Following the team that tore apart the PlayStation 3's few remaining mod defences this weekend, hackers have released the first custom PS3 firmware.
It's something that's been made possible thanks to hacker George 'Geohot' Hotz's decrypting of the PlayStation 3's "root key", which basically leaves Sony's system wide open against the running of unauthorised code.
These new tools from KaKaRoTo, allowing users to create their own firmware using Linux and a bit of coding knowledge, won't lead to anything too dodgy just yet. KaKaRoTo says "this custom firmware is really meant for future homebrew installation", and "will not allow piracy."
The exposure of the PlayStation 3's root key itself, however, is threatening to Sony as far piracy is concerned.
A PS3 Jailbreak was indeed released late last year and allowed for the running of pirate games, but it was restricted in its access to the console's inner working limiting its uses.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/ar ... ?id=282117Sony did well to last this long really. It's also been suggested in some forums that removing 'Other OS' spurred a few people on...
