PS3 With 3.50 Firmware Jailbroken Without Downgrade

Khyber writes "Hackers: 2 Sony: 0 — that's the current standing score now that the X3 team have successfully performed a jailbreak on the official 3.50 PS3 firmware, allowing homebrew applications and more to be enabled. Here's a video of the jailbreak in action."

Re:ok ..

[SilenceBE]

Yeah Sony shouldn't had removed the "Other OS" option as those hacks are being mostly used for supporting linux on those systems. That is why the whole modchip industry exist, just to cater the linux needs of people.

It is a shame that Linux is being used as an alibi because (even If I was also mad that they removed linux support) we shouldn't be hypocrites why these hacks in the first place exist... . It even doesn't matter if a Sony product does support linux as the mantra on slashdot is that it is not done to use sony products0 But then again I was thinking the same thing about flash, although when its about the iPad we are pro flash. Pffff sometimes it is really difficult to follow the slashdot party line.

So what does Sony break next?

[Sarusa]

So I guess the real question now is what PS3 functionality Sony is going to cripple in the next forced upgrade to try to defeat this.

Not confirmed

[neokushan]

This is largely unconfirmed and most likely fake - and I'll tell you why.

Check out the very end of the video, the "game" exits and a message is displayed in the top right corner. See that message? Retail consoles don't display that, but Debug/TEST consoles do. Any Debug unit can be upgraded to debug Firmware 3.50 and play all the homebrew out there.

Re:ok ..

[hedwards]

Do you have a better theory as to why the hacks only started about the time that Sony took that feature away? I know there was that one guy that claimed to have gained root. But he refused to actually release it and Sony reacted by taking away the Other OS feature and updating firmwares to fight the efforts.

It seems a bit much that it took this long for the first successful crack to appear and now they're coming out so quickly.

Re:2:40 minues of my life I'll never have back aga

[flimflammer]

It is pretty silly that he spends most of it wandering the menus for seemingly no reason. Could have easily shown everything that needed to be shown in like 30 seconds.

Re:Not confirmed

[flimflammer]

I'm also suspicious of when he's scrolling through the system settings, and then raises the controller up in front of the camera. When he pulls the controller away, he's now in a different location. Anyone who uses debug/test stations knows there's several system settings in there that don't exist on retail units. It's almost like he's covering it up while he passes them.

Re:Interesting scorekeeping

[Troed]

At some point Sony decided that too many people were exploiting the OtherOS feature for piracy

You mean, zero? That's the amount of people who were exploiting OtherOS for piracy when Sony removed the functionality.