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It’s a great day for developers and hackers alike, first we get to see the release of PS3MFW builder along with the sources from an0nym0us and his team. He will also release PL3 loader, an homebrew application app that first being a proof of concept and originally coded by KaKaRoTo. UPDATE: Thanks to euss, you can now download the compiled Windows installer portable version here: ps3mfw-w32_portable.rar (4.57 MB) Then, user has released HVDebug where everyone can now enable HV debugging from GameOS. The project is of course inspired with graf_chokolo’s immense hacks on PS3′s hypervisor that I’m sure we hear them crying constantly in the console. Speaking of graf_chokolo, it seems that the man has now installed Gentoo on the internal hard disk of the PS3 slim. The first step forward to the HV CFW or let’s just say OtherOS++, miles better version of the old OtherOS from $ONYy which they removed last year. Angry customers dragged them to court because of their stupidity. The man who is also currently in court battle with $ONY, geohot, is allegedly using OtherOS in some way to help him obtain the metldr. The exploit has been widely compared with the one that Mathieulh has discovered recently and fast becoming on everyone’s wanted list because of it’s ability to exploit future updates from $ONY. The thing about the hack is that, OtherOS is not actually necessary, and that’s coming from Mathieulh himself. The bootloader cannot be updated, as such the bootloader keys that decrypt lv0 cannot be changed on existing consoles, thus they remain the same since 1.00 The metldr keys aren’t the keys that sign metldr, they are the keys that are stored within metldr’s binary. In fact metldr and the bootloader aren’t selfs, as such they are signed and encrypted with different algorithms than the rest of the ps3 binaries. I see a lot of nonesense regarding lv0 so let me clarify a few things for you: 1. lv0 isn’t a loader it’s a ppu binary 2. Lv0 isn’t encrypted per console and can be updated with the rest of the coreos 3. Lv0 is decrypted by the bootloader, there is no such thing as a lv0ldr. 4. The bootloader keys cannot be updated/modified on EXISTING hardware 5. lv0.2 is NOT a binary, it’s a new metadata for lv0 which is to be decrypted and verified by a new bootloader (which is to be available on future ps3s), it is NOT used by the current bootloader (and thus in current playstation 3 consoles)

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