The Road Ahead. Dead End Or Roadblock..? (from a Tweet by RMS)

[ModIT]

Well as long as you can decrypt them (what we can), they can be patched in any way we want - there is no way to stop us from playing newer games on 3.55 or 3.41..i dont know, if it is even possible to implent something like ingame checks on the ps3 (if it would be that easy, sony would have implented such checks in gt5), but even if it is possible, they can be removed.

[alexx508]

so we can modify eboots for upcomming games?

[joaquin1119]

To be honest here, I think our Dev's really shouldn't work on CFW 3.56. The reason I'm saying this because sony is working on OFW 3.60 but we don't know when they going to release it.. Plus with all this court going on, I think its best for our Dev's too stay low for now.. I would like to see CFW 3.60 but who know when Sony going to release that..

[Shadow Pyro]

3.55 and the keys are the source to open the PS3.

Basically, we have gotten inside the vault and now we know the whole layout and the system but SONY just changed the front door keys and added a security dog.

There is no point to make a custom 3.56CFW because nothing has been added. There are reports that 3.60 is going to add some crappy lame PSN features. I bet we can spoof the PS3 into thinking it has the newest firmware pretty much how hackers have done in the Wii! The other problem is when SONY start making 3.56OFW PS3 but there are some many PS3 in the after market that we would just have to go to eBay to buy new PS3s!

The real problem is that Geohot got this TRO and his equipment is getting impounded by those SONY dick lawyers. Now if GeoHot was smart, which I hope he is, those nice computer equipment and code are under a nice TrueCrypt encryption that would make Fort Knox jealous. That would send a nice **** you up the arse to those dumbass lawyers that SONY hired, and because the law can work both ways, now all that GeoHot has to do when they ask for a password is to say I plead the FIF

SONY has the money to take this for years but we just have to work in the shadows until they drop it because those dickwads have no case!
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CzocBkrWpA]YouTube - Chappelle I plead the Fif[/ame]

[TJ31]

Nice read, thanks.
The only thing that worries me a little, pretty damn soon all new PS3s in stores will have FW 3.56 and higher. Last bundle with 3.50 ( ? ) was a GT5 one, so i'm sure that the next batch will have 3.56.
Not big deal for some of us, who have 2 (or more ) PS3s, but all people who still won't have their PS3 by that time or people who'll get YLOD on their only PS3 are pretty much screwed.
I would love to see a software or maybe even hardware downgrader in some future.

[ModIT]

Nice read, thanks.
The only thing that worries me a little, pretty damn soon all new PS3s in stores will have FW 3.56 and higher. Last bundle with 3.50 ( ? ) was a GT5 one, so i'm sure that the next batch will have 3.56.
Not big deal for some of us, who have 2 (or more ) PS3s, but all people who still won't have their PS3 by that time or people who'll get YLOD on their only PS3 are pretty much screwed.
I would love to see a software or maybe even hardware downgrader in some future.

I guess it will be summer, before we seen FW 3.56 store ps3s...

For these ps3 maybe we will need a NOR flasher...but its not always as easy, as it was in the beginning for the ps3 with jb dongle and now cfw..

[mallinersha]

It's definitely no longer possible to install CFW once you install 3.56 OFW, but I wouldn't think that 3.56 CFW in general would be impossible forever.

Holy shit....

[[C*]]

The only thing I'm worried about is newer games.

Also just in case anyone starts to (or already has) called out fail0verflow on their "unpatchable" promise, make note that they never said it was software unpatchable. Only hardware. So it is still possible to hardware downgrade 3.56 PS3s and any future firmware these PS3s are on. However of course once new hardware revisions come out, they won't be vulnerable.

[Ben Jeremy]

The only thing I'm worried about is newer games.

Also just in case anyone starts to (or already has) called out fail0verflow on their "unpatchable" promise, make note that they never said it was software unpatchable. Only hardware. So it is still possible to hardware downgrade 3.56 PS3s and any future firmware these PS3s are on. However of course once new hardware revisions come out, they won't be vulnerable.

Actually, that's wrong. You can't downgrade using a NAND or NOR programmer. Sony did some fiddling with the Cell's EEPROM to throw in hashes and prevent the use of an external flasher. Some people have already tried this, even trying the obvious: flashing a direct backup of the system they attempted to downgrade. No luck.

In short, Sony closed that door a long time ago.

fail0verflow claimed we had all the keys available to us to take complete control of the system. Is it wrong to call them out on it? I'm not bitching at them - I just expect some action. This is EXACTLY the wrong time to back off and say "we did our part". If for no other reason, they need to step up and release a Geohot-style 3.56 CFW that patches the keys (and allows homebrew once again), just to demonstrate they were right. Anything less borders on "Epic Fail"

[iamgod]

everyone is acting like its over. people said the xbox slims would never get hacked and omg yes they have and the stuff is getting released very very soon. i think everyone just needs to take a chill pill and enjoy what theyv got. Be patient STOP WHINING lol