How a USB key defeated security on the Sony PlayStation 3 | MVG

The Story of how a simple USB device defeated Security on the Sony PlayStation 3 and how it works

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[Polo]

Sony traded a potential flaw for a very real one

[alfredopastore]

moral of the story: do NOT take away features from people who bought your console, or they'll bring it back themself, by any means

[rjswonson]

That's gotta sting. Loses millions by panic removing a complicated poweruser feature like OtherOS, but gets thrwarted by a USB stick.

[tchitchouan]

Reverse engineering a hacking device just to make your own cheaper hacked version to hack an allegedly unbackable console is just so meta.

[MrMario]

I didn't pay attention to the release of this, but I do remember seeing quite a bit about flashing your own USB device to do the same thing! Awesome breakdown of how this all worked.

[ebridgewater]

1. That awesome intro music
2. The word "Jig" being used many times
3. The word "payload" being used many times
= one damn fine video.
4. USB flash drive*

[kentuckycryptid]

Modded my PS3 the other day. It is an absolute beast when it comes to homebrew.

[Blink.MDev]

OtherOS was removed because of the exploit we found. Once gone we still had other minimal exploits which allowed us to bypass Starbuck security checks. Thus allowing us to essentially run code to open other parts, and eventually creating home brew. Dave was awesome with his multiman home brew and helping us to achieve these goals. Once this was done it was time to finally get back to bringing OtherOS into cfws, which took about 6 months from start to finish. Because of the update Sony released to remove (it never was actually removed but just left there) the feature, we had to think of another way to create a bootable HD image which the system itself could use as a virtual drive for OtherOS. Sony’s official response to the community was that it’s just not possible to keep OtherOS because of security problems. This is not true, they didn’t feel like rewriting everything is all. OtherOS was still in the newer official firmwares but it was broken and not fixable because it completely closed the boot flags needed. This was the reason they dropped it, the exploit between ofw and booting OtherOS was patched. Sony was lazy and didn’t feel like doing the work and decided to patch the part which OtherOS needed. This was the only reason it took 6 months for us to bring it back under a cfw, we needed a newer found exploit to be finished before even trying to create a boot strap for OtherOS. I was personally responsible working with 2 other people to create the new way of reading OtherOS file systems. And let me tell ya, it wasn’t easy. I remember the moment we successfully booted into ppc Linux distro yellow dog. We couldn’t wait to tell everyone. We released the image I believe on 3 major dev sites and we didn’t get one single comment or thank you for about two weeks, in fact people were more like, ok so why did you feel the need to bring OtherOS back? Big deal. But to us developers, having to create new code, cfw, and hd images to boot an original feature that was still locked away in the back of new updates was a huge accomplishment for us. Don’t even get me started on how we prevented breakage due to updates, that took another two months to accomplish

[EposVox]

Firmware 3.55 T_T my nightmare.
Loaded up the jailbreak app on my TI-84+ (still on there today) at school. Came home from school, stoked to jailbreak, and my PS3 had managed to auto-update while I was gone. I was gutted. No way to soft-mod it again for 7 more years.

[NeonTheon]

Who's still mad about Sony's removal of 'Other OS' functionality? I used the PS3 for a couple/few years as my only 'PC' and I'll never forget how fast the thing rendered when editing video, despite not having full access to all the hardware. IIRC it was much faster than the mac mini I was using for work and about as quick as my father's mac pro. Cell broadband engine was a beast for its time!

[gamingdude]

Hackers: We want to hack the PS3, but it’s hard and there is almost no point because of Other OS.
Sony: Removes Other OS
Hackers: *COWABUNGA IT IS!*

[johnnyfkingsilverhand]

And now, even the super-slim can be modded.
I love these guys. To me they’ve helped kept these older gens alive. My wii just sat collecting dust for years since 2011 until I learned about soft modding last year.

[forzenny]

In a nutshell: Never call your console unhackable.

[SlyHikari]

“Removing Other OS” “April 1st”
Yup, I can definitely see why ppl were mad.

[gensteps]

can we talk about how genius this trick is? the guy who figured this out, man respect to him/her for coming up with that fake 6 usb hub, that was really cool and interesting to see you breakdown and explain.

[Etheod]

I had no idea at the time what I was doing, but back in college I was able to pull off this exploit following a guide showing how to do it on a TI 84 calculator. Everyone in the dorm thought I was some kind of technical genius LOL

[JosephDavies]

It should be illegal to remotely remove an _advertised feature_ from a consumer product after it has been purchased without the owner's consent.
Using a "technically optional" firmware update, without which the device becomes unusable for its _other_ advertised features, should not be a viable loophole to this law.

[bdh]

As a longtime console gamer who has never even attempted to hack a system, I find these videos very entertaining and informative. Keep up the good work!

[Azaism]

7:00 Pirates pirating pirates. Doesn't get any more internet than that.

[lain]

Sony will be forever known as the company that removed a key feature that led to people wanting to hack it back in.