“PS4 Jailbreak” mysterious dongle surfaces. Is it for real? [update:confirmed to be fake]
Interestingly, just one day after we wrote about the latest news about PS4 Jailbreak (or more precisely, how nothing is publicly available – or even announced – yet), a random post surfaced on our forums, with the following cryptic information:
New jailbreak dongle for ps4
#382857 by fagu
Mon Mar 09, 2015 3:37 amhttps://wololo.net/talk/viewtopic.php?p=382857
Garyopa and other guys from china are involved in a future ps4 jailbreak dongleI can say that is currently in testing. rgz
http : / /i (dot) imgur (dot) com / UE0Gagj.jpg
Cryptic, semi-random post by a user who just registered on the forums… this could be legit, but most likely experience tells us it isn’t.
Now, let’s have a look at the picture in question:
The picture actually looks as legit as can be. This looks like some sort of USB dongle, but what’s peculiar is that this picture yields absolutely no result on google. If this is a hoax, it’s elaborate enough: whoever did this didn’t just take a random picture on the internet, but actually went through the pain of uploading original content for that… (but I’ve done that too, remember when I hacked my PS3 with a ham&cheese sandwich?)
With that being said, GaryOPA (who’s indirectly involved with many of the dongle manufacturers on the PS3), specifically named in this post, told me personally he had no knowledge of this, or of any of the people he knows from the typical “dongle” manufacturers who would be working on such a thing.
This makes it likely to be an elaborate hoax then. But the question remains, of what this device actually is. Any ideas?
Update: well that was fast. Thanks to everyone who have looked for this, this turns out to be a USB key and has nothing to do with a jailbreak at all. The original picture can be found on this artsy website.
I have the PS4 Dongle LoL @frwololo @yifanlu @HackInformer pic.twitter.com/2hlGQNQH7E
— Nysek (@Raliuga977) March 10, 2015
@frwololo @yifanlu @HackInformer It’s a LaCie iamaKey USB
— Nysek (@Raliuga977) March 10, 2015
So there you go, just a plain old usb key with an interesting shape.
Maybe it’s a UFO? 😀
By the way, looks like my first “first” comment 😀 Apologies, I don’t mean to troll, just glad that by happy coincidence I have managed to post the first comment on an article, my first time ever.
Live long and prosper, all!
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https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/04/d8/1e/04d81ebc77bcb8d10b1cfd1c79503257.jpg
First! yahoo!
Apologies, Chosen One, if I usurp your place as first (my comments are awaiting moderation). Once, I posted “First” only for the page to reload and my comment was faaar from first…
http://4vector.com/thumb_data/afd-58882.jpg
Yeah of course its real, its 100% real, so are Unicorns…
It is real (hence the photo) but whether this one is a “unicorn” or a “genetically modified horse” remains to be seen 😀 … might just be a home made flash drive…
I have rode a unicorn, the are grey and big fat animals….
Well, “genetically modified horse” can be considered unicorn. But this is not unicorn, it’s donkey with funnel duct-taped to it’s head.
No, its not a donkey, it is bigger than a donkey and has a REAL horn
Jailbreak for ps4 brazilian method
https://youtu.be/4JFTmdhj3_Q
Not every day you get to see a random post made by a random user in a thread that has little hits… get to the front page.
True, that. Instant fame…
Put “Jailbreak” in the title and people will eat that *** as “true facts”.
its hard to belive that some one hacked ps4 or some thing.
It’s fake. Found this by googling the picture: http://www.someslashthings.com/
Another link to picture, and not the to the frontpage: http://www.someslashthings.com/online-magazine/2015/3/8/somefashion-parts-of-4-fallwinter-2015-2016
How is this a ps4 jailbreak? All it is is a pic and all that pic is of is a usb stick.
Its all fake and I just wasted 5 mins coming here and reading it.
Really…? You really think this was front-page worthy…? Ugh…
Hits, hits, hits……..
This is FAKE. I found the image online: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/52431224e4b090a5255220af/t/54fc10c7e4b056e88660d109/1425805527254/?format=500w
*shakes 8-ball*
Don’t count on it.
Best post in site history
Por que están tan preocupados de hacer un jailbreak por PS4 si PS3 superior a 2501 los tiene derrotados y no han podido romper la vulnerabilidad del PS3, y aqui los seguidores estamos jodidos, favor concentrarse más en el PS3.
Gracias.
Yeesh very sorry that this is only a fake Jail:(:(!
Either wololo is click baiting or get caught the bait himself lol..
idk if the photo is the real dongle or not… but the ps4 dongle exist, like the ps3 dongle it’s a sony support hardware for fix ps4
Any and all ps4 user friendly exploits will be released AFTER the next run of exclusives and blockbuster games like uncharted. There is a exploit in a cross save function and cloud save. It is patchable, and usefull for more exploite mining. After the next , major fw update *aka adds usefull **** stuff may or may not be pastebinned n3v0r 4g¡v3 nev0r 4g3t . I am the ÂN0Ň who installed debug fw on cecha 1001 in march 2008 and hid Cex2DEX out of spite of people like gregory rasputin. I support psjailbreak, trueblu, deank, and profiting off of pirats who claim “homebrew is freedom” bs
”I am the ÂN0Ň who installed debug fw on cecha 1001 in march 2008 and hid cex2dex out of spite of people like gregory rasputin”
lulz was that before or after you thought you could exploit the PS3 by using a dirty Blu Ray disc covered in thumb prints, oh how we all laughed at you on IRC, esspecially the video you created, showing the dirty thumb print covered Blu Ray disc and you explaining how you thought it could be used to hack the system
lol, dirty blue ray hack xD Thats even more stupid than the “iWave” scam a while back.
look like someone wanted to cash in and gain some cash and dash.
Wouldn’t be surprised if it was someone hoping to get away with it and hope that we don’t confirm the story or probably wanted to generated a lot of interest using that URL or just generating a lot of traffics.
Looks like a part of the ps4 charging dock to be honest like really
Like the nyko one
mysterious.. floating ORB!!
No greg it was after, as I was swapping hdds with dex fw mid update and got it to stick. I get u have a 1 track mind and I ask you gregoryrasputin, what have you ever done hacking wise ever besides being a moderator/news writer? Nothing. Have you ever modified a file with no tutorial? Did anything with psp or psvita or ps2 or ps1 hacking? No. You cant say you have ever been apart of the scene besides being a reporter.
Well, I keep the actual hackers motivated. If you know what I mean *wink wink*
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