Playstation 3 Hacked

January 26, 2010
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Playstation 3 Hacked!

Thats right you read it right. News just in tells me the guy responsable for hacking the iPhone in 2007 at the age of 17 has now turned to the PS3 and he’s done it. George Hotz (cambridge) wrote on his blog that he now has complete read/write access to the Playstation 3 allowing him to make it backwards compatible with PS2 games but he’s still unsure on how to wield his new found power.

It wasnt no easy hack. It took him “3 years, 2 months, 11 days…thats a pretty secure system”  He goes on to say he’s not going to make some easy to use download tool so everyone can jump on the bandwagon. As far as i can see its still in the early stages of infancy and im  sure will be quite a while before we start seeing mod’d PS3′s  all over the place.

Is this the end?

Does this mean PS3′s can me moddified and we can get cheap games meaning you end up with every game that ever comes out but you dont play them as they have no real value and Great games dont get released as no one buys them anymore?

Does this mean Trophies will be able to be hacked meaning all that hard work you’ve done was a waste of time as cheats will use 3rd party programs to get every trophy ever created and even ones that dont exist?

I hope not. As expensive as games are these days you have to remember its big business to the game companies which in turn means they put their all!  into the creation process. If that money isnt there why would they continue. Or will  Sony follow in the footsteps of Microsoft and end up banning over a million gamers from using their Playstation because their PS3 has been mod’d.

I guess we will just have to wait and see how this story unfolds. Watch this space.

RobGroove

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  • Night_Diablo

    First off the ps3 will never be modded or truly “hacked” once you get past security sony knows and just bans you. They no longer ban by IP address for hacking now they ban by MAC address. That means you will need to buy a new ps3 just to be able to play online, but wait thats not all once they have banned you they also take record of your IP so better not be playing that new ps3 on the same IP.

    You will never see the ps3 suffer the same fate as the psp did..

    As for the trophies.. There are already people out there modding save data to get every trophy.. This can be done on almost any game on the ps3 if the save data is able to be copied. A example of this would be MW2 10th prestige mod.. Same type of modding can be done on single player.

    Another example borderlands same thing only people modded “iff ammo” “no clip” things like that.

    However the above examples are not hacks they are mods to savedata nothing more. Has nothing to do with the ps3 itself just devs being lazy when making games.

    There is only one way the system can be hacked without detection and thats with packets. Even then your not really hacking the system but the network.. Few problems with this form of hacking though.. In short its just not practical..

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