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I am entirely supportive of the user's right to do what they please with their devices (a right which may soon be enshrined in European law under the Digital Ma
by ddevault 4y ago
I am entirely supportive of the user's right to do what they please with their devices (a right which may soon be enshrined in European law under the Digital Markets Act), and I celebrate jailbreaks as a means of liberating users from oppressive vendors. That said, I cannot help but smile at the fact that console hacks are almost always exploited from the web browser these days. If you need more proof that the web is a bloated, complex platform which is impossible to secure, then here you have it.
- diydsp 4y agoPSP was swaploit. I wouldn't diss web too hard, it's just the biggest attack surface. Plus this also used a kern vuln.
- erk__ 4y agoI find it much more surprising that it uses a CVE which was fixed upstream in 2020, I guess PlayStation don't pull upstream often https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:20.ipv6.asc https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-20:20...
- collegeburner 4y agoi mean that's just part of the exploit chain, looks like sony probably didn't keep the kernel up to date either. a browser is just the easy starting point bc it's a widely-understood piece of open source code an attacker can use.
- EMIRELADERO 4y ago> (a right which may soon be enshrined in European law under the Digital Markets Act), That only applies to a handful of companies, no? And even then, the gatekeeper can take "appropiate measures to protect the integrity of the operating system".