Sony has cleared some of the major legal hurdles in containing the recent jailbreak of the PS3 security functions. Â Graf Chokolo is one of the lead developers in the custom firmware development process. Â He recently issued Sony an ultimatum via his blog. Â The ultimatum, to stop pursuing legal action or he will release IDA database. Â This database is a series of tools for the PS3’s Hypervisor and Hypervisor processes.
Why is this important? Â Well, it would make the reverse engineering process on the PS3 much easier for other custom firmware developers and hackers. Â IDA Pro Disassembler is a tool that is commonly used to reverse engineer software.
graf_chokolo – January 29, 2011 at 8:05 am
If SONY will continue like this i will upload my IDA database for HV and HV procs :-)
Here is a link to my payload: xxx.xxx.com
I’m pretty sure as cool as it sounded when this guy made a public threat to cause financial harm to Sony, he didn’t quite think this through. Â Blackmail isn’t really, how should I say, umm legal.