How the PS3 Hypervisor was Hacked and Dumped by GeoHot  215w ago
- A few days ago GeoHot Hacked the PS3 and dumped the
PlayStation 3 hypervisor lv0 and lv1, and has now updated his
blog with a technical writeup here on how it was done written by
Nate Lawson at rdist.root.org.     George's hack compromises the
hypervisor after booting Linux via the "OtherOS" feature. He has
used the exploit to add arbitrary read/write RAM access
functions and dump the hypervisor. Access to lv1 is a necessary
first step in order to mount other attacks against the drive
firmware or games.              Comments 28 Comments - Go to
Forum Thread »  Quick Reply Quick Reply  Rac3rX's Avatar #13 -
Rac3rX - 215w ago I'm interested in seeing where this goes,
homebrew on regular PS3's would be sweet.  Not to mention
getting Linux the ability to use the PS3 hardware accelerators
finally..  PS3 News's Avatar #12 - PS3 News - 215w ago So when
can an average user expect to be able to get their hands on one
of these dumps to look at? That's t