[Pirate]

"Hello hypervisor, I'm geohot".

Probably the last thing we would expect to see on the PS3, after 3 years it seems legendary iPhone hacker George Hotz (Geohot) has managed to crack the PS3 security in under a month (Geohot was the first person to unlock the iPhone). He has posted on his blog that he has full hypervisor access and read/write access to the entire system memory. He also says that this is not patchable and plans to reveal the method soon. There is still more work to be done according to Geohot.

Original post:

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

Very good news for PS3 hackers who have waited very patiently for this day, and great job Geohot, we will bring you more updates as they are available.

[VIA]

UPDATE #1 (1-23-2010):
http://www.haxnetwork.net/showthread...8766#post98766

[gliitch]

Could this well be true? :D If so, Yipeeeeee!!! no more slow crappy linux :D.. ok ok .. i mean... **** YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH, im practically salivating at the thought of the possibilities, this will bring. :D

[grimlord]

**** my brains... if this is true then... Hell fckin' yeah, champagne is on me!

[David562]

That guy is famous in the iphone/ipod section and now the PS3 section DAYUM! Nice job Geohot! PROPS TO YOU! :D

[weed37]

Before you all ji**is your pants this is only a start and will take time to figure out how to compress all his gadgets and software into one simple install untill then i recommend you all keep your hands in your pockets

[senas78]

That doesn't change the fact that beast has been slain. :D
I might just take the hard way and not wait for software. Time to take the solder iron from the 360 and apply it on this beast.

[$n!pR]

Not quite hacked yet, he's only dumped the hv for now...

[ShaX5]

This is great news, now I actually have a reason to buy a PS3.

[Spiker]

Proof please? At least a 'Hello World' would show us like everybody else does on a new hacked piece of technology.

Don't get me wrong, I believe this guy more than 100%, but there still must be SOMETHING to show...

Understandable that this is extremely exciting. I about sh@ myself when I read it also. Reversing is going to be the hardest part as well as finding decryption keys and the software needed to run everything correctly through all the hardware.

[senas78]

The PS3 have their security key inside the chip itself. All the checking and decrypting of the firmware occurs on inside one of the spus on boot up. During this isolation mode, nothing can view this process.