I’m not much for understanding all of the lingo, so I’m wondering if this is something I could do on my own. I would love to make my ps5 my “smart” tv and no longer have to use Google’s services.
Also, installing RetroArch on it would be super sweet. Will this all be possible for a low level user, or will I need an expert to put Linux on it so I can customize my rig?
My second question that wasn’t quite clear was if I could have my psn account and still play online while changing the os. I still want to play with my friends online while being able to load other apps. I know if it’s detected I changed things I’ll get locked out, but how will they tell?
It generally does require a halfway decent techie background to hack a console (or anything, like jailbreaking a phone). At the very least, being able to follow guides exactly to the letter or risk bricking a device.
Generally speaking, hacking a console will not let you play online.
You generally don’t want to put a hacked console on the internet at all to keep it from being potentially flagged from the parent service like PSN
Now, this could all be different depending on the actual hack, but it’s what’s been true for previous ones.
Thank you. I figured it’d likely be too hard for me to do, but being able to get someone to mod my machine is pretty sweet. I might wait for a bit longer to do it, but I’m liking where this is going. And if I could run steam on it, I might just do it right away so I can play those games instead of my PS ones. Most games are cross platform now anyways.
Ever since Sony and Nintendo switched to paid online that has no longer been the con it used to be for me. Back for the PS3 I didn’t jailbreak it since online was free, but for the switch and ps4 I didn’t hesitate.
If this is something you want to try for yourself, either buy a second PS5 and use a burner account on it, or be prepared for the possibility of losing your entire PSN account. This goes for pretty much any internet-enabled console modding.
Nintendo deactivated a 10+ year old account of mine when I tried modding a Wii a while back. It wasn't a huge deal at the time, because I still had physical copies of most of my games at that point. But these days, my library is almost entirely digital, so I keep separate fuck-around accounts so that I don't find-out with an account I've spent money on.
hypothetically, could they use different keys for each hardware revision? that'd help limit the impact as not every existing console would be affected. you'd think they had a plan for this in place after the PS3 keys leaked and their multiple huge security breaches
Strong ai slop vibes emanating from the article. It’s full of contradictions and listicles. Each section feels divorced from the others, and subsection titles are larger than section titles.
The information density feels way too high for something ai written, but at the very least they must’ve used an ai to fuck it up afterwards
Yeah agreed especially further down when it’s just randomly rehashing old history. It’s also mixing up decryption and verification even in the beginning of the article. First they write:
BootROM (Level 0): The CPU runs code burned into it at the factory. This code is immutable (cannot be changed). It uses the ROM Keys to verify the signature of the next loader.
Then just two paragraphs below:
The ROM Keys change everything. With these keys, hackers can decrypt the Level 1 Bootloader.
So which is it? Usually bootloaders in a chain hash the next stage. That hash is compared with the signed hash the stage presents, and the signature on the signed hash is cryptographically verified against the locally stored trusted keys. No encryption or decryption takes place. Maybe this is different for the PS5 but then that would be noteworthy, not something you just assume readers to know.
That was a rhetorical question after I pointed out the inconsistency: The author claimed they keys were for verification and then also said they were used to decrypt.
That’s most likely bullshit, and if it isn’t they should explain the unusual setup in detail instead of glossing over it.
Yeah I checked the twitter profiles of the two people mentioned, one doesnt talk about it at all and the other says it’s not what people think and it won’t enable CFW.
Consoles have extremely limited variations, less variables to mess with. A ps5 is a ps5, but a Samsung Galaxy 25 isn’t the same as a Samsung Galaxy FE25
But if Samsung’s firmware keys or whatever leaked, wouldn’t that apply to all of them? It’s not like they reinvent all their infrastructure for each phone.
Actually, I take it back. These things do happen in the mobile world, they’re just not released publicly. Celebrite etc just gobble them up
As someone else pointed out, there’s a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different “Samsung Galaxy …” did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6
That’s 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there’s a handful of models of “PS5” standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It’s a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii’s security was literally beaten by tweezers
Good news, a new exploit has been recently found that can unlock the boot loader of several older Sony phones, even the Japanese models which were not unlockable until the discovery!
I'm kinda out of touch with hardware pricing these days. Let's say I wanted to buy a second PS5 for the purposes of turning into a desktop like this; would that be better or worse than just buying normal hardware and building a PC of equivalent specs?
The PC would undoubtedly be much better. Mainly because you would get better software support. Not saying this isn’t cool. I already own a low firmware ps5 for such an occasion. But real PC hardware is better.
Or just… don’t by consoles at all. Buy a mini PC (which you can upgrade too) or wait for the Steam Cube? Which would both be cheaper in the long run. Because why still funnel money into a company that seems to be adamant that it owns that machine (and lets be honest, could try and use any kind of kill switch or safeguard to stop you from doing so) and will wield your money as a weapon against you.
It’s like soliciting a stalker because you enjoy receiving random gifts in the mail with totally no strings attached.
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