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Sony appears to be fighting a losing battle in preventing users from jailbreaking their PlayStation 3 consoles. In a recent Australian court ruling, a judge made permanent a previous ban on the distribution of the PSJailbreak dongle only to watch the software code behind a similar hack released for free into the wild. Naturally, Sony responded with a minor firmware update blocking these bits of code from working their mojo, but it's an ongoing cat and mouse game at best.
What we find most interesting, however, is how insanely easy it is to jailbreak a PS3. This is Sony's flagship console, after all, yet users have been able to jailbreak the device with everything from a Palm Pre to a calculator.
That's right, we said a calculator. Gizmodo has put together a collection of clips showing various devices cracking the PS3, and one of them includes the above mentioned hack (known as PSGroove) run from a TI-84. Pretty rad, no? Check it out below.
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Mazter Jedi
September 07, 2010 at 1:08pm
So if you decide to try this, does it do any damage to the system? Say, if you run it from a USB stick, can you just remove the stick and boot normally like nothing ever happened?
Ulrich
September 07, 2010 at 8:19am
Sony released a firmware update last night that killed all current jailbreaks. Hopefully the pirate crowd chills for awhile... I'd like for sony to be working on added features... not having to circumvent pirating attempts.
Dant
September 07, 2010 at 9:55am
Don't suppose you've noticed, but this is the first time Sony has aggressively went after hackers/pirates. Not just that but Sony has been taking away features (Linux, and PS2 compatability have both been taken away since launch, oh and don't forget the "accidential" bug from a while back that bricks PS3s with aftermarket hard drives). This is exactly why I've given up on Sony and turned to the PC.
rinkuchal
September 07, 2010 at 8:00am
this is actually ancient news. and, Sony has already issued an update against the Jailbreaks. step your game up, MaximumPC...
