The point is that his hack that allow read/write privileges is done using the OtherOS and opening the console.
Contrary to that he claims his CFW will run (or install?) on untouched consoles:
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Contrary to that he claims his CFW will run (or install?) on untouched consoles:
I feel the same way, this is all over the place for me, if he can "patch" the firmware then how deep is he actually into the system. I would say neck deep, but then, if i understand it correct, it´s more of a OS running some basic stuff like Friend lists etc. The more complex stuff is programs that is started from the XMB, like gallery, Vidzone, Home etc...
But it does have access to the Account information, it includes a video player, music player and stuff like that. The important Protection in regards to games seems to be decoupled completely from the XMB, it essentially starts games that then has to run though the build in protection.
But maybe it opens up Region free Blu-Rays since the Blu-Ray player is a part of the firmware.
Maybe Eastman could really get what he wants here, access to features that he can´t live without and noway of playing pirate games
I kinda just want to be able to install strait to my hardrive and play the game from there.Oh and cross game chat would be nice but not a deal breaker.
But as I said in the other thread. Looks like I was right , CFW with no piracy.
Extracting a PUP isn't a huge feat -- there've been apps that do that for years. I'm wondering how they secure it. The fact that I can unpack them on my PC tells me that the PUP itself isn't encrypted. Since you can download and install the firmware from a pendrive if you have no internet connection, I figure they're not getting some checksum over the internet. So is there a checksum in the packed file itself? Or is each pkg file contained therein signed with a public key, and Sony simply believes no one else to be able to generate such files?
That might explain how he did it -- if the security is all in the individual files, then just mixing and matching will guarantee that it'll at least work. Hell, I'm not sure if that's where the system reads it from, but the firmware version is in a plaintext file.
Edit: looks like it stores the hashes right there in the PUP itself, but they use some algorithm people don't know. Has geohots cracked that, or have there been advances there?
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Well, legimate or not, it's all over the news already...
I don't see how bragging about custom firmware could possibly be good for geohot. If he dares to release it he will be sued into oblivion for copyright infringement. Maybe he hasn't heard about Dark Alex and what happened to him.
Err? While many EULA`s prohibit reversing and might be enforceable by law (I never fully understood the legalese regarding EULA`), creating CFW ain't violating any copyright and creators thus cant be attacked because of violating it. Atleast not if they are done in the way of the PSP CFW which are distributed as smallish patches to the OFW - no Sony code is included.
And what happened to Dark Alex? He pushed out CFW`s for years, dont you think he would've been sued out of existence after the first one - his identity is known for long.
You cannot modify and redistribute code you don't own unless explicitly allowed to do so (e.g. GPL, BSD licenses). If he distributed a patch that might or might not be legal, depending on how he does it.
As you mentioned DA used to release his own installer override/patcher which I suspect is what kept him on the legal side. What I read was that he was invited by Sony to stop doing so and eventually did. Had he released a homebrew-only CFW (No ISO/CSO loader) I'm sure Sony wouldn't have cared that much.
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About time this circus ended. Must be cool to be remembered as the guy who killed Linux support on the PS3.
I say good riddance to this idiot, he should do something contructive instead of something that would have caused the collapse of a gaming platform
Sony was going to drop Linux support after Kutaragi was ousted, the slim without Linux was proof of that, security claimed was just an excuse. Shame really, if Kutaragi still at the helm, perhaps Linux and Cell would not be dead on water. I think PS3 would probably be the last Playstation to support Linux too. I doubt PS4 would support Linux.
We'll never know though - who knows some form of Chrome OS might make it onto the device. The primary issue that both caused Linux to be less useful as it could have been, and caused Linux to be removed now, is that the RSX part of the PS3's system wasn't as well protected as the Cell and Game OS had been. If they can solve that in the next design, then they could allow Linux on there and, importantly, allow it full use of the GPU subsystem.
It seems slightly more likely though that the next OS will be more 'Apps' style, like iOS, Android, Chrome OS or whatever, with the whole Apps running on a completely virtualised platform. We'll have to wait and see though.
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