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Well, that's pretty exciting. My PS5 is already on the latest firmware though lol
Can we not, like... Factory reset these things to roll back to whatever was installed when it was purchased? ๐ค
Most consoles, if not all, have electronic fuses that are embedded inside chips that they intentionally blow out with each firmware update that prevent them from rolling back to older versions.
Are you serious? Wtf
Yes, it's a common practice that's been done right back to PS2 and Xbox360 days.
Because it's still their console, even though you paid for it. They are just graciously letting you use it as long as you stay profitable to them.
lmao
Thats called a downgrade attack and is explicitly blocked by most modern security models that are not a PC.
That's insane
Is it?
As a malicious actor or red-team player, I would want to get you on as old of an OS as I could in order to exploit a wider range of CVEs. Or in most cases, one would be hunting for a specific set of CVEs. Once I've got you on the version I want, I can then perform other attacks and ensure that they run.
The iPhone, many Android phones, some network equipment, and game consoles all have eFuses that burn when you perform an update, and the specific number or pattern they burn in is used to determine the lowest OS version your device is allowed to be on in order to stop this from happening.
I mean, my phone has all sorts of private and confidential information and is regularly in hostile environments where attackers might get physical access to it. Kinda want the best, most hardened security posture.
My Playstation sits in my living room and has my gaming history and access to my games...
It could also have your credit card info if you've set it up for the store. Which I imagine most people do, since many games don't even get physical copies made anymore.
Ive worked with ecommerce enough to not store my card anywhere. Also pretty sure they'd store it in the cloud so could max it out in the store and I could claim the fraud.
But if your in my living room thinking, I'm going to sit down and hack his Playstation to get his credit card... Don't know man, seems there's better plans.
Ive worked with ecommerce enough to not store my card anywhere.
Not storing it is not necessarily enough to protect you either, though. If their servers get compromised, it's very easy for them to send that data elsewhere instead of/in addition to working normally.
It is indeed, such is the state of the industry
This, this is why my PS5 has been offline and waiting for hacks'
This is not even close to the reason that my PS5 has been offline, but it's super neat and probably means we're close to piracy.
Well the real reason is I built a PC and gave Sony the finger for jacking the price of premium. Again.
You and I are much alike, kinsman.
Back in March this year, security engineer and modder Andy Nguyen started experimenting with running Linux on the PS5. After months of testing and improvements, he has finally released PS5-Linux
Math was never my strongest point, but something doesent add up here.
2 months is still "months" isn't it?
But it's 1,5 months.
That's right, months
Made sense to the LLM!
If I install Linux on a PS5, can I use the Blu-ray drive as a PC optical drive to rip DVD's and shit?
I doubt it, but if so, maybe you can do UHD Blu-Rays too, since the PS5 can handle those.
Based on this list, it looks like you have to be sitting on a 2022 or earlier non-updated PS5 to have a chance at the 4.51 or lower firmware to use this. A chance it'll open up to other firmwares and as said maybe there's a limited functionality 5.xx exploit on the horizon, but just a bit of reality before you get too excited.
Didn't the PS5 boot signing keys leak recently? The word when that happened was that it blew PS5 modding wide open in a way that couldn't be closed without new hardware, though I guess publishing anything that used Sony's key would have their lawyers after you real quick.
I wonder what would happen if people started mass posting the key like they did with the DVD DRM keys back in the day, though I'm sure the industry would be much more aggro these days
Well gotta turn off auto updates immediately.
Edit: by immediately I mean years ago, apparently.
I immediately blocked my ps5 from the internet when the Rom keys got leaked, but I too fear it was already too late
