The PS3 Hacked..Finally!

It seems that the genius who broke open the iPhone (Geohot Verbatim),  has been spending time breaking open the PS3. How much time? He says it has taken him 5 weeks to finally break through the securities Sony had put in place.
The hack itself is just the ability to access the entire system memory, so it won’t play your downloaded games or allow home-brew as yet. His next step is to reverse engineer everything he has found, but this is definitely a step towards a completely open system for homebrewers and pirates.
3 years 2 months and 11 days it has taken, so you gotta give Sony some credit.
Via [PS3 Hacks]

The Only Good DRM Is A Dead One

One day till Christmas and it looks like Kindle owners got an early gift. An Israeli hacker named Labba has created a Python script which decrypts your legitimately purchased Amazon E-books.  Then, you can throw your legitimately purchased  books on your Nook or any other E-Reader device.

Not the most user friendly process, but if you are interested  go check out the  Hacking.org forums.

Play Copied PS3 Games Doable?

This is a break through that pirates worldwide will love to hear about. What is the news? There has been success in running backup Playstation 3 games on a “PS3 Test” development machine. The better news is, they were able to play games from internal and external (USB) HDD’s.
There are a few little things to remember before being able to do this of course. These include stripping the games of encryption, patching them, and remastering to get them to load. Not something many people without know how can do.
The good news for non-know-how’ers (I made it up, but I think it works) is there will surely be nice pirates out there who will happily place pre-hacked games on torrent sites (that will then be taken to court) for everyone to leech. It has taken over a year, but eventually the hackers always win.

For more info, click over to Engadget.