Geohot (iphone jailbreak kid) has hacked the PS3.

[Rokku]

A burner? Probably somewhere in the neighborhood of $300-600ish for a non-Sony brand, closer to $600+ for anything with Sony's name on it. As for blank Blu-Ray discs, idk.

[Dmitry]

Blu-ray discs were about $25 a piece for a write-once disc last year, not sure about currently.

[pnoyhd13]

is this current

[Jefe]

A pack of 20 blu ray discs of 25 gigs is like 35-40 bucks.

[Charismatic]

I bought a blu-ray burner for $100.
They aren't anywhere near as expensive as these guys are making them out to be.

[Rokku]

All I said was probably, just threw out figures based on a couple price checks via a google search. Where'd you pick up a Blu-Ray Burner for $100?

[Charismatic]

I got it from newegg, just checked and saw that that the cheapest on there now is about $200.
Guess I got lucky.

[Rokku]

Yeah, I saw that one on Newegg earlier. $100 is still a pretty sweet deal though for sure.

[Dmitry]

I saw a burner for $60 on there last week. I think it was a no-name though so I passed on it.

[Blabj]

I'm with Julian on this one. I'm not particularly for burning PS3 games, but if they were able to add PS2 emulation onto the PS3, that would mean I'd be able to finally retire my PS2 to the back of my closet and digitise my collection of games.

I don't think I'll be doing this any time soon, though. The time it takes for the theory of making something hackable, to an actual documented process in layman's terms and active development of homebrew applications is pretty huge. I'd say late summer at the earliest - if what's been said is true.

[Blabj]

Well, turns out the guy just released the source to his hack, along with some spiel about how his hack works (that I'm not claiming to understand) so we might be seeing results sooner than I had previously mentioned.

[Kaisha]

Heh, if I'm reading this right, it'll only work on PS3 Fat since it relies on OtherOS actually do stuff to interact with the RAM and hardware, and he's also working on an older firmware, so for all we know Sony may have already 'patched' it.

I guess it's a stepping stone though if someone else is willing to go through with it to find a software means of exploitation, although I doubt that would come anytime soon since I'm sure Sony learned well from their PSP about the usual buffer-overflow means of operating code. (hence the hypervisor)


Also, some other dude claims what Geohot think is possible, isn't: http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.com/2...continues.html


I personally see nothing coming out of this.

[Shojin]

lol he gave up trying to get the keys?

Reading his last post on the site, basically what he has done is "guys i haev rl to attend to, got shit 2 do, here is code i was usin u guyz do the rest bye". Now we'll have to see what everyone else can come up with.

[Exoduso]

Bluray burners and discs are not that expensive...
Would be worth it if this comes to fruition.

[Gokulo]

You also get a hdd so no need to burn everything.