Mr. "Make it blackra1n" geohot successfully hacks PS3

By on Jan 26, 2010 at 10:09 AM
General January 26, 2010

Geohot George Hotz

Everyone’s favorite iPhone outlaw, George Hotz (better know as geohot), has been at work mastering another piece of hardware: the PlayStation 3. And so far, Geohot has had quite a bit of success. On his blog, Hotz writes, “I have read/write access to the entire system memory, and HV level access to the processor. In other words, I have hacked the PS3. The rest is just software. And reversing. I have a lot of reversing ahead of me.” Now, Geohot is adamant that the hacking is for scientific purposes only, and he is not trying to provide a vector for software piracy; the ultimate goal would be to run home-made code or other operating system software such as Linux on the PS3. Although against piracy, Geohot is looking to post the decryption keys used by Sony so others can assist him in his scientific endeavor. Geohot’s blog is very interesting and, at times, deeply technical. We’ve got a few links queued up for your reading pleasure.

[Via PCWorld]

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  • James

    Just awesome news, never really heard of this guy before, defiantly a talented individual!

    http://www.newdgamez.com/#ps3

  • Giorgio

    Nice pic…. hahaha.

    • Giorgio

      Props to him for his achievements though.

  • http://www.torrentavi.com Hoss

    Great pic I think you should run a contest on here and get Geo a hot date. Must be some BGR ladies out there willing to mate with him.

    • ~phel

      Maybe Kelly Hodgkins?

  • mi_canuck

    quasimodo!!!

  • BlackBerry Guy

    Read his Tweets: http://twitter.com/geohot

    Not only does he look like a freak out of Lord of The Rings- but he’s a prick, too.

    • mi_canuck

      +1

      he’s fucking hideous! and that I could overlook if he actually was a nice guy… but he’s an attention whore – no TRUE hacker would be in the public spotlight like he is wanting to be…

  • Pneumatic

    Wow. Geohot is definitely flying his Nerd Banner high.

    That’s what every ‘internet tough-guy’ looks like in my mind when I read their posts on forums.

    • BlackBerry Guy

      LOL so true.

    • WinMo guy

      That guy looks like such a douche. Probably stole lunch money from him in high school.

      • TomTpm

        maybe if he applied his talents he could actually contribute to society…

      • Ar-Kar

        He is contributing. It takes a lot of gut for anybody to dedicate his hard work for free.

  • Att@cinci

    How about the untethered JB for a damned week 41+ 3Gs Frodo?

  • http://tehchad.com Chad

    This makes me happy. I know (and don’t ask) Sony security is light years beyond the US dept of defense. So this will only push that further and harder. And, honestly, it makes me want to invest in them. Security is just going to get better and I like it!

  • Howard Stern

    Constipated? Happy ? Sad ? Mad ? Excited ? Wtf is that face ?

    • ~phel

      Maybe its “my upper lip smells funny” face?

  • pron starr

    Finally,

    Now I’ll go buy a PS3…

    And just watch the sales for the PS3 this year, boy are they going to be high.

    • ~Phel

      yea, cuz main stream america wants to get involved with all of this…more like pawn shop sales will go up.

  • Diabl0

    Make the hacking xbox 360 like this one and we’re all solved! Hopefully monkey sec will run on the modded xbox 360 like this one. Pretty sick (as in good) http://bit.ly/xbox360-exdtreme-modification-for-xtreme-players

  • iPhone User

    I guess this is why he never got around to an untethered JB for the 3Gs….

  • http://edopeno.com Ed Penano

    WTH!?! Someone hire that guy!

  • PHug

    Sweet!
    I can’t wait till his work is done so I can get a PS3…

  • 7ASOON

    Now we’re gona get another security update as long as these people keep hacking -______________-

  • Timsims all day

    OOOOHH ! my nigga ! 360 all day

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