Apparently so. A guy by the name of George Hotz (Geohot), who is also known for the famous iPhone Jailbreak hack, has now moved onto bigger and better things. The Playstation 3. The PS3 has been around now roughly 3 years, without any true exploits. Now that is all about to change.
Quoted from GeoHotPS3
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.
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…follow @geohot on twitter
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Phew. I’m glad you were able to cover this topic after all. Time to get back and do some more research.
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