
However, at the end of , George Hotz announced via his blog that he was attempting to hack the PS3. His way in was through Other OS. The PS3's security "Hypervisor" allowed homemade Linux to run, but in a supervised mode with no access to lower level system functionality. Geohot bypassed the hypervisor, and published elements of the exploit online leaving the rest of the work to other hackers. Sony's response was to issue Firmware update v3.
The move was a red rag to the homebrew community. But did Sony really have much of a choice? When Other OS was effectively removed, Patrick Seybold, SCEA's director of communications and social media stated in a blog post that "disabling the Other OS feature will help ensure that PS3 owners will continue to have access to the broad range of gaming and entertainment content from SCE and its content partners on a more secure system".
And that's the heart of it — the manufacturer's "entertainment partners" rely on the company to ensure their products aren't vulnerable to piracy. As Gamesindustry. The hackers who follow in Fail0verflow's footsteps and create custom firmware to run pirated games, emulators and so on will be targeting Sony's hardware, but it's third-party publishers and developers who have the most right to be outraged. The license fee they pay to Sony for every piece of software they sell is, in many respects, a fee for security — the price of selling software on a platform where piracy is difficult or damn-near impossible.
Now that has been taken away from them, with the PS3 looking set to become the easiest platform to pirate software for — easier even than the Wii, DS or PSP, all notorious piracy targets but all of which require some degree of technical knowledge to get pirated software working.
In other words, Sony owes it to the games publishers and movie studios who create products for its machine to maintain a safe, secure platform. As soon as Geohot revealed that exploits were possible via OtherOS, the whole concept was compromised.
Sony has already seen game publishers evacuating the PSP platform, it may have felt that there was little choice here. In the future, is there a way that hobbyist coders could be appeased by console manufacturers? Generally, it's the anti-piracy programmers who have the ability to create hacks and exploits of closed systems — the producers of "jailbreak" cartridges and pirated warez tend to come along afterwards, taking advantage of coders who maintain, perhaps rather idealistically, that they're just interested in the hardware as a development platform.
With this in mind, Space Rogue of the Hacker News Network reckons it's time for console producers to stop viewing homebrew coders as the enemy. Take a look at the Linksys WRT series of routers.
0コメント