Just my 2 cents: The brazilian PS4 Jailbreak
As a brazilian myself and as a guest blogger here, I feel I have the responsibility to share what I know, think and feel about it. First of all, a full translation (with some grammatical, semantical, punctuation and verbal corrections) of what this company is claiming:
“Good afternoon friends, customers and partners. Here we are to humbly ask everybody to please stop asking about our training on our PS4 games installation system, since we are the pioneers here in Brazil to develop and deploy this solution in a 100% working state, without any help from here inside Brazil nor worldwide. We are proud about the huge demand and about how many people have been trying to reach us about our solution. Thanks for all the trust placed on our work.
Sadly we will only share our knowledge with 12 trusted business partners and retailers spread over the country.
About our fees to insert the game on your console, we will be posting the prices next week so everybody can check them out. About our solution, we are only waiting for 3 more retailers to confirm, so we can launch our product. We sincerely apologize to anyone who has been left out, but it’s the only way we can preserve our hard work, since everything that gets too much attention sometimes are bad in the long term for the community.That being said, thanks for all the love and recognition for this awesome work, that was made for you friends, players, customers and videogame-addicted fellows, kkkk (a brbrhuehue informal laugh).”
Please keep in mind that I tried my best to correct everything that I could from the original, that was kinda messy.
Right from the start, let me say that a REALLY don’t believe in the legitimacy of their claims (at least not that they are the authors), but probably not for the same reasons as most. There are a couple of reasons why I think that this is just a publicity stunt.
First of all, as I already mentioned, the text is written in a very poor portuguese (my fellow brazilian readers will mostly agree). People here in Brazil who would have the knowledge and resources to back such claims up, wouldn’t write this way. It was clearly written by a semi-illiterate amateur. Some parts barely make sense, like how can they be “proud about the demand”? Really? People here with the resources and knowledge to do what they claim would have written and elaborated much better. Also, any serious company would not only post a demonstration video, but would also have used a proper website, not a Facebook page.
It’s worth mentioning that people with the skill needed to do such things are very well paid around here doing corporate jobs and it’s unlikely that such people would want to have their name associated with piracy (not hacking) in that form.
Another point is that this “business model” is unheard of: to outsource piracy to retailers and openly advertise it. Although piracy is still rampant around here, it’s kind of a gray market . Even people who sell piracy won’t openly advertise that as piracy, they sell it as “brindes” (loosely translated as bonuses). Here in their annoucement they are claiming to do way more than enabling people to pirate themselves, they are charging people to pirate for them, which is a direct violation of pretty much any EULA, unlike modchips and softmods. Sony is officially here in Brazil, so I doubt that they could sell their “product” without a lawsuit or two on their backs. It’s very funny how trying to stop people to pirate their piracy is exactly what would put them in legal trouble.
Now a little more personal note. As I read in a previous article, many people on comments discredited the said “solution” simply because they showed a (stock) raspiberry image and because “Brazil wouldn’t have the resources to make such a thing”.
Although they used a stock image from google (a fact which I bet few people who criticized knew), the raspberry picture alone doesn’t necessarily mean its a hoax, and here is why: Just now, we got an exploit triggered by a multiplayer game, where a PSVITA connect to a previously hacked device. Although it seriously doubt it will ever be done (and that it’s worth the trouble, since there will probably be an update to block such exploit), the hacked “server” device could be replaced by any device running a software that use emulate the packets sent by the server (considering they are not encrypted) by sniffing the packets and reverse-engineering the packets sent back.
Obviously it would easier (and cheaper) to make such daemon to run on a windows/linux/mac, so everybody could download and use it. But remember that we are talking by a company who is trying to make money, so it would make perfect sense for them to use a raspberry (or even an arduino, if possible) to make an appliance just to run the exploit. It wouldn’t be the first known hardware to exist only to enforce some kind of DRM (as many ps3 dongles). So, the same principle could be applied to the PS4, where it connects to a server through some service already available on the console (like Netflix, a cheap game or whatever) and trigger an exploit. Hacking is about thinking out of the box, so people shouldn’t be so avid to dismiss something just because it’s different.
The second statement about our “lack of resources” is that what actually made me write this article. Quite often I avoid telling people on the internet that I’m brazilian. I think that it was not until today that Wololo learnt that. That’s because I will be the first to admit that we brazilians as a whole can be very impolite, uneducated and ignorant, specially when it comes to netiquette (brbrbrhuehuehue). For instance, when I played MMOs in my teenager years, I tried to hide for as long as I could from other players where I came from, such was (and still is) our reputation online and offline. But let me tell you, we are not all like this:
For that and many other reasons I am not a patriot at all, but it is also ignorant, uneducated and a little racist to claim that we could not make such things. What resources don’t we have? Most modern console hacks are software exploits, and that (great software developers) we have a lot around here. I have at least 5 close friends and acquaintances that are working om companies like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, IBM and Unity to name a few. There are brazilian Linux kernel developers and maintainers. There are a lot of brazilian companies thriving on TI. And the list goes on….
I myself got my bachelors degree com computer science on a highly regarded (and free) university and I don’t like to brag, but I have knowledge on quite a few technologies like Linux server, python, ruby,rails, C, C#, Assembly, Postgresql and many others. Being brazilian (or any nationality, for that matter) doesn’t make me less capable of learning any of those.
I’m not trying to start a patriotic flame wars here, as we are all gamers, developers, hackers and videogame lovers regardless of nationality, so please let’s try to be more positive.
Ummm, I’d just like to point out that it’s very weak-minded and gutless IMO to try and prove your point about being a decent human being with theory. They are all poor excuses, wussy-talk. No one should be ashamed or afraid to tell their nationality, as this only MANTAINS the status quo that all BRs are HU3tarded. YOU’RE being racist, pal, YOU have a mutt syndrome. Prove your point with ACTION, not words, pal. BE a nice person, don’t tell people you are.
Please note that I’m not trying to be rude; on the contrary, I’m here to tell you that I never was, or by that matter ever will, be ashamed to tell I’m BR. Like, who the *** cares? If someone starts being an *** with me because of my birthplace, then who’s the jerk? Who’s hu3tarded? Them, not me.
So stop with your poor victim syndrome and with the begging ‘oh plz don’t dislike me bacause I’m BR, see, I’m a learned monkey, I can even code’. You should have the *** to stand for yourself. Being BR is not a shame. Haters gonna hate.
Peace.
for god’s sake.. stop calling it as a jailbreak…. in the BEST BEST scenario it can be called of: how to transfer and run games using “ghost” accounts on an retail ps4… this is what the did (in the best best best scenerio ever)…. it is not a hack… and not a jailbreak at all…. end
Belíssimo post, assim mesmo que me sinto .
Os gringos estão nervosinhos porque um Hue Hue BRBR desbloqueou o PS4?!?!
hahahahahaha
Xbox One, você é o próximo!
Quer entender meu comentário vai lá no google e traduz!
Im brazilian and i live near the store (same neighboorhood) of the arcticle. Its a little store that repairs consoles and unblock consoles too. They are good on it, but i dont know if they have the skills to produce a jailbreak. In Brazil we have a lot of people with skills that could do that, but thinking of the dudes of the store, and what they do, they only reproduces the jailbreaks leaked on internet.
What i thought its happening is that they discover a bug in the psn accounts, and its using this to install the games in the ps4’s of other people, its a nice discover, but is not a jailbreak.
But im not sure what they have, i will call they to ask for this unblock or maybe walk in their store to know what this is.
да не прошьют Ps4 полноценно в ближайшиее года 3 только лицензия Ps4
http://www.igrodnepr.com.ua/
да и без интернета Ps4 не интересна , самое интересное в PS4 это Online
http://www.igrodnepr.com.ua/
Playstation 4 with jailbreak for sale in the Brazilian auction site.
http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-652380523-ps4-desbloq-ja-com-10-jogos-100-garantido-_JM#questionText
I went to the Medic Game Facebook’s page and I didn’t find anything about Playstation 4 JB news, or they did a long time ago to call people’s attention (marketing), or its fake (probably), or they deleted (seems like it), or they have lack of information from the actual developer.
It’s “legit” to an extent but as of 2.51 it causes a perma brick and only Sony can fix this for the low low price of $300 USD. It was patched as of 2.50, which caused no bricks but doing so in 2.51 causes your PS4 to become a paper weight. SKFU tried this and worked post 2.50 firmwares as of 2.50 was patched and 2.51 SKFU wound up with a bricked PS4 he had to send back. It was nothing more then a vulnerability with game sharing. One had to buy the game then dump the NAND and then on a second unit flash over the NAND dump of the first system. As said it has been fixed and was no real hack only an over sight by Sony.
is real man
tenho 1 desses aqui em casa funciona perfeitamente!
and actually I live here in Brazil have several games in the game and works perfectly even on line etc.