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[ps3] Hacker claims to jailbreak the PS3

This news has been out for awhile actually..

And what he did was open up the Linux OS (not the ps3s OS) to the ps3s hardware..but its not stable and he said he had no plans of making it to where you can use backups (pirated games) so only thing he has done to a degree is make the ps3 system into a Linux computer.

As far as a ps3 slim doing this..I don't think you can, as Sony locked out the Linux install, so you can't even load Linux on the slim.
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As I understood the article, it reopens the possibility of using Linux even on the PS3 slim. This news has been out for a while? I never heard of a jailbroke ps3, here's another news outlet's excerpt (all dated last month):

Hotz wrote on his blog, “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. I’ve also dumped the NAND without removing it or a modchip.” He also commented, “3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system”.

AFAIK, there's nothing here that would allow you to run Linux on a Slim. It's not that kind of hack. This is the kind of hack that might or might not lead to other hacks. It could be a complete dead end, who knows. The only thing it gets you is full access to memory in Linux on a fat PS3. It's up to other hackers to dumb that memory and look for other exploits.

And FWIW, this happened about 2-3 weeks ago. Not too long ago.
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