We have been reporting for the last few days about the PSJailbreak.com backup manager v1.1 and today it has been released. While what the complete changes of what the new version brings is unknown, we do know the following: (more…)

We have been hearing about it for the last several weeks that PSJailbreak will release an update to their backup manager v1.0 and update it to v1.1. They have updated their site with following information:

We will be releasing our new and improved Backup Manager v1.1 on the 20th of October. As well, we would like to announce that our updates for newer firmwares will be delayed a few days, but it will be released before the end of the month. We sincerely apologize for this minor delay and appreciate your patience.
Thank you.

Will shall see tomorrow, it will be interesting to see what new updates it brings (besides from what the scene already offers).

As rumours come, this one is pretty extreme, it appears, according to Dukio.com that someone has leaked the keys for the PS3 Firmware and given them to the PS Jailbreak team, here is what the Dukio says:

Apparently, someone who had access to the certain keys for the PS3 firmware is in contact with PS Jailbreak team. When i meant someone, it has the possibilities of someone who have worked for Sony or had left the company for several obvious reasons. Well, if that someone has an access to the master key, then the PS Jailbreak team is really going to owned Sony this time. In fact, the Japanese corporation almost have no chance to fight back the PS3 Jailbreak scene. If you want to read more, here is my source which has been posted by Falcon80:

The reason i believe the update is real is because of what has been told to me.
No one knows who they are. If they had no more tricks up their sleeve why would they even bother hanging around?

The rumors are that they do get someone either from Sony or that had left Sony that possibly had access to certain keys. If its the master key then Sony are f**ked. Thats probably why they are saying “firmwares” becuase the update will probably work on future firmware version past 3.5……fingers crossed yall!

Source
Thanks to fullmetal172 for the tip.

REMEMBER THIS IS A RUMOUR

Expected? Maybe, it seems that the court case that was supposed to happen ended up going in Sony’s favor, simply because the “PSJailbreakers” including PS3KEY, PS3BREAK, PSJAILBREAK did not show up to court.

The following preliminary injunction was granted:

On October 5, 2010, the court granted a temporary restraining order against defendants and ordered them to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue and why the court should not issue an order of impoundment pursuant to 17 USC §1203(b)(2). Doc #33.

The court held a hearing on the order to show cause on October 12, 2010, and no defendant appeared.

For the reasons explained below, plaintiff Sony Computer Entertainment America’s (“SCEA”) motion for a preliminary injunction and order of impoundment is GRANTED. SCEA and defendants Tom Nooker, Bin Le Zhong, Alex Esquivel and Fai King Fong entered into stipulated preliminary injunctions. Doc ##38, 42, 45, 47. SCEA has not moved for injunctive relief against defendants Vlad Gazoune and HuanRan Lee. The defendants bound by the this preliminary injunction are: Thahn Nguyen, individually and doing business as USATechCity, Ltd (“USATechCity”) and Arthur Bates II, individually and doing business as PSP Pit Stop (“PSP Pit Stop”).

Having considered all the papers and arguments, the court finds that SCEA has established that it is likely to succeed on the merits of its claims for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and federal trademark law and that it will suffer irreparable harm unless defendants’ violations are enjoined. The court additionally finds that the balance of equity and interests of justice support granting such relief. Furthermore, defendants failed to appear or otherwise show cause why a preliminary injunction and order of impoundment should not issue.

Accordingly, the court orders as follows:

1. Defendants and their officers, employees, attorneys and representatives, and all other persons or entities in privity or acting in concert or participation with defendants, are enjoined from selling, offering for sale, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, distributing or otherwise trafficking in circumvention devices, including but not limited to any or all of the PS3 Jailbreak devices, any copies or versions of backup manager or any other hardware or software that bypasses technological copyright protection measures in SCEA’s PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system;

2. Defendants shall preserve all communications, including email communications, and other documents relating to their purchase, sale, receipt or distribution of circumvention devices, including but not limited to the PS3 Jailbreak devices, the backup manager or any other hardware or software that bypasses technological copyright protection measures in SCEA’s PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and defendants shall not delete, remove, transfer or in any way dispose of such communications and documents;

3. Pursuant to 17 USC § 1203(b)(2), all circumvention devices in defendants’ possession, custody or control are ordered impounded, including any or all of the PS3 Jailbreak devices, any copies or versions of backup manager or any other hardware or software which bypasses technological copyright protection measures in SCEA’s PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system. Defendants shall immediately deliver the devices to SCEA’s attorneys at Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP, Two Embarcadero Center, Eighth Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111 Attn: Timothy R Kahn, Esq;

4. The $5000 security posted to secure the temporary restraining order, Doc #36, shall suffice as security for this preliminary injunction;

5. Plaintiff shall serve defendants, defendants’ resident agents or counsel with a copy of this order;

6. This order shall remain in effect until further order of the court.

[VIA PSX-Scene]

It would seem that with all the legal activity going around, the official PSJailbreak just disappeared for a few days, but today they have updated their site with more information: (more…)

garyopa from PSX-Scene has reported, that SCEA has been granted a temporary restraining order against companies, selling PS3 Jailbreak Devices, here is a quote from his thread:

In our on-going exclusive in-depth coverage of SCEA’s court-room battle with the PSJAILBREAK’ers, we have got another new court document, this one is signed order by Judge WILLIAM H ALSUP granting SCEA a Temporary Restraining Order against the named Defendants along with of course the currently un-named John Does #10 thru 100!

The order basically states the following:

Quote:
1. Defendants and their officers, employees, attorneys and representatives, and all other persons or entities in privity or acting in concert or participation with defendants, are immediately temporarily restrained from selling, offering for sale, marketing, advertising, promoting, installing, distributing or otherwise trafficking in circumvention devices, including but not limited to any or all of the PS3 Jailbreak devices, any copies or versions of backup manager or any other hardware or software that bypasses technological copyright protection measures in SCEA’s PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system;

2. Defendants shall preserve all communications, including email communications, and other documents relating to their purchase, sale, receipt or distribution of circumvention devices, including but not limited to the PS3 Jailbreak devices, the backup manager or any other hardware or software that bypasses technological copyright protection measures in SCEA’s PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system, and that defendants shall not delete, remove, transfer or in any way dispose of such communications and documents;

3. This order shall be binding upon the parties to this action and all other persons or entities who receive actual notice of this order by personal service or otherwise;

4. This order will be effective upon plaintiff’s posting of $5000 security with the court pursuant to FRCP 65(c);

5. Plaintiff shall serve defendants, defendants’ resident agents or counsel with a copy of this order;

6. This order shall remain in effect until the date the hearing on the order to show cause set forth below or until such further dates as set by the court or stipulated to by the parties.
This order covers the currently named defendants:

Quote:
VLAD GAZOUNE doing business as ZOOMBA LDC; SHOPPSJAILBREAK.COM
THAHN NGUYGEN doing business as USATECHCITY, LTD
ARTHUR BATES II doing business as PSP PIT STOP
TOM NOOKER doing business as BUYPS3JAILBREAK.WEBS.COM
ALEX ESQUIVEL doing business as NDSGAMER
BIN LE ZHONG aka BEN LEE doing business as PS3BREAKONLINE.COM
FAI KING FONG doing business as PS3BREAKONLINE.COM
HUANRAN LEE doing business as GETPS3BREAK.COM
and currently unnamed JOHN DOES #10 through #100!
The above people have until October 8, 2010 at 12 PM PDT to file a written reply to this court order in defense, and then SCEA has until October 12, 2010 at 9 AM PDT to file an update to their defense.

The big showdown starts in front of Judge Vaughn R Walker for a hearing on the order to show cause on October 12, 2010 at 10 AM in Courtroom 6, 17th Floor, 450 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco CA 94102.

For the full history to this story see our previous in-depth PS3 Wikileaks threads on this complete showdown between SCEA vs. PSJailbreak Hackers!

Wikileaks – Part 2: http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67646
Wikileaks – Part 1: http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=67178
The Original Start: http://psx-scene.com/forums/showthread.php?t=65284

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Last week garyopa from PSX Scene reported that Sony was busy searching for those that sold PS Jailbreak and they were also looking at PSGroove, PSFreedom and OpenPSJailbreak, you can find this thread here.

Well it seems that garyopa is creating his own “PS3 Wikileaks” as he has posted a lot more legal documents on his site, this is what he said(take a note of the line i highlighted in red):

Well another week has passed-by, and time for another PSX-SCENE Wikileaks special!

Again we are uncovering the ongoing battle of SCEA to stop the outright sale of PSJailbreak devices.

Last week we showcased a ton of court documents, which showed SCEA was very upset at the fact the original PSJailbreak had spread like wildfire and turned into various open free ports, like PSGroove and PSFreedom.

We left you with them pushing the courts to find out the true people behind various websites, that have been promoting the various Jailbreak devices.

SCEA has previously just listed in their court files, “John Does #1 thru 100″, this now has been changed, with the following people NAMED:

Thanh Nguyen
USA Tech City
7861 13th St., Unit D
Westminster, California 92683
Email: contact@usatechcity.com

Arthur Bates, II
www.psppitstop.com
6307 Sol Duc Dr.
Bremerton, Washington 98311
Email: art.bates@mac.com

Alex Esquivel
www.ndsgamer.com
530 Buckingham Rd., Apt. #521
Richardson, Texas 75081
Email: alexesquivel2004@yahoo.com

Tom Nooker

http://buyps3jailbreak.webs.com

1115 E. Cedar Ave.
Manitowoc, Wisconsin 54220
Email: ttnooker@yahoo.com

Bin Li Zhong aka Ben Lee
www.ps3breakonline.com
2746 Durfee Ave.
El Monte, California 91732
Email: sales@ps3breakonline.com

Fai King Fong
www.ps3breakonline.com
2746 Durfee Ave.
El Monte, California 91732
Email: sales@ps3breakonline.com

The main one that SCEA wanted last week, “Vlad Gazoune” the owner of “Zoomba LDC” and “shoppsjailbreak.com” turns out from Yahoo information, that he is living in Russia, so now Sony will have to set down their MIB team (lawyers) over there to track him down with help from local police.

Another bad-apple that SCEA is after now, is “HuanRan Lee” of “getps3break.com” as he seems they been selling 250gb HDD’s loaded with over 75 games on it, I hope they burn in hell for crossing the line on this!

Also one ebay’er that been selling devices online, before Ebay banned all sales of these devices is named:

Quote:
ten87510 / ttnooker0yahoo. com
Tom Nooker
1115 E. Cedar Ave., Manitowoc, WI, 54220
In this round of court documents filed by SCEA, they are showing the courts they own the rights to the names “Playstation, PSP, PS, PS3″ so they are pushing the courts for speedy discovery for any website that uses this trademarked “letters / names” in their domain names.

One website that is mentioned a few times is “PS3HAX” for their in-depth reviews and tutorials on using the “backup manager” and of course “PS3ISO” for their daily updates for grabbing various games directly from the ‘net!

And finally, we end tonight’s Wikileaks special with thanks to SCEA for printing out a whole thread from our very own website PSX-SCENE to produce “Exhibit X” it is of course the now famous “PS Jailbreak Compatibility List”, Sony is using this as PROOF that over 300 games work using the PSJailbreak and PS3Break devices. Hey, guys, don’t kill the messenger!

Here is all the new court documents, there is a few that are listed as “submitted under seal”, so they are of course “blank”, and the information contained will not be visible until cough the full “Jury Trial” which SCEA is also asking the courts for in the so-far named people which have now been served with a TBA court date.

You can view garyopa’s thread and legal documents on his site, here

Exhibit A Mentions PS3HaX

A PS3HaX member, by the name of PlayOS Developer has released information, on a project he is working on, here is a quote from the original post:

Thanks to PS Jailbreak, I’ve been able to finally make a proper running version of the first custom PS-Dedicated operating system “PlayOS”

PlayOS is a Linux-Based system.
It takes up 730MB of your external hard drive as it runs off External Media (Backup Manager).
Easy to use.
Built-in dedicated web browser “PlayBrowse”.
Compatible with 3.41 only.
You need to have a development board! Will not work with mobile phones except the Nokia N900 (Will have to look into this).
Video coming soon.
Hardware acceleration (just like OS X) enabled. This means .mkv files in 1080p!
Support for file types:
.zip
.tar
.gz
.mp3
.avi
.mp4
.divx
.exe – ONLY PlayOS Coded ones! Windows applications will not work with this.

I’ll tease you with some pics for now

This operating system will be a ps3hax.net exclusive

To view the original thread, or to thank PlayOS Developer, visit his thread HERE

Please note that we have labeled this as a fake.

About ten days i posted here about another clone, called PS3AVR/TinyAVR, well it seems that these clones are fakes and that the download file on the site is a virus, this story was reported by PSX-Scene, here is what they said:

WARNING: PS3AVR / TINYAVR BOARDS ARE FAKE!

Unforunately this board being sold around the world as PS3AVR or TINYAVR has turned out to be nothing more than a fake. The setup files on their website drop a virus. The board is unrecognisable by any operating system. Resellers have gone into hiding thus passing on all damage to us consumers.

For more information, please see these other reports by users:

http://www.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?156175-Ps3avr

http://www.ps3hax.net/showthread.php?t=13625

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Just now ps3key has posted that they are open for business. As promised on September 20th they will be allowing users to pre-order the PS3Key worldwide. Of course the device will be shipped with just the bootloader and not the pre-compiled hex data for obvious legal reasons. But once your device comes in your free to upload your own.

Be sure to check out our tutorial on the various install methods and hex files you can use on these jailbreak devices.

Pre-Order Here

Another day, another clone – this one known as ecliPS3

* Fully updatable via USB on your PC using an encrypted bootloader
* USB Plug and Play solution that installs in seconds without any need to open up the PS3.
* Does not break your warranty seal.
* Compatible with all PS3 models, both Fat and Slim.
* Supports all regions: USA, JAP, PAL and KOREA.
* Optimized and enhanced code (most competing products simply use available code)
* Disables forced software updates and will never brick your console.
* Supports most games and homebrew applications.
* Easy-to-use software for backing up, managing, and playing games from external USB Hard Drive.
* Playing games from HDD is much more enjoyable, benefiting from greatly enhanced seek and loading times.
* Supports installing homebrew application on PS3 and external USB media.
* Simple and clear illustrations will guide you to install step by step.
* ecliPS3 is supplied blank. Users can download the latest “Firmware Manager” from our website and choose what firmware they prefer to install from the many available!

[VIA]

The PSJailbreak payload has now been fully made public for other devs to devour and understand how the original exploit worked.

To quote:

1. It gets control at Exploit_Entry, which copies the rest of the payload to the fixed address 0×8000000000700000.

2. Exploit_Main copies a resident part of the payload to another location, creates virtual USB device driver called “MOD” with 3 functions, hooks some VSH functions via TOC entry and does some permanent in-ram patching. when the work is done it zeroes itself out.

3. The resident part has basically 3 purposes: (a)It manages virtual USB device, (b)It does some on-the-fly patching and (c)It hooks all the game disk file accesses from the VSH.

3a. The virtual USB device is needed to make sure the original PS3JB device in plugged in. Once the correct device is plugged (the one with the AAAAC0DE) device driver initializes the variable to 1 (see kmod_func1 – probably “identify device”, and kmod_func2 – “initialize device”). If one pulls the device out, the function kmod_func3_call_panic “term device” is called which causes a kernel panic.

3b. The on-the-fly patching part of the code is probably called on virtual memory page remapping and does additional patching in-place. It identifies if the pages requires patching byte calculating it’s “hash” and comparing to the table entries. One of the patches enables developer menu/settings called “category_game_tool2.xml#root” which probably enables support of the pkgs and other dev stuff.

3c. The hooks from the VSH are intended to redirect all on-BDVD file requests (or probably just “open”) from VSH to the HDD saved backup. The launcher saves the base directory of the game started and after that all the file names are prepended with it. that’s how the backup feature works. The LV1 still needs BDVD auth to launch the game, so the original disc in BDVD is still required.

4. Adds a Syscall (Syscall 36) which will be called by Backup Loader to activate the virtual bluray drive with the correct backed-up disk.

5. Patches the return value from Hypercall 99 so that we can launch unsigned apps.

You can view the full payload HERE.

The situation is going from bad to worse for the PSJailbreak team as today Hong Kong and Russia are banning the sales, and distribution of PSJailbreak.

In Hong Kong, Sony is busy ripping packages open at customs and seizing all forms of PSJailbreak.

Likewise in Russia, PSJailbreak in deemed illegal:

“Please note that any method of distributing counterfeit games for the PS3 is illegal. As is illegal to manufacture, sale and use of any technical means to neutralize the defense of the use of pirated products.”

Untranslated release documents:

So if you PSJailbreak has not arrived, not arriving, then this is a good indicator that its stuck and being seized .

This payload makes use of the /app_home/PS3_GAME menu item. You may place an application on a USB drive under the PS3_GAME folder to run it without installing a package. Note that simply extracting a .pkg onto the USB drive is not quite enough for a program to run. EBOOT.BIN must be slightly modified to boot properly.

Aerial’s Github
Aerial’s Twitter

Well the clones just keep on coming, here is another one, named PS3AVR, it is based of the AT90USB1286 Chip and can be used for a variety of projects including PSJailbreak and PSGroove.

Specifications:
* Fully compatible with other AT90USB/ATMEGA32 boards, like Blackcat, Teensy++, AT90USBKEY
* USB Plug and Play solution that installs in seconds without any need to open up the PS3
* Does not break your warranty seal
* Compatible with all PS3 models, both Fat and Slim upto firmware v3.41
* Supports all regions: USA, JAP, PAL and KOREA
* PS3AVR is 100% hardware and firmware compatible with the original Jailbreak firmware, that should let it run any firmware needed for next Boot Manager versions
* PS3AVR is 100% compatible with PSGroove & OpenJailBreak shellcode
* You can connect to your console HDD directly using FTP
* PS3AVR is fully updatable by PC using FLIP with no additional hardware
* Disables forced software updates and will never brick your console
* Supports games and homebrew applications by Backup Manager
* Easy-to-use software for backing up, managing, and playing games from external USB HDD
* Playing games from HDD is much more enjoyable, benefiting from greatly enhanced seek and loading times
* Supports installing homebrew application on PS3 and external USB media
* Sealed unit so no chance of damage to dongle or PS3 USB port

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Here is another Chineese clone of PSJailbreak that is out there on the streets, presenting P3Free.

To quote:

# Supports all PS3 models, FAT and Slim all regions
# After booting the P3Free you can remove the device from the ps3 and continue your homebrew
# Support all homebrew, like Back Up Manager and PS3 FTP Server
# Can backup Blue-Ray ISO to ps3 internal disk and external USB disk
# Supports network transfers, FTP transfer your data between PC and PS3
# Fully upgradeable, supports USB upgrade and FPC port upgrade
# Contains a build-in bootloader
# Has an hardware RESET button to reset the device when needed

NTAuthority over at psfreedom has just released his beta iPhone/iTouch PSFreedom port.

Currently it runs on the iPhone 2G/3G and iPod touch 1G with OpeniBoot installed. For the iPhone you must compile the driver yourself, also be sure to read the readme.

Download Mirror

Sooner or later we are going to get bored of hearing of all these clones. Another clone is out on the market known as PSLiberator. Don’t get all excited, this seems to just be the USB board as the code/exploit does not ship with the product (lol). It retails for about ~$62.

To quote:

PS3Liberator Features:

• Works on all PS3 (PAL / NTSC) * Slim and Fat
• Play PS3 backups from the internal drive or USB disk
• Compatible with all sizes of external drives
• Updates via USB PS3liberator
• Possible to connect the console via FTP
• Play homebrew and emulators
• Can be removed after the console started
• PS3liberator contains no code Sony! 100% legal
• Quality workmanship impeccable NBZ

PS3Liberator F.A.Q.:

The PS3Liberator compatible with all game consoles?

The PS3liberator works with all consoles without exception, unless an update to 3.42 or greater was performed. If your Playstation 3 is in firmware 3.41 or lower, then the PS3liberator is compatible with your console is a FAT, a SLIM, foreign or not (PAL, NTSC-U and NTSC-J)

The dongle PS3Liberator is it easy to use? should you open the console?

No action is required on the console. No openings need be made, using only one port PS3liberator USBen front of the console. Simply insert it, start the console, then load a game from the PS3′s internal hard drive of the console, or from an external hard drive.

Do we need to burn the games?

No, you can use the internal hard drive of the console, change to a bigger place, or through an external hard drive capacity of your choice, formatted as FAT32. The games will load much faster and more.

How to update PS3Liberator?

The dongle is equipped with a USB port. You simply connect via USB to your PC, then load the new version of the file in the software to update it. In case of error, the PS3liberator is equipped with own module is updated, it is possible to reprogram it as many times as you want.

How to use PS3Liberator with my original games, or if a friend lent me a game?

The software “Backup Manager” allows you to copy the original games directly on your internal drive or external, without having to perform manipulation on a PC. The copying time will depend on the size of the game, but in general it takes 40 minutes to copy a game (the weather being a bit longer if one copy on the external USB drive).

How to install an emulator or homebrew with my PS3Liberator?

When the dongle is recognized by the console, an icon “install package” is this to install on the PS3 homebrew and emulators you want. Pkg you wish to install and run the installer package.

Is it that I can connect to my network console?

Yes, the module NBZ is expected to launch an application network, allowing you to connect from a computer directly to your console via FTP, and have remote access to your hard drive, internal or external.

Is PS3Liberator legal?

Our dongle is 100% legal, because while sending, it is totally devoid of any code. Only a bootloader you can program the chip upon receipt, to make it functional.

Is there a guaranteed PS3Liberator?

Of course, our product is guaranteed in case of trouble. Simply return the defective product to the shipping address, and will be substituted. In case of doubt or question, the contact section you will join us.

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