174w ago - The PS3 is hacked, at least according to
George Hotz on his latest blog entry (linked above)!!!
This news comes just under a month after he
resumed PlayStation 3 hacking!
To quote: "Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot
I have full 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.
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..."
hope to find something usefull here .. hello 
From what i did understand here this hack is going to be possible only under otheros method i mean in Linux but i'm wondering too how did the guys here come up with that his hack is only going to work on fat systems? did he say it latterly you need the otheros for my exploit, and if he succeed to decrypt those encrypted keys in the isolated SPE doesnt that mean the ps3 system is hacked too since they use the same security system.
anyway after all this i would only say even goehot needed sony's help imagine the ps3 fat didn't have the otheros option in the first place then the hack thing is going to be even harder (sorry for my bad english though).
SPE's aren't "deactivated", they're just stopped, i.e. idle. PS3 Linux isn't using them out of the box. It doesn't mean you can't. YDL comes with an SPE-gcc compiler and you can compile and execute code on the SPEs. You can even get IBM's XLC for PPE and SPE along with threading and matrix math libraries for free from IBM's website.
@archie4oz Spot on about the SPEs
And actually, the RSX being restricted is just theory as far as I know. OtherOS under the hypervisor may have the access required to write a 3D driver, just no one wrote one.
Details of the exploit are still private, hence why I'm hoping to get keys to give people something to reverse and document.
If it does get hacked, I hope there's someway of running the whole of the 360 firmware so I can laugh at XBox 360 users even more. A similar method to Apples Bootcamp but for PS3 should be possible, right?
According to BBC it needs 5% hardware modding, modchips? And in the pictures it shows various components connected to the motherboard that are not in the PS3, yeh I know they're not PS3 componenets as I opened mine up when it got the YLOD.