Following the
PS4 Kernel Exploit, today PlayStation 4 developer
CTurt announced he plans to completely stop further PS4 research.
This news comes just prior to him sharing an article outlining
PS4 kernel exploitation earlier today here:
Hacking the PS4, Part 3 /
Kernel Exploit for 1.76 / PS4-BadIRET (Private Repo)
From IRC:
[Delevler] hello all
[yifanlu] hello
[Delevler] Came here to ask if the ps4 kernel exploit is some real threat or just some patched old firmware
garbage?
[yifanlu] "threat" to whom?
[yifanlu] to sony, it's a real threat
[yifanlu] because it allows hackers to decrypt stuff and reverse it
[yifanlu] but yes, it's been patched since 2.x
[Delevler] so the person who recently said that he has "jailbraken" the ps4 just wanted to get famous or what
[yifanlu] I mean of course. we all know CTurt, right

[Delevler] oh he is here in chat , didnt notice
[CTurt] I am such an attention female dog
[CTurt] I hate it
[yifanlu] lol
[CTurt] I need to behave myself
[yifanlu] but yeah, it's useful for us devs but not really to any users
[Delevler] heh sorry i didn't want to offend you but I just couldnt find appriorate words how to say it
[Delevler] I know it opens a new gate for the devs but I wanted to know if it's something like the ps3
jailbreak
[yifanlu] badiret has been patched in freebsd for a while now. they forgot to post a security advisory so
sony never ported the changes
[yifanlu] which is funny because sony chose to fork an old freebsd version and manually put patches in
[yifanlu] I mean yeah sure, you can run backup games if you can get it working
[hykem] You can decrypt anything but no keys though, guess we could call it a jailbreak without the k and add
it a d for decryption
[hykem] Jailbread
[yifanlu] yum
[yifanlu] I mean that's pretty much the case on 3ds too
[yifanlu] we get a nice black box for decryption
[hykem] Yeah, but 3DS's jailbread is tastier
[HelsAngel] and fully 3d
[hykem]

[hykem] Anyway, with the current hardware crypto solutions, this will probably be the...