PS3 Hacker Claims He's Jailbroken 3.60 Firmware 176
Wesociety writes "Not one week ago Sony released a new PlayStation 3 firmware update which implemented cloud-saving for its PlayStation Plus subscribers and featured some understandably secretive behind-the-scenes security features meant to prevent future hacking. Today, a hacker is purporting that he broke firmware 3.60 and posted a video to prove it."
Re:They're watching you (Score:2, Informative)
* Netflix
* Multiplayer gaming
Re:This is why we can't have nice things! (Score:4, Informative)
It's a war of attrition now, one that Sony started by taking away the OtherOS option for no real reason. Then the really smart people that wanted to hack the console for fun or use it for Linux work or clusters or whatever fixed that issue, and then all the script-kiddie hangers-on took it and ran with it after it was broken. If Sony hadn't fired the first shot, they wouldn't have these issues.
I don't feel sorry for Sony one bit. They made their bed, and they can lie in it.
Re:This is why we can't have nice things! (Score:5, Informative)
Re:This is why we can't have nice things! (Score:5, Informative)
The Slim never featured linux to begin with. They cut out the hardware to enable dual booting the way it had been done in other models to save costs.
Except there was never any hardware required specifically to do that. Geohot got OtherOS working on the slim, thus proving that there was no technical limitation to running it there.
Re:Is DRM conceptually useless? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Unbreakable? (Score:5, Informative)
I haven't "hacked" my console...
All i have done is fixed it..
When i bought it, it was sold to me on the basis that i can play games on it *and* run linux. I don't play a lot of games (i have 5 for it) but i did want to play gran turismo 5, despite that game saying it's for "ps3", by default i can't play it on the ps3 without sacrificing the ability to run linux...
It doesn't state anywhere on the box that i would have to sacrifice one of the functions i bought the ps3 for in order to continue using another...
I don't play games online with it, but if i wanted to that would be even more ridiculous...
So in the end i have to install a hacked firmware so that i can continue using linux on the ps3 and still play legitimately purchased newer games...
I am probably going to sell my legitimately purchased copy of GT5 and continue playing a pirate copy out of principle - and pirate any future games i want to play, sony don't deserve any more of my money if this is how they treat paying customers.