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Sony PSP 2.0 Firmware Hacked! |
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Written by FrontLine Assembly
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Sep 25, 2005 at 11:57 PM |
Just as I mentioned a week or so ago about the PSP and the fact that
the Scene will win over the software companies, that statement has come
true. Someone has figured out a way to hack the Sony PSP with 2.0
firmware. The funny thing is that the 2.0 version had 4 software
protection mechanisms whereas 1.51 and 1.52 had 3 but they also added a
feature in 2.0 that made it possible to hack the system.
Surprisingly enough the hack came from the added feature of being able
to change the background of the PSP to any image you wanted. This time
it happened to be a malformed PNG with some exploit code loaded as a
secondary image. It took one person about a month to figure this out
and then less than a day for someone to write actual homebrew software
for it. The first program I saw was the classic "Hello World".
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