Team Rebug started researching PS4 exploits
This almost went unnoticed: Team Rebug announced that they started working on PS4 hacks.
Team Rebug is well known in the PS3 scene for the very popular PS3 Custom Firmware of the same name. They had not been working on any other console so far. But in a note for their latest Rebug 4.76.1 release, the developers behind the PS3 Rebug CFW announced that they are now working on hacking the PS4.
The team is asking for help from people who have access to “confidential PS4 stuff”, and are also asking for donations (update: this ask has now been removed, see below).
On that topic, I’d personally suggest people to not donate in expectations for future releases, but rather to thank a given team for their past work. Team Rebug have delivered a lot for the Ps3 scene, but they’re no certainty they will ever release anything for the Ps4 at this point.
Update: To avoid any confusion on their intent, Team Rebug have removed the donations bit from their statement after we published this article.
This announce could also be just wishful thinking. Other “past” legends had announced they would be working on the PS4, and so far this hasn’t led to anything groundbreaking. but again, Team Rebug is extremely active on the PS3 scene and has delivered a lot, so let’s see what they can achieve on the PS4.
Team Rebug’s full statement, as can be found in the Rebug 4.76.1 Readme:
We also started researching PS4 exploits, if any of you have an access to confidential PS4 stuff, please send us an email
Also if you would like to help us speed up development on the PS4, please donate!
Donation link can be found on http://rebug.me[Note: the ask for donation has now been removed]
Fail0verflow showed a few weeks ago at the CCC event that the PS4 is not as secure as people thought, and they showcased Linux running on a PS4. Fail0verflow have clear goals to encourage indie development on the console while steering people away from piracy. On the other hand, it’s pretty clear based on their work on the PS3 that team rebug don’t have such concerns and would on the contrary favor hacks that enable piracy.
Follow all the news and latest status of PS4 hacking on our PS4 Jailbreak page.
Source: Rebug.me, via @sh21ab and logic-sunrise
The problem with rebug is that they “release” binaries, not source codes or patches. I would prefer if we provide patches and exploits not so that people can “install” stuff, but that they can tinker with it themselves and improve the work. They are just yet another closed society, for no reason. If they can release binaries, they can release information too.
PS: When they do. Even for the PS3, then they get my donations.
agreed
They do release things for free, though. No dongles or any of that DRM BS. I hear you on the closed source, but I would think they’d get a bunch of flack from users “tinkering” and ultimately bricking their consoles, blaming Rebug. Closed source also prevents people from confusing other or claiming they are official rebug releases.
A lot of these types of groups release sources when they are finished with the project.
I am convinced that you can make arguments that just about anything is somehow legitimate 🙂 I can see the issues you named, though I think they are minor and not actually worth the argument.
It’s a bit like MS, protecting you from the bad people by sending your downloads to their servers for “checking” them against viruses (smart screen) a giant cluster *** of a privacy invasion and literally almost as bad as anybody breaking into your PC (esp. in the age of snowden) … Or Apple along the same lines of shady consumer-friendly-backdoors and cloud uploads.
But to reply to the points you made:
– I could fake and redistribute a “rebug” without issue. I don’t even need their code. I just need to give you an update 😉 What prevents it, is their domain (official channel) 🙂
– People who tinker, brick sometimes. If you try it, it’s your chance. Add a red blinking warning (1996!), make it some in-the-back page nobody visits (not the fancy release page) or a git repo. Devs care, users don’t.
– They also use a ton of other peoples open work to make their product better – so not giving back at the same time seems like the wrong attitude.
– Releasing after the fact is fine (again I will donate) but the value and my interest decreases over time – not because it’s old, but because other people move on, so I got no others to do neat stuff with. I will backlog it, and never get to it. Meanwhile I could have improved it if I had been able to – and learned and had some fun … 🙁
– Also, a release after the fact is not as easy to grasp. If you had been there when it was created, you would have understood it better – because you can see the steps, trails, trials and errors 🙂 Look at the swift repo – you can literally see a language being created 🙂
So, while I like their work, I would hope, that they just simply work openly. Nobody will steal their thunder, and the other issues, well as said I don’t buy them 🙂
What a wonderful guy news, good job watery cfw hehehehehe 🙂
Piracy please
Actively working?? Oh yeah my ps3 4k is running 4.70 rebug!
That’s of your own fault, they’ve had 4.75 and 4.76(lite) for months…
Well 4k model ps3s cannot even use CFW
lol at derfs comment… not sure if trolling or dumb. 4k is never hacked beyond dongle cr4p… now this makes me think that $ony might release a new hardware after the ps4 has been cracked
They have also released 4.76.1 on 10/01/2016 lately!
So their going to release 4.76.1 on October 1st 2016 can’t wait. 😉
exciting news 🙂 , will be waiting for more to come 🙂
all my PS3 CFW are just rebug , awesome CFW , the best for me 😉
The best news of month (:
I can’t wait to install CFW Rebug in my ps4.
“but they’re no certainty”
Small typo here, fantastic read though. I hope REBUG gets decent donations.
How is donations going to speed up the developement?
buy more ps4 units to test on?
How does more units to test on result in faster development regarding finding an exploit?
More devs to test stuffs out?
Seems unlikely to me that they are able to hire in outside people to do extra work for them.
Or that people who have skills to hack the PS4 doesnt already have a PS4.
Well they can also buy pricey devkits to tinker with. You learn a lot from those debugging stations, since they weren’t intended to be in public hands.
That is plausible. If that is the case, i think that they should mention it specifically.
people that know how this stuff actually works don’t need to be told specifics because they can think for themselves and figure out by thought alone how donations can help with development
Money.
please rebug
first research auto rejuvenale
so i dont have to manuall update the lics
cuz i failz horribly.
in a usermode greasemonkey auto debug symbols devkit on psvitalink.be lolz
Would be cool to get Linux on ps4 with ps4 vr drivers working to for future development
so ps4 might get hacked and set up in a convenient way before the ps3. nice.
Did I miss something? When did Team Rebug any Hacking on the PS3?
Do you live under a rock? They have been the lead hackers of the ps3 scene for a few years now..
I wish them luck, still no need for ps4, but i’ll get one if they release cfw.
How Speed up? Buying PS4 console, hard disk games, raspberry etc etc. For investigate and for create a CFW!
I’ve lost 2 HD only for backup and load games!
Rebug is the best CFW on PS3 console!!!
And i believe that Rebug will be best CFW for PS4 console!!!
Habib Joniee Evilsperm and many more work in this team!
QA Flags for downgrade, CFW for retail en dex console, patch cobra, PSN… Do you remember?
Thanks guys for all!!!
This is great news! I loved all their previous releases and am appreciative of all the hard work put into it!
Fantastic news I was gonna update my ps4 but i’ll wait lol go team Rebug
lol@ a few ppl here auto expecting there will CFW on the ps4 just by reading this article
Not really. There will be cfw on the ps4. People shouldn’t get so excited over this post
Seems to me like they are trying to make some quick cash, don’t expect much from them
I have an exploit on the ps4 to download non-officiel psn content like to change the download link to something different when downloading something from the psn store how do I send this? I don’t know their email and I’m not a professional but i’m pretty sure someone can go really far with that exploit.
Send it on http://www.rebug.me page!
http://rebug.me/contact-us/ I found this is a post down there.
Rebug team is the best team that was able to create the most stable and versatile Cfw for PS3 . Hope to see their cfw for ps4.
here you can contact rebug
website: rebug.me/contact-us/
@Mymi
http://rebug.me/contact-us/ lol
If I won the billion powerball I would give a huge bounty prize on the team or person that jailbreaks the ps4
great news, I hope for now for ps4 cfw this year.
REBUG is awesome, its been the most stable CFW provider on PS3. I am sure they will do great on PS4 as well. If anyone from REBUG is reading this, no matter if you can ”hack PS4” or not, thanks a bunch for your past work guys.
But the real question is, how we play the games that are online only? For now are few games, but maybe in the future there will be more of them.
My brother works for sony in ps4 development section.
That’s nice.
Really? Show off or make up? Either way.. Keep it to yourself, ok ? 🙂
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