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  • UPDATE1: KaKaRoTo (KaKaRoToKs) 3.73 expoit leaked?

    Recent news via Twitter suggests that KaKaRoTo's firmware 3.73 exploit has been leaked. No real proof of any leak and no files have been confirmed except a few rants by the PS3 developer via Twitter. Earlier he had suggested that the leaker could have been Mathieulh but recent tweets indicate it was NOT him. Lets hope this can be contained since it "can cost a lot to the scene".


    For now it seems the leak could be within the developer circle and lets hope it remains that way.

    Seems to be contained...

    Source: KaKaRoToKS - Twitter

    This is still considered drama although I don't think KaKaRoTo would make such things up just to cause a stir. NO BASHING! I bring this to you for informative reasons.

    UPDATE:
    Ok, so I dug and figured out what happened... GOOD NEWS! There was no leak! Although you never really know, but I'm more and more convinced that it wasn't a leak.
    So first of all, thank you to all who gave their support and the twitter flood was extreme. I am really happy to see that many concerned users in the scene, with a very few exceptions, I noticed that most people were disgusted and unhappy with the leak, someone summed it up pretty nicely "While I should be happy that it's leaked, I'm not, I'm disgusted, I don't even want to use it now". So thank you, with your support, you have given me joy and the confidence that this scene has a lot more voices than the few angry haters.

    That being said, here's an explanation of what happened.
    Someone came to talk to me on IRC asking "Is this how you did ? " and he gave some explanation.. which was true. At that point, it could be either coincidence or a leak, but what made me believe in a leak is that he said something (which I can't really tell what it is) that was very unique and special and weird and you wouldn't expect it (even if you found the same 'exploit'), and that little detail was specific to my jailbreak. Unfortunately, the guy went offline before I could reply to him, so all I could see was that it was a leak.

    After going around, only 6 people actually knew of the jailbreak's method, and I spoke to all of them and I trust them all and I'm sure none of them spoke about it with anyone. It turns out, the person who approached me asking "is this how you did : .... " had not received any information from anyone. When I finally caught him online and asked him where he got that information, I realized that it was simply someone who was clever enough to figure it out.
    As for that one detail that was quite unique to my jailbreak, it turns out it was miscommunication.. the guy meant something completely different from what I understood, and yes, I guess I was just being paranoid and I interpreted it in one way. But when he explained what he meant by it, it made sense... now that I read his message again, I see exactly what he meant, but since I couldn't understand it first, the only way I could interpret it was to understand it as being that detail specific to my method. Life is hard when one word/sentence can be interpreted in multiple valid ways...
    So anyways, that's how it is, it looks like nothing was leaked, so everyone's happy now. But this was a wake up call actually, it just reinforced that I should be even more cautious and avoid talking about it to anyone until it's ready.

    On that note, progress was made even though I'm on vacation, and it's going well, I won't say anything else

    Thank you,
    KaKaRoTo
    Source: KaKaRoToKS - Twitter

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    Comments 49 Comments
    1. techknott's Avatar
      techknott -
      Quote Originally Posted by falc0n View Post
      well dont break a leg on your way out of the door. the scene dosnt need whiney moany little potty mouth n00bs like you.
      Ouch... You just keep swallowing whatever the "devs" squirt at you sunshine, you never know, maybe they WILL throw you a bone one day. I was merely stating a fact, also, don't be fooled by my post count. I'm no n00b asshole.
    1. kbf's Avatar
      kbf -
      >trying to censor the f word

      we can still see it you know. Also kakaratos picture annoys the hell out of me for some reason.
    1. satanrules666's Avatar
      satanrules666 -
      They should rename this site playstation drama scene and even have a series on TV.

      Lately all I ever see here is drama someone fighting someone over something no wonder hardly any progress gets made and sony is always a million steps ahead.

      Hope version 4 doesnt have new keys or security patches.

      My last note to KaKaRoTo is thank you for continueing your efforts your the only dev I have hope in now used to be Math but seems he doesnt care anymore.

      Main person i still miss is Graf he was the man.
    1. BahumatLord's Avatar
      BahumatLord -
      Quote Originally Posted by satanrules666 View Post
      They should rename this site playstation drama scene and even have a series on TV.

      Lately all I ever see here is drama someone fighting someone over something no wonder hardly any progress gets made and sony is always a million steps ahead.

      Hope version 4 doesnt have new keys or security patches.

      My last note to KaKaRoTo is thank you for continueing your efforts your the only dev I have hope in now used to be Math but seems he doesnt care anymore.

      Main person i still miss is Graf he was the man.
      I hate to admit it, but I'd probably watch that show. We can call it PS3 PwNeD and the devs would have to compete and one up each other and at the end of the season we could call in our votes to boot off the ones that are all talk and no show. (not KaKaRoTo...... but they know who they are)
    1. pito ho's Avatar
      pito ho -
      I don't believe the CFW 3.73 was leaked by KaKa or the ****er MAth.
      Actually the Firmware 4.0 is leaked by SONY. Enjoy it Mathieu(SUCKER)
    1. ahou's Avatar
      ahou -
      Quote Originally Posted by pito ho View Post
      I don't believe the CFW 3.73 was leaked
      Well obviously, because there is no 3.73 cfw.
    1. PRiME's Avatar
      PRiME -
      I was under the impression that this was NEVER going to be released and was a in house private CFW for these elite jailbreakers only, but he says now its leaked early? or something so I guess there was intention to release it once a new update (4.0) came out and it could be verified the security was breakable. But really at the end of the day if 4.0cfw came out the next day 4.1 will come.. and so on.. Sony is pretty on to it these days, I feel sorry for customers who must update their console system so regularly, there is a risk each time and Sony state it.
    1. ChillyCat's Avatar
      ChillyCat -
      Quote Originally Posted by techknott View Post
      Ouch... WILL throw you a bone one day. .


      I'll show you a bone..........the same one I introduced to your Mother
    1. ahou's Avatar
      ahou -
      Quote Originally Posted by PRiME View Post
      I was under the impression that this was NEVER going to be released and was a in house private CFW for these elite jailbreakers only, but he says now its leaked early? or something so I guess there was intention to release it once a new update (4.0) came out and it could be verified the security was breakable. But really at the end of the day if 4.0cfw came out the next day 4.1 will come.. and so on.. Sony is pretty on to it these days, I feel sorry for customers who must update their console system so regularly, there is a risk each time and Sony state it.
      If you bothered to read anything about it, you would know that not only is that not the case, but it is not a cfw. All that has been found is a method to install unsigned .pkgs on OFW. There is no cfw, and since there is no way to actually run those unsigned .pkgs, there is, as of yet, no point to it for the end users.