(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Needless to say most of you know about the supposed "PS3 hack" by GeoHot.



So the PS3 is hacked ? Well that's nothing more than an urban legend.

Altough it's nice to capture all these HV calls and stuff from a plain (not encrypted) lv1 binary, but this will never lead to a hacked PS3.

Let's have a look. The major security architecture on the PS3 is called the "Secure Processing Vault" and is the most important thing regarding "hacking" the PS3.

There is NO WAY for the PPU or even the HV to gain access to the SPU, which is an application running inside of an isolated SPU.

Well you can kick out the isolated SPU, like geohot mentioned, but this gives you nothing, as ALL the encryption and execution of applications (HDD encryption, app encryption, decryption, executing, signature checking, root key extraction) happens inside the isolated SPU.

To run homebrew on the PS3 you would have to reassemble the whole functionality from the SPU inside a binary running on the PPU. For this you will need the root key.

The root key is stored in hardware (not even close to the things on the iPhone). The root key cannot be extracted by any software or hardware means and is essential to ALL encryption/decryption, executing and checking routines.

The only way to get the root key is inside of an isolated SPU, as it is kick-starting the hardware encryption facility. There is no other way to do that !

Let's just assume that geohot or some other guys are able to break into the local store of the isolated SPE. There they will just find some encrypted binaries.

The key for decryption is encrypted by the root key ! You won't get anywhere without the root key.

Let's assume that someone managed to do all those stuff from the isolated SPU on the PPU and creates a CFW.

There is still a secure booting environment. The first module loaded/bootet is integrity checked by the hardware crypto facility utilizing the root key. So you have also to address this booting stuff. Again, no root key, no booting.

So there's always runtime patching you might ask ? Not possible on the PS3 because the hardware crypto facility is able to check the signatures whenever it wants to.

And which part is responsible for this ? Exactly, the isolated SPU. So if you kick out the isolated SPU the system will not boot/run anymore.

The PS3 is neither an PSP nor an iPhone. It's the most secure system architecture of this time !

So it will be a very very very very long time until it is actually hacked!

Which means, the ps3 will be hacked... thats all there is to it.
I'ts just a matter of when. However, Sony is bound to come up with an endless amount of new security measures to prvent piracy... then it'll be another unending war like with the psp. games will only be able to run on FW-XX.X at which point CFW XX.X will be released and so on.
It's inevitable.

Geohot hasn't prooved anything he just said he hacked it and showed a picture of an opened ps3 lmao he did'nt show his exploit.

actually having read/write access to the hypervisor is a hack. so he did hack it?

Stop copying crap from other sites
adihash basically dosent know what he is talking about he just likes to think he does.
Have any of you even visited GeoHots blog?

Do any of you know the definition of a hack?
Belive me its hacked just need devs or geohot to get some serious reversing done .
if u can run unsigned code on the ps3 its hacked.
just give the man some praise

i duno what rumours uve herd, but the fact is, the guy(i dunno who) has decrypted the codes and has found the code that sony uses for the firmware

its very hard to explain coz i dont no the correct words but i can tell u tho . . .

u no like the psp got hacked ?

the original hakers worked for sony and robbed the decrypting codes

then sony super locked the codes away in side many many codes so its very hard to rob unless sombody did some mission imposible shit on there buildings LOL

but the ps3 is like the psp, just 10x harder to crack

the guy decrypted the code since the ps3 came out, 5 years back :O

if u think it will take very loing time for it to be fully hacked well thats your opinion

but i think haks will come out by end of next year deof, end of this year if were lucky

but i doubt the guy will release it . . . .

dont bother flaming me as i think your like those reetards who thbought there was a MP4 on cod5 :S

and i kept telling them there wouldnt . . . .

thanks orange 12

Nothing is "unhackable".

you dont say...

fail indeed...people using others posts to make them look smart is a fail attempt...i bet he doesnt even understand a drop of the things he pasted...and everything can be hacked..nothing is unhackable not even a 1028 bit encryption(which is said to be the best encryption u can have)...FAIl

lol Geohot has the root key Can you not read?