Encyclopedia Dramatica:Article of the Nao/May 10, 2011

Newsflash: The Playstation 3 has NO GAEMS... but you can play them for free. A haxor by the name of George Hotz (geohot) discovered that if you poke a memory wire and map a bunch of memory at the same time, presto you own your ps3. This attack was complicated and it required an expensive chip to poke the memory wire with and half the time it just crashed the ps3 but it still created copious amounts of butthurt at Sony and they decided that the final solution was to neuter ps3's lunix functionality. At this point, other people got involved because Sony has committed the one mortal sin, they had taken Linux away from basement dwellers.

The first development was the ps-jailbreak which was open sourced as the ps-groove dongle. It gave the user ops on the ps3 by smashing a buffer and injecting some code. This gave the user lots of power but they still didn't actually own the ps3 like geohot did but even though the hipervisor was still in tact on the ps3 it didn't care if the games the user played were pirated. So not by plugging in a dongle anyone could just play backups.

This was still not enough because although it allowed anyone to download their ps3 games off The Pirate Bay it didn't allow Basement Dwellers to play their favorite game: Linux. This was when some Germans called team FailOverflow started looking into the ps3 security system. They found 3 problems with the ps3. Really big certificate revocation lists would overflow a buffer in the super secret isolated security processor and allow them to get decryption keys, the ps3 runs firmware code before determining if that code is valid so with a mod chip you could feed it anything you want, and the funniest: Every ps3 game code was signed using the same random number...

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