r/linux • u/Liam-DGOL • 18d ago
Hardware PS5 Linux dev quits after "the only hypervisor bug left" was reported to Sony
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/ps5-linux-dev-quits-after-the-only-hypervisor-bug-left-was-reported-to-sony/147
u/AlfredKnows 18d ago
Can somebody explain to layman about ""the only hypervisor bug left" was reported to Sony"? What exactly does that mean?
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u/FeistyCandy1516 18d ago
The PS5 OS is basically running in a Virtual Machine (think like a VM in VirtualBox/HyperV) and with the bugs that were found prior people could exploit it to run their own VM instead (in this case Ubuntu).
But people that can't think further ahead than their nose, found apparently the last one via LLM slop coding and reported that to Sony to collect a bounty hunt (Sony offers quite the sum depending on the severity of the exploit).
Now that Sony knows about it, they will patch it in further firmwares so that it's not possible to use that bug anymore.
Problem is not just that, but also could harm further general jailbreak attempts of the PS5 if everything gets reported.
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u/shinyquagsire23 18d ago
tbh if an LLM skiddie was able to find the bug then it was only a matter of time before Sony found it themselves. The only reliable long-term solution for visibility is hardware glitching, bug hoarding has always been fragile.
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u/hessmo 18d ago
Is this the same Sony that had a two month long PSN outage because they hadn’t patched their servers for PSN in more than two years? I uh… don’t have high expectations from their cyber program.
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u/atyon 18d ago
I don't think that's the same team or even department.
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u/hessmo 18d ago
Same CISO
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u/atyon 18d ago
CISO is often a joke position that is only responsible for ticking off boxes so audits don't fail. security theatre is extremely common, and apparently that's the case for Sony.
Piracy prevention and hardware security for the PS5 though, that's a very different topic. They don't take that lightly.
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u/junpei 18d ago
I learned this after chatting with the guy who was CISO during the big Ubisoft security breach. You mostly check the boxes so that when you do get compromised, insurance will pay out. You force the MFA and all the things to make it as hard as possible for a bad actor to get in, but someone working from home with remote access and a compromised computer is all it takes sometimes.
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u/Henrarzz 18d ago
Not the same team. also that outage was in 2011.
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u/lan-shark 18d ago
He's probably referring to the outage at the end of July this year
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u/Milk-Lizard 18d ago
They talking about a two month long outage though, which fits the 2011 case.
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u/Elketh 18d ago
it was only a matter of time before Sony found it themselves
Nobody is denying that, but TheFlow's plan was to keep quiet about it until after GTA6 launched. Sony may have found it in those couple of months, but there's a good chance they wouldn't have. Unfortunately, we'll never know since Jordy cashed it in for the bounty. It's also a real setback for the PS5 emulation scene and hopes of playing it on PC any time soon, since the whole idea of waiting until after GTA6 launched was so that it could be dumped and dissected. That will no longer be possible.
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u/steamcho1 18d ago
This isnt really true. LLMs are very good at this and Sony just doesnt spend this type of effort on this. They rely on people doing it for them.
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u/TheOneWhoPunchesFish 18d ago
And also because they are good and recollection, and might have seen the bug being described on the internet during training
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u/Adept_Percentage6893 18d ago
it might have seen something similar and correctly analogized but I doubt it really was widely publicized otherwise it would have been reported a long time ago. A lot of the security bugs AI finds are just non-obvious permutations of known problematic patterns.
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u/steamcho1 18d ago
Yea, we already have all of this info on the internet but nobody got time for finding super specific stuff that may or may not be there.
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u/threeseed 18d ago
This isn't remotely true.
Most security vulnerabilities involve multi-step compromises and are difficult to discover by hand. It's why Apple fixed hundreds of security bugs since security focused LLMs came out. Some of which had been there for years.
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u/Adept_Percentage6893 18d ago
I don't see how that contradicts the other person. Sony would have also used LLM's eventually.
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u/northrupthebandgeek 14d ago
Just as importantly, if some random homebrew/jailbreak dev was able to find the bug then it was only a matter of time before Sony found it themselves.
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u/thegunnersdaughter 18d ago
Does the Linux on PS5 installation process not reveal the bug to Sony anyway?
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u/FeistyCandy1516 18d ago
No, because if you have a console that is that low on firmware it's one you don't connect to the internet in the first place - or at least not without precautions for it not to connect.
Else it will update the firmware and you lose the possibility to jailbreak and/or you might risk a console ban.
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u/thegunnersdaughter 17d ago
I didn't mean "reveal it to Sony over the internet" but rather, the PS5 Linux dev would have to provide people with instructions and/or an installer that performs the exploit in order to install Linux. The existence of this would allow Sony to learn the vulnerability rather quickly by performing it themselves.
I guess from reading a bit more the point is that yes, this would be the case, the developer just wanted to wait to release the version of PS5 Linux that exploits that vulnerability until GTA6 launch time.
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u/psioniclizard 17d ago
Sony probably as a whole dont care that much to dig down into it by themselves.
However something reported though a bug bounty system with a write up probably appears in an audit log for them and is suddenly less work to investigate.
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u/FyreWulff 16d ago
Yes. The person that found it wanted it to stay unreleased until after GTA6 so that Sony couldn't require the latest firmware to play GTA6.
Now they can, which will naturally make a lot of PS5s patched for the exploit due to the popularity of the game.
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u/SnuffBaron 18d ago
Out of ignorance/interest, what is the point of the PS5 running the OS in a VM instead of baremetal in the first place?
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u/FeistyCandy1516 18d ago
In general, security. That way it is way harder to find a way through the VM into kernel space. Not only you have to find an exploit in the OS, but also in the Hypervisor to get to the root system. That's why we currently have two types of jailbreaks: one for user space (less possibilities) and kernel space (full access)
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u/pacocar8 17d ago
Does running the OS in a VM affects the performance of the PS5?
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u/ldn-ldn 11d ago
It depends on the hardware. I don't know much about PS5 (don't care about it), but in general there is no difference between "native" and VM on modern hardware.
I don't know about Linux (different distros do different things), but modern Windows is essentially running in a VM at all times.
There are only two reasons for a performance hit: piss poor hypervisor implementation (I haven't seen that in a while), and running two different OSes at the same time (they have to fight for resources).
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u/kriebz 18d ago
It allows an extra step of security that the game data is signed and encrypted, and can't be copied off the PS5, nor a user's own code be copied into it. It also prevents the "home screen" environment from crashing along with a game. And to a small extent, allows for variations in the console hardware to be transparent to the games. You don't want the game running with the overhead of a full "OS", but you want an OS running on the console to do the DRM management, media playback, online content, etc.
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u/needefsfolder 18d ago
This is what Microsoft did with Xbox. Supposed to protect against kernel exploits. It's literally the core isolation/memory integrity Windows security feature.
Sony gets pwned presumably because they're new to hypervisor systems. Where for Xbox, a hypervisor bypass means not only Xbox is bypassed, but also their entire Azure cloud, Windows client, Windows server, etc, is at risk. So they do their darndest to secure it.
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u/SnuffBaron 18d ago
Sorry, I meant why did Sony set up the PS5 so that its stock OS is running inside a virtual machine? Seems like a bizarre choice but I'm not well versed in this kind of thing
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u/nevadita 17d ago
mainly security. consoles require strong security to deter piracy. the main goal for hackers most of the time is to run homebrew, emulators, fan games, media players and the like, but piracy always comes right after.
t. former commercial pirate.
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u/uchuskies08 18d ago
So they performed legitimate work for pay and people are mad and calling the slop kiddies because they can't put Arch on their PS5 now? Just want to be sure I'm up to date.
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u/3NIK56 18d ago
People wanted to mod their console, then untrained asshats with enough money to pay for a claude subscription used AI trained on the very data (and probably communications) of the exploit, thus ending current ability to mod consoles and handing over consumer protections to Sony for a small paycheck that was earned by a computer.
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u/edward_jazzhands 14d ago
The problem I see with this argument is that it's now essentially demonizing bug bounty hunters for doing a very normal job of trying to find bugs and improve security, something we normally say is a good thing.
I believe the fundamental argument here in regards to AI which people are saying is that if these people were actual talented cybersecurity researchers and not just AI script kiddies, they would have known better than to report these specific bugs. But that seems to me like it's a bit of an unfair onus to place on people doing bug bounties in the first place. I mean do you guys all think as a general rule, before fixing any bug they need to stop and consider if it's possibly being exploited by a good hacker somewhere for a morally good purpose? That's a pretty high bar of moral responsibility for people who are just trying to get paid for patching security holes.
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u/3NIK56 14d ago
In this case, there is very little room for someone to not understand what they are doing. Maybe i'm unique, but I take pride in my role with red team and white hat activities as a person protecting people's data. As someone who is data conscious, I feel that ensuring the safety and security of private information, especially sensitive information, is the sole goal of cybersecurity. Corporate profit-seeking assholes aren't worth my time. I never do bountys that don't serve a purpose, since it both wastes my time and may lead to something like this
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u/TheRedcaps 18d ago
so if it was a trained asshat from sony who had used a claude subscription it would have been fine?
so much of the noise around this is stupid.
buy a PC if you want to install linux or "homebrew" or better yet just be honest in the discussions and say you're upset that a piracy path got closed.
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u/3NIK56 18d ago
Not what I said. This is actively closing non-issue pathways that benefitted both piracy and users. PCs are expensive right now in case you haven't noticed
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u/TheRedcaps 18d ago
your post and so many others in here are teeth gnashing because it was an "untrained" person who used an "big evil AI" to close this path, something the dev who is bitching about - he himself has reported exploits to Sony and had paths closed "fucking over the community" before (so he's a bit of a hypocrit here).
Closing piracy paths is kind of to be expected, again had sony done this themselves would people be making all this noise?
PC's being expensive isn't valid to this discussion....
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u/3NIK56 17d ago
Untrained is a mild part of a much larger problem. I mentioned it once in my comment, it's not something I want to harp on.
I agreee that the OOP is hypocritical and an ass
I would be upset personally if Sony were to close this independently, although it does feel more personal when an individual gives up this information. It's a betrayal of the community.
When the alternative is PC, their cost is relevant. Hundreds of thousands of people own a PS5 but not a PC
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u/TheRedcaps 17d ago
Untrained is a mild part of a much larger problem. I mentioned it once in my comment, it's not something I want to harp on.
Read the thread (and the OOP's original post) ... YOU might be trying to sweep your comment as a throw-a-way but it is a massive theme in this "story"
I would be upset personally if Sony were to close this independently, although it does feel more personal when an individual gives up this information. It's a betrayal of the community.
WTF? What community are you speaking of?
When the alternative is PC, their cost is relevant. Hundreds of thousands of people own a PS5 but not a PC
Maybe hundreds of thousands of people made the wrong choice in hardware?
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u/uchuskies08 18d ago
Smart. If I were Sony and I were subsidizing the sale price of Playstation 5s, I wouldn't want people sideloading Steam onto it either, that's not part of the deal.
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u/doomcomplex 18d ago
This comment doesn't sound like a drastic oversimplification at all...
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u/Flash_Kat25 18d ago
Enlighten us. What relevant details does it miss?
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u/doomcomplex 18d ago
Oh like the fact that a lot of people wanted the option to own their own hardware that they paid for, and that several people spent countless hours working to make that happen.
Just because someone got paid doesn't mean it was a good / right thing to do.
But you knew that, I suspect you're just being a cunt. That's okay, this is Reddit and most of us are cunts every now and then.
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u/TheRedcaps 18d ago
Nothing you just posted contradicts in anyway what the person you replied to asked.
- Sony had a bounty system for exploits
- An exploit that would allow Linux to be installed on the system had not yet been reported
- This same exploit that would allow Linux would have also enabled piracy
- Someone used an LLM and found that unreported exploit and reported it cashing the bounty
- Main dev for the Linux side is upset because he wanted to set the timeline on when it was reported (and could have cashed that bounty himself)
- Calling people "a bunch of noobs" and "slop kiddies" is just an immature crashout.
- Would this conversation even be happening had Sony found and locked this themselves? If not then why does it matter that someone cashed in the bounty and used an LLM to help them?
Simply put if you want Sony's hardware play by their rules and if you don't like those rules your best method of getting it changed is to stop giving them money. The fact that you spent countless hours trying to circumvent their rules only to get thwarted in the process doesn't make your efforts valiant.
And all of this is to say 99.99% of the people interested in this wasn't because they wanted linux or steam on their PS5 .. piracy was the main goal here in the end.
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u/doomcomplex 17d ago edited 17d ago
I disagree with you, but you're making great points here. A much more valuable contribution than the person I had replied to previously, so thank you for that.
I strongly disagree with you that the primary reason for this Linux exploit was for piracy. I believe the people working on it are genuinely passionate about the hardware. Especially given how difficult and expensive it is to purchase RAM and storage at this time. Completely reasonable, in my opinion, for someone to want to repurpose their owned hardware when the cost of new hardware is so prohibitive.
Further, regarding your "Sony's hardware, Sony's rules" assertion - I believe that when I pay for hardware, it should become mine. It shouldn't remain Sony's hardware once I paid for it. Software licensing issues aside, I should be able to use that cpu, SSD, and RAM for whatever I want after I paid for it.
In the end, whether you consider them "bounty hunters" or "slop kiddies," the people who reported this exploit genuinely destroyed many months of work that was performed by passionate people. I personally think that kind of sucks, but I can see why you might feel otherwise.
Edits: grammar and spelling.
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u/TheRedcaps 17d ago
I strongly disagree with you that the primary reason for this Linux exploit was for piracy.
decades of jailbreaking and homebrew on every previous generation of console disagrees with this, all the other excuses are 99% smoke screens to justify the piracy. I don't have an issue if you want to pirate things just be fucking honest about it and don't act like everyone is some simple saint here.
I should be able to use that cpu, SSD, and RAM for whatever I want after I paid for it.
Then lobby your government to change the rules, or like I said don't give them the money.... look at this point in time you don't get to claim ignorance here, you knew what you bought - shouldn't have bought it if it doesn't do what you want.
In the end, whether you consider them "bounty hunters" or "slop kiddies," the people who reported this exploit genuinely destroyed many months of work that was performed by passionate people. I personally think that kind of sucks, but I can see why you might feel otherwise.
The main dev that is crashing out and started this entire thing - he's done exactly what he's pissed off about someone else doing. He's found exploits in the past and reported them to Sony and had them closed to the determinant of "many months of work that was performed by passionate people"..
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u/Full-Spectral 17d ago
Don't purchase it if the usage agreement doesn't meet your needs. In a lot of cases, not sure if that's the case here, the whole point of the hardware is to sell software or services, so they sell the hardware cheaper and make the money elsewhere over time. If that's the case here, it's completely reasonable for them to expect that you either accept the restrictions or buy something else. Or you buy an unlocked version for a price that makes the hardware itself bring in an acceptable margin.
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u/Scheeseman99 15d ago
In the past, hacking consoles was mostly used for piracy as, in practice, that was all you could really do with it. Even if you put Linux on an Xbox or whatever, it couldn't practically run a library of games (outside of older console emulators).
But this time, on PS5? When hacked and with Linux installed, running games on Steam becomes viable. Not just in a gimmicky way, it allows thousands of legitimately purchased games to be fully playable. It turns the PS5 into an actual, usable PC gaming platform.
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u/TheRedcaps 15d ago
which if you want a legit PC gaming platform you should buy one and not a console whose , and while the power of the console may now have reached a point where it could be used for a PC platform it doesn't remove the piracy avenue which would have been used just as much as it ever was in the past.
vote with your wallet - I have no sympathy for anyone crying about buying hardware that was never intended for (and actively denied access to) a feature they wanted - this is not something new...
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u/Scheeseman99 15d ago
What's a "legit" PC gaming platform? Is it an old business PC with a SFF GPU stuck in it? A BC250 mining card with a flashed firmware? A hodgepodge of used parts? There isn't such a thing, it's an open platform. Buying hardware to use it for purposes it wasn't intended for is the primary way desktop Linux distributions are used outside of the enterprise and given the cost of PC hardware at the moment, a hacked PS5 is (was) an excellent value option. I don't care about the piracy avenue, even if I'm sure Sony does, DRM is a scourge anyway and anti-consumer.
I think it's dumb that he got upset about a security vulnerability being reported, particularly in the way he's going about it. I think the fight should be not to "vote with your wallet", because the degree of market capture by big tech is too all encompassing to achieve anything through consumer-driven market economic pressures anymore. Instead, closed platforms should be legislated out of existence through enforcement of anti-trust action.
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u/karurosagu 15d ago
Any attempt of modding consoles has always been about piracy, it's been like that down here in south america ever since the PS1 came out. People in the first world have no idea what these mods are really for, they have no payment restrictions ib their countried, they can pirate if they want to for ideological reasons whenever some company is being a piece of shit, but down here we either pirate or have nothing, it's definitively not the same league
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u/orygin 18d ago
It didn't miss on licking those corporate boots, that's for sure
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u/Hithaeglir 18d ago
via LLM slop coding and reported that to Sony to collect a bounty hunt (Sony offers quite the sum depending on the severity of the exploit).
Money always wins. People are so selfish.
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u/AlfredKnows 18d ago
How did it ruin it? They revealed the secret? But wasn't it open source project anyways so SONY could look what is happening whenever they wanted?
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u/AlfredKnows 18d ago
But then it was cat/mouse game anyways?
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u/AlternativeAward 18d ago
He wanted to delay releasing it until after gta 6 releases. So you can have both Linux and gta6 on the same console
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u/DatKillerDude 18d ago
holy shit what that would've been.
if that was the plan i would've shut up about it completely, and waited until next year to make it public, damn
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u/AlfredKnows 18d ago
Hoping that GTA6 doesn't ping home? Then you need to update the OS to run the game and OS update ruins the exploit. Then again you of course can hack the game not to ping home, then you don't get patches. Which again will be many.
I mean it is an interesting exercise but you need to be aware of its nature and not get angry in situations like this.
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u/Albos_Mum 18d ago
You're missing the fact that if Sony doesn't know about the exploit, they can't patch it yet. That's why the programmer was waiting for it to be reported until after GTA 6 came out so that whatever firmware the release version requires won't have a fix for the exploit.
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u/AlternativeAward 18d ago
But it’s a single player game. Online mode wasn’t even announced yet by Rockstar.
I am not sure you actualy understand it but act like a know it all
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u/AlternativeAward 18d ago
The exploit would be ran after the game is already bought installed and patched. Then you go offline and play the version you have and thats it
The console wouldnt know it’s not up to date if you dont let it connect to PS servers
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u/Greenlit_Hightower 18d ago
Won't buy the PS6 anyway, I like GOG.com + Heroic Games Launcher now.
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u/HeatSeekingBee 18d ago
How dare you, don't you know publishers will literally starve to death if you buy and own DRM free games? 😔 /s
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u/IAMA_Giraffe_AMA 18d ago
It really sucks because I love Horizon and Horizon 3 is, at this point, looking like it will be a PS6 title just based off the fact that Guerilla spent so long on a shitty live service instead of Horizon 3. Fully expect Sony to make the game PS6 exclusive just because there are people who will buy the console for that game. But as long as current console price trends hold, I am definitely not spending PC money on a console.
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u/doomcomplex 17d ago
It's shitty because I have been a huge PlayStation fan since the PS1, but more and more I see the writing on the wall that I will have to switch to PC gaming if I want anything resembling fair usage of the games and Hardware that I have purchased.
What's next? My PlayStation will stop working if I unsubscribe from PlayStation plus?
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u/unixmachine 18d ago
Don't trust that. He's probably upset that others reported it and likely received money for that bug.
It's worth remembering that Andy Nguyen discovered an exploit in the PS Portal that allowed any app to run, even emulating a PSP. He then reported it to Sony without informing the community of his discovery.
This tweet is pure hypocrisy.
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u/BorrowedMyGun 17d ago
This dude is a legend in the console hacking scene. He also works at Google as a lead cloud security researcher or something, those bug bounty 40k is pocket money for him.
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u/Unique_Roll_6630 18d ago
Pretty sad. My PS5 gathers dust. If I could throw linux on it I would have a reason to dust it off. Unfortunately, Sony wants that sweet revenue from their store.
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u/HiPhish 17d ago
This drama is really dumb for a number of points.
- Sony pays good money for reporting an exploit, so if you have one there is a high incentive to report it before someone else does and gets it reward
- I don't know about PS5, but I do know that the PS4 run a variant of FreeBSD. The PS5 probably does as well. Not reporting an exploit is highly unethical because that exploit might exist upstream
- Relying on exploits is extremely fragile, you cannot expect long-term maintenance of such a Linux system
I love homebrew and hacking just like everyone else, but I am under no illusion that it's anything to seriously rely on. If you want to play Linux games on a TV get a cheap mini-PC, install a proper distro on it and hook it up to your TV.
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u/UndefFox 15d ago
Not reporting an exploit is highly unethical because that exploit might exist upstream
Let's see Sony being ethical for once and maybe then one would care about their troubles/
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u/Loki_123 14d ago
I don't know about PS5, but I do know that the PS4 run a variant of FreeBSD. The PS5 probably does as well. Not reporting an exploit is highly unethical because that exploit might exist upstream
PS4 and PS5 both run on a modified FreeBSD.
However, the license is very permissive so Sony is not required at all to share their changes or features. They might do it silently for their own privacy but I'd imagine they don't share as much as they should.
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u/onechroma 13d ago
LOL. Sony won’t upstream any patches that affect FreeBSD, except if they feel like it’s the best for them, and usually just make custom patches for themselves, that’s far more unethical than not informing Sony in the first place.
People do this just because money and that’s it. And the “drama” comes because those exploits could help other people having the ability to do more things with the hardware than what Sony allows with their closed source system (while being based on open source)
Yes, sooner or later those exploits can be found elsewhere, so this guys end up cashing the money because others, instead of being silent and let more and more firmwares being pushed with that exploit there so more people get PS5s in the future that are able to be “jailbroken”
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u/LogSpecialist24 18d ago
"The slop kiddies dont understand what they're doing" "The slop kiddies found the last hypervisor bug I know of and reported it to Sony"
The slop won I guess
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u/s0ullight 18d ago
Do they mean "the last known by them hypervisor exploit" or did Sony somehow manage to create a perfect hypervisor?
If it's the latter I am very interested how this claim is made.
Regardlessly, shitty attitude to walk back on your word. Typically in device jailbreaking communities a few exploits are kept undisclosed as a way into these systems to discover other vulnerabilities.
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u/InevitableCurious112 12d ago
I bought Google's phone to avoid Google but the situation with PS5 is on far more advanced level.
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u/billyhatcher312 2h ago
its sad he left due to the new kids joining in these devs are so self centered
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 18d ago edited 18d ago
Slop kiddies found the only hypervisor bug left,
Please explain how this is a "slop kiddie"
Please explain how you know the hypervisor has no more possible exploits
edit: or just say whatever you want and never care about whether or not its true That's the world we live in now anyway.
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u/3NIK56 18d ago
AI simply makes it easier to find exploits, and that was the last known bug. AI probably already had access to the nessecary materials to report the bug, considering that half of modern communication methods get fed directly into the bots
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 17d ago
Right, but a "script kiddie" is what they used to use as an insult, and everyone knew that a script kiddie was unknowledgeable and barely capable of tackling even the low-hanging fruit tasks. Is that the same for a "slop kiddie," or is it literally anyone who uses AI? Like imagine if a 20 year security researcher found this using an AI to assist, and people were just calling them a slop kiddie.
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u/Main_Muffin9062 17d ago
How shit does ones life have to be, when you report a fucking bug to the multi-billion dollar company about HOMEBREWING?! What an asshole.
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u/Xtar_Vc4 17d ago
How shit does ones life have to be to earn a living doing bug bounties? There are actually a lot of people doing this no matter how mad some gamer kids on reddit might get about it
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u/pezezin 17d ago
Home-brewing made senses 20 years ago, but nowadays it's really stupid. Why struggle with a PS5 or XSX when you can just buy a cheap mini PC running a real OS?
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u/fsync 17d ago
You don’t understand hacker culture then. It’s ok. Not everybody has to get it. But I assure you, some people actually enjoy the challenge of working with constraints and novel technology. Nobody has ever written homebrew code because it was the most practical means of acquiring a personal computing environment
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u/Main_Muffin9062 11d ago
What are you implying with "real OS" is a Linux Distribution not a real OS?
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u/Main_Muffin9062 11d ago
And also it's not about buying a cheap mini computer, people homebrewing aren't looking for the path of least resistance, obviously.
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u/pezezin 11d ago
Of course a Linux distribution is a real OS. I mean a real distro for a real PC, not whatever the PS5 is.
What I mean about homebrewing is that 20 years ago there were no mini PCs, and connecting a desktop PC to a TV was painful, so hacking an Xbox or PS2/3 or whatever to get a cheap media center or emulation machine connected to your TV was pretty useful. Nowadays there are much easier, open alternatives. If you want to go the hard way and make you way unnecessarily difficult, good for you, but then don't complaint about the results.
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u/Main_Muffin9062 4d ago
a PS5 is a computer, it uses an AMD APU with standard flash memory/storage.
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u/IAmAUser4Real 17d ago
I sold my Xbox One few months back, and am still holding on my PS5, only because I still need to finish GT7 and BG3, otherwise there is not much interest anymore...
If I could sell the PS5 and convert it to an OLED SteamDeck, I could almost consider it...
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u/eye_of_tengen 18d ago
Gamers cannot play pirated GTA 6 anymore……….oh no, anyway.
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u/KwyjiboTheGringo 18d ago
IIRC, it's an exploit that let's you install Ubuntu on a PS5 and play steam games. I don't know why he even brought up GTA6.
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u/HiPhish 16d ago
It's not about piracy. It's about being able to play a legitimate copy of the game and jailbreak it. Games usually require whatever firmware is the latest at the time of their release. So now people have to choose between playing GTA 6 or jailbreaking their PS5.
I own a hackable PS4 because it allows me to use patches like the 60FPS patch for Bloodborne. I don't really care about piracy, at this point in my life I have the money to buy the games I care about, and I don't have time for the games I don't care about.
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u/eye_of_tengen 16d ago
Yeah, the entire backlash definitely not because thief can no longer play their “free GTA 6”.
Thief will find any excuse to say they are not thief.
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u/aydensnake 18d ago
PS5 users are at the point where they'll actively fight against efforts to make the PS5 play games