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PS3 got hacked

One of the best man on earth, surprised everyone with his exploit which can hack the Play Station 3. That man is GeoHot, the famouse guy who have hacked all iphone firmwares so far, and the author of blackra1n jailbrake and unlock.

On January 26, he published on his bog, that he achived to disable one of the most powerfull any hacking system so far, Hypervisor. the PS3 allows users to run ordinary Linux if they wish, but it still runs under management by the hypervisor. The hypervisor does not allow the Linux kernel to access various devices, such as the GPU. If a way was found to compromise the hypervisor, direct access to the hardware is possible, and other less privileged code could be monitored and controlled by the attacker.

Hacking the hypervisor is not the only step required to run pirated games. Each game has an encryption key stored in an area of the disc called ROM Mark. The drive firmware reads this key and supplies it to the hypervisor to use to decrypt the game during loading. The hypervisor would need to be subverted to reveal this key for each game.

“Basically, I used hardware to open a small hole and then used software to make the hole the size of the system to get full read/write access,” Hotz told The Register. “Right now, although the system is broken, I have great power. I can make the system do whatever I want.”

This is a great news, and even that i dont own a PS3, now im thinking about buying one. I cant aford buying those expensive games, but its just a matter of time when we all will have the chance to run and play pirated games on the Play Station 3. For sure we can all download very soon software which will do the needed modification on the PS3 firmware. We’re looking forward for that, and it will be a honor to notify our visitors about this.