Obviously notorious George Hotz has managed to get all 7 SPUs of the Playstation 3′s CPU under his control. This means although he cannot access the CPU’s root key, he now can decrypt everything that’s going thru these SPUs like datastreams of (encrypted) commercial games. The PPU is higher on the control chain then the [...]
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[PS3] GeoHot Opens All HV’s SPUs / XorLoser Preps Manual
February 15th, 2010 
J. ΞPSTΞÏN 
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1 Comment »[PS3] GeoHot Hacks PS3′s Hypervisor Protection
January 25th, 2010 J. ΞPSTΞÏN Notorious iPhone hacker GeoHot has succesfully circumvented the Playstation’s security system. According to his latest blog entry, he has dumped LV0 and LV1 code, thus allowing him to (theoretically) run code on the processor, bypassing the hypervisor. The Playstation’s hypervisor is intended to run third party software (like Yellow Dog Linux) on a virtualized level, [...]
Posted in News Tags: Blu Ray, copy protection, DRM, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, Hack, Hyper Visor, HyperVisor, IBM, IBM Power PC, modchip, Platform Virtualization, Playstation, playstation 3, Power PC, Protection, ps 3, ps3, Sony, virtual machine, Virtual Machine Monitor, Virtualization, VM, VMM 2 Comments »[iPhone] GeoHot Announces Latest Baseband Unlock
November 1st, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN George Hotz – by now almost any iPhone user should know that guy – hacked the latest baseband firmware 05.11.07. The unlock will be named BlackSn0w, well … That means all carrier or SIM locked iPhones around the globe running this latest firmware can be used with different SIM cards from different carriers. Thus making [...]
Posted in News Tags: Apple, baseband, carrier lock, crack, Firmware 3.1.2, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, GeorgeHotz, Hack, Hacktivation, Hactivation, iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3Gs, iPhone Dev Team, iPhoneDevTeam, Jailbreak, Locked to Carrier, Sim, un lock, Unlock No Comments »[iPod] GeoHot Jailbreaks iPod Touch Firmware 3.1
October 8th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN GeoHot today posted a photo of a jailbroken iPod Touch running iPhone OS 3.1. He eventually made it. As of now there is no more information available, but it is likely that this is the approach he and the Chronic Dev Team were talking about.
Posted in News Tags: 3.1, Apple, apps, Chronic Dev Team, custom app, Cydia, Cydia Store, CydiaStore, firmware, Geo Hot, GeoHot, George Hotz, Hack, iPhone Dev Team, iPhone OS, iPod Touch, iPodTouch, iPT, jail break, Jailbreak, Unlock No Comments »[iPhone] GreenPois0n to Jailbreak all iPhones and iPod Touchs
October 6th, 2009 J. ΞPSTΞÏN What has happened so far Some irritation is going on in the Apple hacking community. On the one hand GeoHot today announced that there will be a tool that will allow jailbreaking all iPhones and iPod Touchs, but as he wished to perform further tests he didn’t tell anything about the procedure. The Chronic Dev [...]
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