As mentioned this morning, it would appear that firmware 3.60’s big talking point – cloud based game saving – is just the cherry on top of what appears to be the real driving force behind Sony’s intentions with its latest update. The PS3 is now secure again. At least, that’s according to Youness Alaoui, KaKaRoToKS on Twitter, and the author of PSFreedom, a custom firmware for the PS3. Commenting on the security holes Sony appear to have now plugged, Alaoui states:
Wow, in 3.60, Sony removed all the loaders, no more isoldr/lv1ldr/lv2ldr/appldr.. but they added lv0.2! Seems they found a way to secure ps3.
He goes on to deride Sony’s original security set up, stating:
Their previous errors were epic fails, it doesn’t mean they can’t do an epic save either.. they seem to have fixed all the issues they had. For now, it looks to me (at first glance) that the ps3 has been resecured, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be broken again from scratch..
The modder ends with the news that he has no interest in poking holes in Sony’s new software for more exploits. He claims:
I don’t really care about breaking the PS3, I’m fine with what we have so far. I will NOT work on it!! 3.55 was great, people that love homebrew (including me) will stay there, everyone else will update, sounds like a fair balance.
You know what we’re going to say next. TheSixthAxis does not condone invalidating your warranty by sticking toast or anyone’s custom firmware in your PS3. You also won’t be able to send your saves into the cloud. And that’s just awesome, man.
Source: Twitter
BIGAL-1992
Good job sony.
3shirts
Means a lot more to hear it from an actual modder as well.
I’m sure people are working on cracking it but given how long the first hack took, we should be secure for a while
asoccer
At least they fixed it. There goes my chances of Pokemon Black on my White PS3 :(
Sympozium
Its better on the handheld, why play it on a console!?
Foxhound_Solid
Grrreeeeeeeaaaat!
Smallville2106
This is great news. Hope he’s not lying so Sony relax on the security front.
Awayze
I give it less than a month before it’s hacked again.
TSBonyman
Delighted to hear it!
jayjay119
‘I don’t really care about breaking the PS3, I’m fine with what we have so far. I will NOT work on it!! ‘
Yeah especially after seeing what happened to GEOHOT, that really was a way of Sony saying: ‘ok, you got us, but we got you, we’ll fix it though, now don’t do it again!’
Smallville2106
lol yeah I agree with that
baggyg
I once stuck toast in my PS3, but it didn’t work as that particular part was owned by LG
Kovacs
Were you sued by LG? They own the patent on toast, you know.
cc_star
Anyone else think they’ll be update to this story within the next 24hrs?
gaffers101
You bet there will.
I’m sure somone’s already working on cracking the new security as we speak – shame they can’t put their efforts to something more constructive…….