Hacker gives PS3 a homebrew hello

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Filed under: Hacks and Homebrew, News
It looks like the PS3 has just gotten its own Hello World greeting courtesy of Dragula96, a well-known PSP hacker. According to Dragula96, he recently discovered an exploit in the official 2.20 firmware and was able to put up his own Hello World proof of concept. Currently, he's not sharing how he did it; he's still doing some tests and working on running a simple game like Pong.

The hacker noted that the systems he used for his experiment had no hardware modifications. The exploit was up and running on both 40 and 60 gig retail models -- not test PS3s.

In light of this, we know that anti-hacking/piracy has been a Sony strong suit when it comes to the PS3. We wonder if we'll be seeing more hacks to come, or will the big S put a stop to things and quickly retaliate with a new firmware update.

[Thanks Craig!]
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[Billhouse]

Even if he is a well known PSP hacker I still think this is an April fools joke sadly.

[Mario87]

Yea, I saw this on another site today but just ignored it till more info was available at a later date (not near april fools).

[doughboy]

He may be nifty with a ps3, but his camcorder skills suck ass

[ERNIE 22]

ps3 hax has now confirmed this as fake.

http://www.ps3hax.net/announcement/3...2-20-fake.html

[gungaden]

Its april fools gay.

[Freddy]

Fucking dumb day.

[ffrr]

same shit different year...lol...

[B B Leo]

i just dont think these ones are funny. doing things to people are funny now