A community around french hacker Mathieulh has provided information and assumptions of the PS Jailbreak’s bowels. Find the original article here and a PDF copy here. Picture is courtesy of PS3News.com… Sniffed Code and Processing As of yesterday they say they successfully managed to clone PS Jailbreak and they will document the exploit on the [...]
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[PS3] Game Over – PS Jailbreak Exploit Is Public Now
August 31st, 2010 
J. Epstein 
Posted in News 
Tags: Backup, French, Harddisc, Harddisk, Homebrew, Mathieulh, modchip, PS Jailbreak, Reverse Engineer 
No Comments »[MacOS] Pace iLok Dongle Compromised
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein A worldwide team of crackers managed to generally attack the Pace iLok dongle security system. An automized unwrapper for protected applications has surfaced on the net. The unwrapper is compatible to MacOS X 10.6 (Slow Neopard) and works for the Intel based part of universal binaries only. The Pace iLok dongle is mainly used by [...]
[News] Quantum Cryptography Compromised
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Nature.com posted an article describing that a hacking team around Vadim Makarov at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim have now cracked two commercial quantum cryptographic systems.Vadim Makarov said Our hack gave 100% knowledge of the key, with zero disturbance to the system (..) The Norwegian team attacked one system by ID [...]
Posted in News Tags: Attack, Circumvent, Compromise, Cryptography, Hacking, Light, Man-In-The-Middle, Quantum, Vadim Makarov No Comments »[PS3] Sony Australia Vs. PS Jailbreak Suppliers
August 31st, 2010 J. Epstein Sony Australia somehow managed to get court orders for a temporary injunction against australian based modchip sellers like OZModChips, ModSupplier and Quantronics. Until today (Aug 31st, 2010) none of the modchip sellers is allowed to sell any PS Jailbreak device they rather have to give up the whole stock that they get until today. Well [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, Game Copy, Hack, Harddisk, Homebrew, modchip, PS Jailbreak, ps3, PSJailbreak No Comments »[E-Biz] Intel To Acquire Infineon
August 30th, 2010 J. Epstein According to Businessweek there are rumors that Intel is about to purchase german chip manufacturer Infineon. Infineon is a former Siemens subsidary that has been spun out of the parent company in 1999. Infineon is the main supplyer of the baseband modem chips of Apple’s iPhone.
[PS3] Hacking the Hackers: PS Jailbreak Reverse Engineered
August 29th, 2010 J. Epstein German Gamefreax claim to have reverse engineered a testing PSJailbreak device. They say this exploit is based on emulating of a USB hub which gets virtual devices attached and unattached at certain points during the boot process. Among those emulated devices there is also one that uses the ID of Sony’s JIG module. Anyway Gamefreax [...]
[Privacy] International VPN Provider Searched by Authorities in Germany
August 26th, 2010 J. Epstein Perfect Privacy reports today, that a member of the staff of the well known international VPN provider Perfect Privacy has been police searched last friday (August 20th). H-Security writes: The search warrant was reportedly issued on suspicion that unknown perpetrators may have routed potentially criminal communications via the servers in the German city of Erfurt. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Freiheit statt Angst, Perfect Privacy, Privacy, Proxy, Security, Überwachung, Virtual Private Network, VPN No Comments »[PS3] PS Jailbreak and Clones To Be Released
August 26th, 2010 J. Epstein Media have widely reported about the latest steps in hacking the Playstation 3 console. Obviously that tiny PS Jailbreak USB Dongle turns a consumer PS3 into a debug PS3, thus allowing to run games from the internal or from an attached USB harddrive. The price is said to be around 160US$. For legal reasons here [...]
Posted in News Tags: Backup, Circumvent, Copy, copy protection, Debug, Game Copy, GeoHot, Hack, Harddisk, Harddrive, illegal, install, Jailbreak, Playstation 1 Comment »[Pre] Palm Testing Final Version Of Adobe Flash 10.1
June 22nd, 2010 J. Epstein Adobe.com today announced, that Adobe Flash 10.1 for mobile devices has been released to mobile platform partners: Flash Player 10.1 was also released to mobile platform partners to be supported on devices based on Android, BlackBerry, webOS, future versions of Windows® Phone, LiMo, MeeGo and Symbian OS, and is expected to be made available via [...]
Posted in News Tags: 10.1, Adobe, Android, Flash, iPhone, iPod Touch, Mobile Device, Palm, Palm Pre, Pixi, Pre 1 Comment »[Muzaq] In Memoriam Alberto Adriano
June 14th, 2010 J. Epstein Ten years ago, on June 14th, 2000 Alberto Adriano died from an attack of rightist extremists in the german city Dessau. Adriano was originally a contract worker from Mozambique who came to the German Democratic Republic in 1980. At the time of his death he had three children in the age between 5 months and [...]
Posted in Muzaq, News Tags: Alberto Adriano, Anti-Apartheid, Apartheid, Brothers Keepers, Foreigners, Fremdenfeindlichkeit, Fremdenhass, German, Germany, Ghandi, Meld, Muzaq-Production, Nazi, Nazis, Non Violent, Rightist Extremist, Stephen Biko, Steven Biko, Violence, Xeno Phobia, Xenophobia No Comments »[iPhone] Apple Presents iPhone 4
June 8th, 2010 J. Epstein Check Apple’s latest gadget. Now including video chat (via additional face camera) 5 megapix camera HD recording (720p at 30 frames/sec) 960×640 px display size 16GB / 32GB As expected, the leaked photos and videos of the iPhone 4 shown on Gizmodo some weeks ago were real.
[MacOS] Paragon Updates NTFS Driver for Mac OS
May 27th, 2010 J. Epstein The german Paragon Software Group has just released their Windows NT file system driver “NTFS for Mac OS X 8.0″. According to Paragon this driver is the only driver on the market that allows to read and write to NTFS drives with the same speed as native HFS+ drives. In contrast to Tuxera’s “NTFS for [...]
Posted in News Tags: 32bit, 64bit, FAT32, HFS, Mac Fuse, Mac OS X, MacOSX, NTFS, NTFS for Mac, NTFS-3G, Paragon, Paragon Software Group, Snow Leopard, Tuxera 2 Comments »[MacOS] Valve’s Steam Platform Barely Playable on Macs
May 18th, 2010 J. Epstein Tom’s Hardware tested Steam for the Mac intensively. Their first impressions are disappointing for Apple fans: the Windows version of Steam is a lot faster. As their benchmark test they used the Valve’s game “Portal” and took benchmarks from two computers: 1. A mid 2009 Mac Book Pro 2. A custom built Hackintosh Right, they’ve [...]
Posted in News Tags: Benchmark, competition, Direct X, Games, Gaming, Mac OS, Mac OS X, Mac Port, Open GL, OpenGL, Port, Portal, Porting, Robin, Round, Round Robin, Steam, Test, Valve, Windows, Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP No Comments »[iPhone] iPhone 4G Videos Leaked
May 18th, 2010 J. Epstein More videos showing Apple’s allegedly upcoming new Jesus phone iPhone 4G have surfaced on YouTube… Check’em here: and here: and another one:
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Beer, California, German Beer, Gizmodo, Hack, iPhone 4G, iPhone OS, iPhone OS 4.0, iPhone SDK, Jailbreak, Prototype, SDK, Stolen, Vietnam, Vietnamese No Comments »[iPad] Fuel.TV Replacing Skateboard With iPad
May 10th, 2010 J. Epstein Soon after they bought the iPad they found out it hasn’t got any usable interfaces, so it seems unusable as a notebook replacement, but it makes up as a skateboard replacement pretty well. See for yourself: Fuel.TV’s latest episode of Built To Shred. And hey: please don’t do that at home, this might void your [...]
[WebOS] Palm/HP Slate Code Name Hurrican To Come in Q3/2010?
May 9th, 2010 J. Epstein The Examiner.com reports that they got information from HP insiders. Under code name “Hurricane” it is rumored that HP and Palm are prepping a slate tablet running Palm’s latest operating system WebOS. Their timeline says Q3/2010. Read more on Examiner.com. With HP in the back that slate could become a real competitor to the iPad. [...]
[MacOS] VirtualBox 3.2 To Support Mac OS Guest on Windows Host [Update]
May 5th, 2010 J. Epstein We suppose Apple will not like that, but Oracle’s latest version of VirtualBox 3.2 Beta 1 now supports virtualization of Apple’s Mac OS X. Legal View Although Apple’s license agreement clearly prohibits installing Mac OS X on other hardware than Apple’s, the screenshot shows that even the Windows version of Mac OS X is prepped [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, Client, Dont Steal Mac OS X.kext, dsmos.kext, fakesmc.kext, Guest, Hardware, Host, Mac OS, netkas, Oracle, Sun, VirtualBox, Virtualization 4 Comments »[iPhone] Ellen Publicly Apologizes For Making Fun Of iPhone Usability
May 5th, 2010 J. Epstein Engadget.com reports that U.S. American Comedian Ellen DeGeneres apologized for making fun of the iPhone. In her “The Ellen DeGeneress Show ” she aired a funny Apple spoof. Sadly it seems Apple did not find it too funny. And so she seems to have been pleased to apologize… The vid is courtesy of Warnerbros. Sadly [...]
[iPhone] Untethered Jailbreak For Firmware 3.1.2, 3.1.3, and 3.2
May 4th, 2010 J. Epstein Team Spirit has just released a jailbreak for the latest firmwares for iPhone iPod Touch and iPad (early beta) As it seems it will only jailbreak an already activated device and it will not perform a carrier unlock. The jailbreak tool is available for Windows and Mac OS X and it installs the Cydia repository. [...]
Posted in News Tags: Activate, baseband, Carrier, firmware, Hack, Hacktivate, iPad, iPhone, iPhone Dev Team, iPod Touch, Jailbreak, Spirit, Team, Team Spirit, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] U.S. Antitrust Authorities Overhauling iPhone OS SDK Licence 4.0
May 4th, 2010 B. Kreisky Apple’s strategy of a “walled garden” now seems to be inspected by U.S. antitrust authorities. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department are overhauling Apple’s latest license change for the iPhone OS SDK 4.0. Although the process is at a preliminary stage, the interest of antitrust authorities show [...]
Posted in News Tags: Adobe, Advertisment, America, Antitrust, Apple, Authorities, beta, Developer, Federal Trade Commission, FTC, Google, iAd, iPhone OS 4.0, JD, Justice Department, Kartell, License, license agreement, SDK, Steve Jobs, USA No Comments »