No more Vita exploits?
Over the past year, we’ve seen a continuous stream of exploits releases (almost one per month since April last year), and even 2 kernel (psp) exploits. But it seems the trend has stopped, with no new major announcement on the horizon. TomTomDu80 has a psp user mode exploit, which he ported to VHBL, but most likely no plan to release it for 2.05 (or that would have happened already).
There are still many usermode exploits avaliable on the psp emulator, but it is likely that porting most of them to VHBL is either difficult or impossible. It is also possible the people with the skills to do so don’t think it’s worth it anymore. Unlocking homebrew features of the PSP emulator is fun (and it feels “clean” too, as it is definitely not impacting Sony’s major business), but I know lots of you are waiting for a native PS Vita hack, and some hackers probably feel the same.
On that front, there’s currently two major leads. One is YifanLu’s UVL (although this seems to have been on a pause for quite some time now), and SKFU’s own work which we described here. (And we still have to see this one with our own eyes). Hope is here, but there is no telling how long it will take before we see a release for any of those. In both cases, the authors put in balance the hight risk of Sony fixing the Vita’s firmware as soon as the exploit is out, which would make it mostly useless (per opposition to, for example, keeping the exploit secret and use it to investigate the console’s internals a bit more).
Sony has done a great job at securing the Vita, even though the customers are sometimes the ones who pay the price of that increased security. No system is 100% secure, but I would say we’re reaching a point where the amount of time and knowledge required to hack Sony’s consoles makes it now difficult for your typical “hobbyist” to make it through. Just like the PS3 scene got crippled by money-centric solutions, I wouldn’t be surprised if dongle types of hack surfaced one of these days for the Vita. In hindsight I don’t think this (or the PS3 dongles) has to do with hackers greediness, but we’ve reached a point where only a money-backed solution would allow devs to spend the right amount of time and energy into hacking modern devices. Not that I’m happy with this, but I think the days of simple buffer overflows, and being able to execute whatever binary we want in the ram are behind us.
Do you think we’ll see a hacking breakthrough for the vita in 2013?
Funny cause I just finshed Persona 4 Golden today which is the only reason to even own a vita. Looked at the upcoming games list and there is nothing. Keeping it around for the exploit potential was my last hope but I think its now time to sell it off
What the f*ck man?
Maybe wait for 3013. If we’re still alive and Sony is still in the portable handheld market I’m sure they can make all that junk.
I got my from gamestop on 2.00 upgraded before i knew of the ecfw… but i dont mind waiting, i am willing to bet that the guy will release the vhbl port within 2 weeks if sony remains silent and people request. also there should be a more incognito way of announcing these cfw and such. im sure sony keeps track of these websites.
I’m sure it wouldn’t matter. The only way would be to not release the exploit to the public at all… but that would kind of defeat the purpose of all this, wouldn’t it?
Even if you somehow managed to keep this website a secret from Sony. There’s always some as*hole that downloads & reports the exploit to Sony.
mostly its some *** thinking hey hidden files, I probably don’t need them, or use my “haxor office” skills to haxor it, and end up bricking there console.
I’m following the scene cause I hope they will break it once a again (this dude will be sc***), but the possibility’s will be there again. (ARM is a big, big medium!)
Hmm Is this possible? I dont know if anyone here remebers or knows about how the nds hacking scene used to be really big, they had custom made flashkarts that were hard disk replicas of a normal ds games that could contain custom firmwares allowing homebrew and even actual roms can. this be done to the vita by creating our own exploitable game or putting the custom firmware itself onto a hard disk?
Hmm Is this possible? I dont know if anyone here remebers or knows about how the nds hacking scene used to be really big, they had custom made flashkarts that were hard disk replicas of a normal ds games that could contain custom firmwares allowing homebrew and even actual roms can. this be done to the vita by creating our own exploitable game or putting the custom firmware itself onto a hard disk
sorry for the double post i thought the first one didnt send
I say heck no LEAVE PSVITA ALONE. All you doing is making Sony more mad at removing games we coulda buy and dl. I blame wololo FOR ALL THIS *** Why don’t you hack some iphones and androids instead (Just like dashhacks) So shutdown this page and whatever server keeping this one and let SONY BE AT 100% Secure
Lol yeah… Get your facts straight, I didnt work on any vita hacks directly in almost a year. You could shut me and my website down, there would still be dozens of people hacking the vita. We just convey the news here 🙂
Uh that’s your website not mine, like I said before go hack something else. Lier
Haha, I don’t know what you’re getting at Uncharted lord but the people here try to support Sony and the PS Vita. Most of the people here have the hardware. And you should know that you have to buy games in order to play them on your Vita, right?
Honestly, all I want is a gameboy advance emulator. Is that too much to ask for? 😛
‘Coz Shield runs on Android it allows easy hacking.’ <– suspect pirate…?
'Am greatly disappointed for getting Vita.' <– disappointed pirate…?
'Hope good days for 😆 “FREEDOM GAMING” is Soon !!!' <– pirate alert.
pirate city bi*ch, pirate pirate city b*tch
10, 10, 10, 20 dollars? that's silly bi*ch
100 dollars in my hand?
yea fu*k this.
I'm so cheap, sony don't know who they f*cking with.
Can I just say what a relief to uncover someone that actually knows what they
are discussing on the net. You certainly know how to
bring a problem to light and make it important. More and more people need to read this and understand
this side of the story. I can’t believe you’re not more popular since you surely
have the gift.