Hello Hypervisor - I'm Geohot

**garyopa** · 01-15-2010,10:13 AM

NEWS FLASH

With big bold claims that he has DONE IT!
What noone else has done so, up to this point!
HACK THE PS3!
Full access to the Hypervisor, complete dumps have been made by him.
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It all started a few days ago when GeoHot (aka George Hotz), which did some amazing iPhone hacking in the past, started playing around with the PS3 late last year, after many trials and errors, and dead-ends, he finally built a amazing (picture-wise below) piece of hardware to try to override the start-up of the PS3 hypervisor via the currently unlocked SPI interface.

You can view the major increase in comments over at his blog (http://geohotps3.blogspot.com)!

Thanks to modrobert over at EurAsia, for bringing the original SPI progress news to my attention.

UPDATE: This just in! --- "We are investigating the report and will clarify the situation once we have more information," said the statement issued by Sony when contacted by "Inc Gamers" regarding Geohot's hack!

**Gradius** · 01-16-2010,08:42 PM

Yeah, MMIO don't wanna works with SPI.

**EJM** · 01-22-2010,07:37 PM

The latest update to his blog says that he did it. Pretty cool that someone finally figured it out.

**Peppers** · 01-22-2010,08:49 PM

cool, I guess I got me a ps3 just in time.

**xiaNaix** · 01-22-2010,09:22 PM

Don't expect a public release of any information.

**Peppers** · 01-22-2010,09:34 PM

yeah i know....

**JNABK** · 01-22-2010,09:55 PM

Im sure the world will wait a little longer for it. Heres his latest blog report for those who havent seen it:

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, as I now have dumps of LV0 and LV1.

3 years, 2 months, 11 days...thats a pretty secure system

Took 5 weeks, 3 in Boston, 2 here, very simple hardware cleverly applied, and some not so simple software.

Shout out to George Kharrat from iPhoneMod Brasil for giving me this PS3 a year and a half ago to hack. Sorry it took me so long

As far as the exploit goes, I'm not revealing it yet. The theory isn't really patchable, but they can make implementations much harder. Also, for obvious reasons I can't post dumps. I'm hoping to find the decryption keys and post them, but they may be embedded in hardware. Hopefully keys are setup like the iPhone's KBAG.

A lot more to come...

**ps2stuff** · 01-22-2010,10:09 PM

OMG the crazy son of a bitch actually did it he's hacked it.... wow bring on full access hopefully its possible

**Peppers** · 01-22-2010,10:17 PM

To be fair what he did was gain read/wright access, nothing is hacked at this time, although good work and interesting to read.

edit: misread he dose apperintly have full access to the processor.

**garyopa** · 01-22-2010,10:57 PM

Original thread regarding the Geohot's SPI playing, has been updated.

Everyone can stop PM'ing me. -- It is now front page news here.

Of course it is front-page news everywhere, going to watch 11pm news,

And see if they mention it there, as it already hit some online newspapers!

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