Open Source PS3 Jailbreak Released 226
tlhIngan writes "Despite all the lawsuits and injunctions by Sony to keep the PS3 Jailbreak out of modder's hands, it appears that a third party has made a clone. The best part is, it only requires a cheap (approximately $40) development board by Atmel, and the requisite software is open-source. Get the Atmel code from GitHub and apply a small patch which will enable backup play (the code by itself only lets you run unsigned code, the patch allows for BD backups). The code is GPLv3. It would be highly ironic if someone ported this to Linux USB Gadgets, then you could use a Linux device to jailbreak your PS3, to which Sony removed Linux functionality. An Android phone would be suitable."
Hehehe (Score:5, Funny)
Nice way to ask an entire community of nerds to do that for you!
Now, let's get working!
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The required ATmega device is so cheap, I'd just buy one of those if I ever needed it.
How long until psnews.com and github.com receive DMCA takedowns?
Re:Hehehe (Score:5, Informative)
Now, let's get working!
http://kakaroto.homelinux.net/2010/08/psjailbreak-usb-gadget-kernel-driver/ [homelinux.net]
There you go. Still not released, but well underway (check the blog for updates).
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I can't understand why any of you own a PS3 in the first place.
Really? I mean.......really? You can't think of a single reason why anyone would want one?
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Because it runs Linux?...oh wait.
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Really? I mean.......really? You can't think of a single reason why anyone would want one?
Seriously... I mean, it does EVERYTHING. Or so I've been told.
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I can't understand why any of you own a PS3 in the first place.
Really? I mean.......really? You can't think of a single reason why anyone would want one?
Well, the single reason I can think of is hating Microsoft more than Sony. It's tough call though.
Who do you hate more, the guy that killed mommy or the guy that killed daddy? (Think of this as a lyrical exaggeration, of course)
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False dichotomy. Why can't I also hate Nintendo?
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Nintendo is no saint at all, but I don't think it has reached the same Evil Overlord status as MS and Sony.
Apparently you don't remember the late 80's/early 90's.
They made Microsoft and Sony look like Google. (Okay, a little tongue-in-cheek simile, but the point is sincere).
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The thing about Microsoft's monopoly is that it's been around so long, and its backroom influence is so subtly orchestrated (as proven in the monopoly court) that you just don't know what life in IT would be like without the monopoly in action. Microsoft is a lot more than just the XBox.
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So? Sony isn't a monopoly. The question isn't which has been around longer. The question is which has a bigger effect on IT. Microsoft's monopoly undeniably has a bigger effect on IT than does Sony's business practices.
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Blu-Ray is not a monopoly any more than "Sun's" Java is. There are other vendors than Sony to buy Blu-Ray from.
And even if it were, Blu-Ray doesn't exert anywhere near the influence over IT as Microsoft does - if any at all.
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MS, while making some really annoying calls, and more than a few questionable ones, hasn't really harmed me, or anyone I know nearly as much as Sony.
I think it's more a conflict of interest than most of what MS does
I think this is only because Microsoft has become a de facto standard on the desktop, and because people have short memories. Had Microsoft behaved ethically in the 90s, the PC landscape would look very different (and would likely be better.)
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And it wasn't just "a particular CD"; it was a nice list of titles [eff.org]; 102 different albums in total according to Wikipe
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Well, the single reason I can think of is hating Microsoft more than Sony.
Hmmm, I'm no MS fan for sure; I hate the way they design and write programs. But none of their evil has been directed towards me, whereas Sony rooted my PC and really fucked it up. My daughter bought a CD at the now-defunct record store she worked at, and trusting that a big company like Sony wouldn't deliberately put malware on their products, ran the programs.
ALL of my music recording/burning/ripping software was trashed; my P2P app
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What would have been helpful -- and I'm really not trying to start a flame war here, just giving food for thought -- is if Windows could be upgraded easily without trashing the apps and user settings. If there were some sort of migration possible, I know I'd be more likely to get excited about trying Windows 7 instead of sticking with XP in my VM.
Recently I upgraded to Snow Leopard from Tiger. That's 2 versions away. I installed a second hard drive in my la
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Microsoft's problem is that unlike OSX where apps generally put things in one place (documents in a documents folder, settings in settings files etc), on Windows, its impossible to know where apps may have put things.
Some apps put their settings in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER
Some apps put their settings in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Some apps put their settings in a config file in the windows or my documents folders.
Some apps put their settings in a config file in their own folder.
Some do all of the above.
Not to mention all the apps that do things like register COM objects, install system services and who knows what else.
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I'm just thinking as technology continues to advance so quickly, why not improve the process? It would result in more machine sales; I think most people are concerned about migrating their data and programs which right now is a royal PIA. Moving a profile is relatively simple but the rest, not so much.
How does Apple accomplish this? I know
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Because we like the games?
And the other alternative charge to play online?
And the other alternative has not the games we like?
And the other alternative is buying a computer? (which also may not have the games we like)
I own only a Wii but I have a PS3 in my wallet's sight :)
I have been thinking between buying an Xbox or a ps3... but after xbox live price increment, the PS3 has more and more points (free netplay, blueray, better graphics... and soon homebrew)
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Just as long as you realize you're supporting a conglomerate that is actively trying to remove all your rights concerning copyright, among others.
To put it more bluntly, you're giving money to a lobbyist group so they can screw you with it.
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If you're a consumer you're almost certainly doing this. Unless you bought your home outright, only shop at local farmer's markets, sew your own clothes, and don't purchase any entertainment to speak of.
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My Dell came with Windows on it. Doesn't that count as a root attack?
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Bah, it's easy to get rid of that. Pop in the Linux install CD and half an hour later (most of which you can spend reading a book) your PC is MS-free. Now, if I'd had Linux on that PC instead of Windows Sony couldn't have hurt me.
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I more or less agree with you on this, but the slashdot demographic is still quite diverse in many ways. We have Apple fanbois, Windows fanbois (AKA trolls) and others. We have people who practice what they preach and others who preach but fail to practice.
Personally, my boycott of Sony is for reasons of quality that goes back a very long way. The only Sony device I ever owned that was any good was my camcorder... I still have it but haven't used it in a very long time. All other things ended up failing
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I can't say that I have noticed many Sony fans or even Sony apologists.
Um, look at the score on my original anti-Sony comment. There are at least two Sony fanbois here with mod points, as it's sitting at -1 flamebait. And it happens every time I mention Sony's evilness.
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I will never buy a Sony anything.
I have a Sony WM-D6C - works quite well, sound quality is great. Though probably it was made when SOny meant quality.
Oh, and I also have a Sony Handycam DCR-HC-90E - I got it really cheap but with a broken LCD which I replaced, also works well.
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I can't say that I have noticed many Sony fans or even Sony apologists. So either they choose not to speak up or there are a lot of people who prioritize games over good character or good sense.
I like their TV's and the PS3, but I'm not exactly a fanboy. I don't think their business practices are much different than any of the giants'. I thought the rootkit scandal was embarrasing, but I don't get why MS got out of that mess so easily, while Sony became marked for life.
I tried to question an anti-sony rant here one time before, but got modded to hell (even though it turned out I was right), so at least I am very careful when trying to defend Sony.
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I think you forgot to use your sarcasm (~S) flag there. At least looking at the replies and your being modded Flamebait and all.
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No sarcasm, I'm serious. Looks like Sony fanbois (or employees) have mod points today. No matter, it won't hurt my karma; every anti-Sony comment I post gets modded like that.
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Thing is, Sony doesn't like homebrew.
From the POV of the game vendors, homebrew and piracy are the same thing...competition.
Sony's incentive to stop piracy comes from pressure by game vendors.
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Nice way to condone piracy idiot... let's not pretend anyone wants to use for the things like Homebrew.
Fsck off, troll.
Some of us DO want to use it to keep our legitimate games libraries on hard disk. There's zero technical or legal reason that the machine shouldn't do this, it's just an annoying DRM measure. I know defeating DRM is itself now illegal, but that's a travesty of justice IMHO and not a law I will respect.
So you can go on about condoning piracy all you like (and I know that a lot of people will
Coming soon! (Score:3, Insightful)
Patch 3.43. bye bye USB. (Score:3, Funny)
HOT FROM SONY SITE:
Downloading and installing the PlayStation®3 system software update will update your PS3 system's operating system to include the latest security patches, settings, features and other items. We encourage you to check this page from time to time for system software updates and to always maintain your system to use the latest version of the system software.
An update to the PS3 system software will be was released on September 27, 2010. You can use this update to upgrade your system sof
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[citation needed]
I call shenanigans.
Re:Patch 3.43. bye bye USB. (Score:4, Funny)
An update to the PS3 system software will be was released on September 27 , 2010
*brain explodes*
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Oblig. Adams (Score:4, Funny)
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By the Once and Future King!
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I'm unsure why you're modded troll; I thought it was very funny.
Seriously though, while they won't remove USB, isn't it likely they'll remove the ability to use USB hubs?
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Just read the sony website [playstation.com]. Don't trust a post on a forum. They did disable other-os security is everything on a ps3.
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First, parent is not a troll. Sabotaging advertised features in hardware that has already been sold is bad. That includes the 'other OS' option too, not just the semi-humorous suggestion of USB ports. The state AG (attorney general) is responsible for acting on customer complaints from people in their state, and they do act if enough complaints are received. Parent's advice is quite rational and should be acted upon by victims of corporate stupidity. If several state AGs are considering lawsuits, you can be
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They *are* shitting off a cliff.
Why do you think the crap keeps landing on us way down here at the bottom?
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simple solution (Score:2)
All Sony has to do is sign their firmware, and make it so that the hardware won't accept anything other than Sony approved updates.
Do they do that already?
Oh, and another solution: Mark updates with an expiration date such that the unit will refuse to run if its firmware is too stale.
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Please, please don't give them ideas.
This is like the Net Neutrality folks yelling for net neutrality and the big wigs at the telecoms going "Shit, we can do that? Why aren't we doing that? We need to do that!"
Sony has enough bad ideas already.
Also that other solution would probably have a bug included that bricked the PS3 if there was a power outage or something knowing Sony.
Re:simple solution (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually all Sony really has to do is give people a way to run home brew on their own systems without letting pirates in and none of this would have ever happened.
Since they screwed that up now the cats out the bag. People aren't going to stop hacking it until they can run their homebrew and linux again.
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This is exactly the truth. I am upset with every place linking to the patch to allow 'backups' when I just want OtherOS and homebrew back.
Re:simple solution (Score:4, Insightful)
I never quite understood that "If only they'd allowed homebrew, none of this* would have happened!" reasoning.
After all, you can certainly run homebrew on a PC, but this* still happens.
In addition, you -could- run homebrew on the PS3. You didn't get access to the BD, you didn't get full access to the graphics bits and pieces, but you could run homebrew. Apparently that wasn't enough for some, somebody decided to poke at the hypervisor to gain access to these resources, and once they started succeeding a bit, OtherOS was nixed on the older models as well, citing 'security concerns'.
*"this"?
Seems like homebrew and linux were possible right there and then...
Right. Backups. I guess that's really what "this" is.
Sounds rather threatening. Open your platform to homebrew, without restriction, or else we'll open it for you - and make it stupid-simple for this* to happen as a(n un)fortunate 'side-effect'.
That out of the way.. I'm looking forward to an actual thriving homebrew scene for the PS3, with lots of indie developers making the games for PS3 they always wanted to but never had the funds to become a licensed developer, and didn't have the access they needed to develop their envisioned games.
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You seem to be confused with yourself..
You claim here that you can run homebrew, even though you go on to state there is no graphics access which makes your whole statement pointless with regards to games.
and here you say it prevents them from running h
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Right. Backups. I guess that's really what "this" is.
Well, I do want to play backups. And I have the legal right to make them, and to use them instead of my regular media.
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I own a PS3 and I'll be looking into specifically for this feature. Fuck backups. And fuck piracy too. I don't mind paying for games, but after paying for a console with a harddisk in it, and waiting ten minutes for each game to "install" itself I seriously resent having to get my ass off of the couch to switch games.
Come on Sony. I've paid for the system, I've paid for the game. Stop being such fuckwits and let me use what I've already paid for.
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You mean to say that if Sony let people run arbitrary code pirates wouldn't want to try to exploit the system to play ISO dumps?
Do you understand how ridiculous that is?
Do you still believe in Santa Claus?
Do you want this 20 acres of swampland in Arizona I've got?
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By people you mean, Geohot.
Are you sure people haven't been at this since the PS3 came out? [qj.net]
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It's really simple what I mean. Stop typing and RTFA.
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I did read the fucking article.
No where in the article was OtherOS mentioned, nor was it ever mentioned why, just how. There have been efforts since the damn thing came out to hack the console and they haven't been very successful until about now. I'm not even sure if Geohot's work lead up to this, to be honest.
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Bollocks. The PS3 had Other OS support precisely until someone started hacking it to gain unauthorised access to the hypervisor including potentially the ability to run pirated games.
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That's because OtherOS was crippleware.
Homebrew in that sense had to run without the aid of the Cell that the hypervisor blocked access to.
Native, Sony approved games still had full access.
Re:simple solution (Score:4, Interesting)
Oh, and another solution: Mark updates with an expiration date such that the unit will refuse to run if its firmware is too stale.
If they ever do that, I will have to kill somebody. Besides the obvious reason, I have a driving wheel that won't work unless the system date is set before 12-22-08. The bug has been there for well over a year and there's no sign its getting fixed.
Consider that the one and only reason I bought a PS3 over a 360 is to play GT5. See how well that decision worked for me?
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For a bug like that, any price is unreasonable.
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Oh, and another solution: Mark updates with an expiration date such that the unit will refuse to run if its firmware is too stale.
The xbox360 already does this with e-fuses (e.g. certain updates blow an e-fuse which prevents older firmware from running)
Blocking (Score:2)
From the looks of things, the entire jailbreak is reliant on the PS3 being cold booted and the user having to press eject as the PS3 powers on to make it read the code from the USB key. If Sony can block this through a firmware update then that's the end of the jailbreak isn't it?
Obviously the user simply doesn't update their PS3...
So the logical next step is... (Score:2)
...to sue everybody who buys an Atmel development board. Wasn't it some satellite that went down the list of people who had bought mag card writers and threatened to sue them, regardless of what the mag card writer was being used for?
After the knee-jerk reaction of removing Linux support from the PS3 (which I actually used), I can really imagine Sony contemplating such stupidity.
F them, I'm going to play Nethack; still better than most of the games available on the PS3 anyway.
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Atmel are used for meny other things and pinball g (Score:2)
Atmel boards are used for meny other things and stern pinball use them in there pinball games.
If they are used in pinball game and many other ticket games as well other embed systems you can just do mass suing.
but steeling sat tv is not the same as running you (Score:2)
but steeling sat tv is not the same as running your own code / Linux on a box that you own and it not like you can useing and they just get games for free by just hookinh the hacked box up like how it was with sat tv hack the card hook up the dish and get free HBO.
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Or fix the USB bug that allows this exploit to work.
Which is more reasonable and cheaper?
I assume new hardware will come out soon (Score:2)
much like the PSP Slim TA088v3 motherboard which til current day still unhackable. Dark Alex has retired so.....
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What about the PSP? (Score:3, Interesting)
It would be interesting if this thing was ported to the PSP and the PSP could be used to unlock the PS3
You fools! (Score:3, Funny)
You foolish fools! Defeating DRM will let the terrorists win! Already another oil platform has exploded due to evil hackers playing unsigned content on the PS3!
Jailbroken RSX? (Score:2)
Does this jailbreak HW let programmers access the RSX videochip that the PS3 hypervisor kept locked out from Linux apps? If only for the extra 256MB (V)RAM that lets real sized apps run under Linux, but especially to get to the 1.8TFLOPS RSX, the real powerhouse of the platform. Otherwise all the graphics/video has to be rendered directly by the Cell CPU. Since there isn't a video driver that uses the Cell's SPUs, all that has to be done by the 3.2GHz PPC at the core of the Cell, which is also handling all
You don't even need the hardware (Score:2)
Just get the Atmel AVC software, emulate the chip, and use a USB interface from a laptop.
I've already tested it out, and using the JTAGICE in combo with it means you can use your computer to 'unlock' your PS3 and the 360.
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I assume the JTAGICE you refer to is a USB debugger device for these dev kits? So you do need some hardware, just not the actual AT90USBKEY or whatever you've chosen.
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JTAGICE is an emulator that can interface with other chips, but by itself you only need a computer and USB cord with that software.
I totally called it. (Score:2)
About a week ago, I said on IRC that if the legal quagmire around the PSJailbreak drags on, they should just opensource the whole thing. Sure, there'd be less money to be made for their effort (Not that they're able to sell the things right now anyway) but Sony would be pretty hard-pressed to completely suppress the device.
I was impressed by the gesture they made in removing the bootleg playing capability from the version of the code they released, even if the community ultimately turned it into a rather h
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The USB dongle is a microcontroller that emulates a 6-port USB hub. It works by attaching a sequence of fake USB devices with large configuration descriptors, one of which contains the exploit payload. The sequence of USB connections and disconnections results in a heap overflow that eventually results in the exploit code being executed with root privileges. Sony can indeed patch the hole and surely will in the next firmware update. I believe that the open-source version disables automatic firmware updat
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http://www.google.nl/search?q=ps3+jailbreak+reverse+engineered [google.nl]
This exploit is beautiful (Score:5, Informative)
http://www.ps3news.com/PS3-Dev/ps-jailbreak-ps3-exploit-reverse-engineering-is-detailed/ [ps3news.com]
It emulates a six-port hub and connects/disconnects devices with corrupted descriptors (that have their size changed on-the-fly!) in a particular order to smash the Heap so you can use a corrupted malloc boundary tag to overwrite the call to free() so that after the failed Jig authentication tries to release the memory allocated for the cryptographic response it will launch the shell code that was dropped into memory using a USB descriptor.
It brings a tear to my eye. Truly, one of the most beautiful things I ever had the privilege of understanding.
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Re:This exploit is beautiful (Score:4, Interesting)
I have blue screened my development workstation before because I had a bad descriptor that the Windows Audio driver tried to parse and it brought down the kernel. So I knew this sort of thing would be possible. I think attacking the USB host controller driver is going to become a much more common method of infection in the next few years.
But to get that far...you need dedication. You need to love the hardware. When you see it, it's like the matrix...behind the 1s and 0s and circuit board traces, there is a setting, characters, and a plot.
From there, that's how you can see the attack on the heap. That's actually the most complicated part, in my opinion. You are trying to fool the kernel into handing you a certain portion of memory. It's like social engineering...and that's what makes it hard. The kernel is interrogating you, and you have to give the right answers. Not only the right answers, but the answers must be corrupted in just the right way.
Everything from this point can be built on the work of someone before you. Pretty much all exploits eventually launch shellcode somewhere. They all need some way to launch the shellcode, and hooking a system call (in this case, free()) is a favored way to go about that. Then you need some way to do the hook, which in this case was the smashing the Heap.
So you sit there and think...how do I drop shellcode in? What function do I hook? How do I hook it? Dots appear...and then you connect them, and you annotate the connections, and you go back and you start from scratch again because you see a better way, and then finally...it all comes together.
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You'd be amazed what a bounty for getting OtherOS working again gets you.
Re:This exploit is beautiful (Score:4, Insightful)
(clarification) At least, that's my speculation. (Darn it, mixing up preview and submit.)
You'll note no significant movement was ever made on a working modchip. PS3 remained pretty much hack-free... until Sony disabled OtherOS.
geohot's glitch - for it was a glitch attack, requiring hardware intervention, and a fair pile of luck for things not to crash - was specifically targeted at the OtherOS hypervisor, only worked in OtherOS, and was simply trying to get more hardware access, but it would never have gotten you complete access (for a start, by the time you're in OtherOS, the SPU in security mode is latched off the bus, I understand, although I never got the opportunity to check personally).
Sony (characteristically, some might say) totally overreacted in the worst possible way - geohot's glitch was really not a useful exploit! - but by taking everyone's toys away, and specifically by causing a problem to a lot of security researchers who used PS3 clusters for all kinds of research (including cryptographic research, for example the MD5/SHA-1 collisions) and who could now only get replacements from eBay praying they're not updated... they made a lot of people suddenly very interested and determined to crack it, and maybe those with clusters would be equally interested in something like this, perhaps even willing to fund research? *shrug* Merely idle speculation...
So, yeah. A fairly tight architecture it is, but start annoying security researchers with the resources to decap or fab chips, let alone dump firmware and look for bugs, and you've got to expect some kind of robust response - although where it really came from originally, we may never know, and what else they have in store for the future, it's hard to tell.
It's a cute little heap overflow in the USB controller; a nice little puppy-pile of (it appears, uncleanly nested) USB hellos and goodbyes to fill the heap, and a shellcode dump for the last one. Fixable in a firmware update, yes - and PSN-bannable (even brickable, if Sony are that hardcore) if used as is, as PS3s log what applications/games you run and send that info to Sony as part of DNAS authentication (at least, they do in unmodified DNAS; it's no longer foolproof) - but this is the tip of the iceberg I'm sure - when Sony fix this, I don't doubt another bug will be found in short order, maybe a software-only one (the PS3 parses enough formats that there's basically got to be something). The arms race has officially begun.
It's correctly named, too; this is really a 'jailbreak' in exactly the same sense as used on the iPhone for example, not some modchip to let people play copied games or anything (in fact, I don't believe it can... yet).
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This isn't really a buffer overflow in the sense of smashing the stack. There's no strcmp or anything that the programmer forgot to do a bounds check on. It relies on corrupting the malloc boundary tag.
In fact, USB descriptors have a size field built into them. One of the elegant aspects of the exploit is that the descriptors are read *twice* by the PS3, and the size is being changed in between the two reads.
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I have been a PC gamer for years, but that doesn't mean that some games and genres don't work better on consoles. When was the last time you played a good party game on the PC (Worms would be my most recent, and that feels like ages ago)? How about a 2d fighting game?
I just ordered a PS3 yesterday for the purpose of playing Blazblue with friends. Sure, there is an arcade version of the game that I can torrent and play on my PC, but the input feels like shit (even with a PS3 or XBOX360 controller) and it
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Because PCs suck for gaming.
Inconsistent rigs, inconsistent play experiences, having to chase an upgrade path every 2 or 3 years versus 5 to 6 to play games(Seriously, you take 250 bucks and buy a computer that'll do Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 at 1080p and act as a slick BluRay player.
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Piracy, online cheating, support hassles? These don't ring like a reason why a company would care?
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It is, but it's also on Sony if they want to make it as difficult as humanly possible, because in order to accomplish what you want, you're opening the system to being exploited for cheating, piracy, and other problems. do you not see how this is mutually exclusive to what you want? They can't leave the door open and say, "No pirates please." and expect that wish to be granted.
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The PS3Jailbreak device is selling a circumvention device that's advertised for piracy purposes.
Cry me a god damned river. If Dark aleX were in jail, sure, let's talk, but, he wasn't charging $150 for his services.
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It's been five fucking years! Dark Alex hasn't put out firmware in at least a year!
If they were going to get him, they'd have gotten him already. Is it sue happy when someone's PROFITING off of pirating your software or circumventing your copy control? Would it be any different if Nintendo started suing everyone who sold the BannerBomb exploit?
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If it's one of the usual Atmel parts, you can probably use Digi-Key.ca
Extremely fast shipping, no customs fees.
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presumably the USAF/DARPA can use this to 'unlock' any supercomputing PS3s they have?
Because they would have updated at all? I'm sure being able to keep playing on PSN and playing the latest Blu-Rays is on the mind of the people running those clusters.