Hackers have jailbroken Sony's PlayStation 5, opening the door to further hacks

[WYP]

Will this jailbreak lead to larger hacks?



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[g0ggles1994]

Surprised it took this long.

 

[dazbobaby]

And now the PS5 starts to look good.

 

[Dr.Puschkin]

Well good luck finding a console with outdated firmware from October 2021.

 

[Anon]

You can just flash it with older firmware can't you?

 

[NeverBackDown]

They pretty much force you to update so this isn't overly a big deal for most people... Currently

 

[stompysan]

Nifty, but no execute permissions makes it effectively useless for most people. From discussions, it seems they will need a lot for execute, and will need to break hypervisor for fPKGs. For those in the know, there was a pretty interesting development today involving an update that was pushed twice by Sony. Both were the same version numbers, but had different MD5s. The big shock was that Plutoo of Switch exploitation fame is able to determine what actually changed, which means they are able to fully decrypt and possibly decompile firmware. That's big.

 

[Warchild]

Nifty, but no execute permissions makes it effectively useless for most people. From discussions, it seems they will need a lot for execute, and will need to break hypervisor for fPKGs. For those in the know, there was a pretty interesting development today involving an update that was pushed twice by Sony. Both were the same version numbers, but had different MD5s. The big shock was that Plutoo of Switch exploitation fame is able to determine what actually changed, which means they are able to fully decrypt and possibly decompile firmware. That's big.

It does make me wonder if we will return to the days of module attachments to the mainboards in consoles effectively jailbreaking them.

I remember purchasing that module for my playstation 2 and soldering it on, allowing me to play copied titles and such. Of course technology was simpler back then, but the guys deep diving into the current tech know their stuff, so im sure this is a stepping stone to much more.