PlayStation®3 General Discussion

[ProjectVRD]

Thanks to Mr. Hotz the PS3 is now apparently hackable and he is due to post his full results for others to read through. He claims he has nearly full control other than the memory control is still out of his hands. He also compliments Sony (and IBM I suppose) in saying that the PS3 is a very secure system.... it should be, it's been 3 years since it was launched worldwide.

George Hotz states that homebrew and full PS2 backward compatibility is now a real posibility, and that "he feels like he has found a new source of power, however he does not know how to wield that power". That is a given really, until such a powerful system is given to an open community nobody knows what it is really capable of, take Folding@Home for instance, only one thing beats it and that is GPU processing which funnily enough people... the PS3 could also do if somebody modified the application to use both the Cell Processor and RSX Chip in tandem. I suppose at that point we will see stupid amounts of number crunching being done which even the Universities are restricted from doing.

Homebrew is also likely to open up avenues to massive repositories of music, picture and video codecs, so we can bet somebody will get MKV on the system and don't suprised by what else could be possible. A port for everyday applications perhaps such as email managers like Mozilla's Thunderbird or simply a homebrew version of such software that will use much less memory.

Either way would you risk hacking your PS3?

I wouldn't to be honest. Mainly because if Sony are smart they would get IBM in on the fix because Cell is now compromised and security is the big selling point in the business world, Sony would likely start implementing a lot more features such as the video and music codecs and Sony have already stated several months ago they were opening up the PS3 to other developers like Google to create there own software... and let's be honest, I would feel alot safer knowing I am installing software that has been fully vetted before installing it.

Oh, and there is that small point about the PS3 possibly being blocked from PSN via the PS3's MAC Address which I am afraid to say... not even Mr. Hotz himself could workaround even if he spent 5 years instead of the 5 weeks he did to break the PS3 gubbings and code.

So what about you?

[TheOrion]

I see no real benefits to hacking my ps3, it handles all my media, it plays my older games and my ps3 games, what more could I want?

Also I would have to agree, I just wouldnt trust any homebrew apps for a hacked ps3, thats just the world we live in.

[Farscape247]

it costs about £100 for 25 blue ray blank discs, then you need a recorder, then you need the software to be able to copy the games as they will be protected then you will need to chip the ps3, all in all not worth it and i for one would report anybody bragging they have a hacked ps3, it aint worth it, it will ruin gaming, cheating will be rampant.

sony will find a way to block this anyways, like the hacker said it was 95% software ans 5% hardware hacked, software can be patched and hardware can be scanned for alterations and banned accordingly.

[whereismax123]

of course they could get round . man built it , so man can undo it . being able to get system access and control is one thing, but developing and understanding how to code programs is still a minefield. plus getting round the digitial signature takes some work . if a chip is made then someone will need to create a new bios. which is another job to figure out . the ps3 does step back somewhat more from being a regualar pc in a small box . which is what most of the consoles have allways been .but there are 1000s and 1000s of talented people all with differnt areas of skills which will be able to get thier hands on the machine (if the guy is being speaking truth). its now up to other people to figure out the rest

[N3O_BACK]

i wouldn't for sure look aat the people hacked their ps3 they can't go online they can't have fun....
i mean when u pay moeny and buy a PS3 game and take it in your hand u fell something someyhing good something u will never feel unles u try it

[mattkan]

No. Whats the point. The only console that ever stood up to the hacking test was the ps1. And that was many moons ago. I think Mr Holtz has not experience the full wrath of what hacking it could do to the ps3. It could kill it after a month.

[Albafree]

Would not risk it as i payed to much money for the ps3 in the first place and if this story is true, there will be some people who will do it but then they will get the ps3 banned which will make this site go wild with posts saying that they did not do anything wrong it was their dog.

[dwad69]

No the PS3 does everything I want so i dont see a need to hack it

[Danlisa]

There are certain things that Homebrew could add to the PS3, for example universal video/screen capture, a PDF reader (seriously how hard is it to add this ).....etc.

However, I do not agree with the pirating of games.  Look at the PSP, CFW nearly killed off all studio/dev support for games.  I don't want to see that happen to the PS3.

Besides, FW updates will be quick to 'patch' out any/all security exploits, just like the PSP OFW.  Also, I don't want to loose access from the PSN network.

Umm, so my answer is No, basically because there's no point.

[frodouk]

For homebrew, yes. Everything else, no.