Claims of a 4.07 PS4 hardware hack surface
Hacking scene member xmax katsu published a couple of pictures claiming he has a PS4 Hardware hack that works on the PS4’s latest firmware 4.07.
Although he gave few details, the hack allegedly allows to bypass Serial number checks on the Flash memory and the HDD of the PS4. According to xmax katsu, this allows unlimited Primary account share on the PS4. In other words, one account could buy lots of PS4 games, then share this account (and the games associated to it) with an unlimited amount of “Friends”.
Account sharing tricks to enable piracy are not new and seem to be the only way to pirate games on the latest generation of consoles. This is reminiscent of the “brazilian PS4 jailbreak” or the “Indonesian Xbox One hack“, two techniques that allow a given account (and its games) to be shared more than officially allowed by Sony and Microsoft. “Entrepreneurs” across the globe monetize these techniques by selling consoles full of pirated games to their customers.
However, it is difficult to give any credibility to xmax katsu’s work lately. He has been very silent on twitter over the past months, and before that has a track record of various claims for hacks that never saw the light of day or turned out to not be working at all. Here again, the picture could be an elaborate hoax, or the hacker drawing conclusions too soon on some actual technical achievement (e.g. it is possible he has a way to bypass some serial number checks, but that he wrongly implies this could lead to infinite account sharing).
It would of course also be naive to think Sony do not monitor accounts with suspicious activity. Here again, unless you’re prepared to disconnect your PS4 from the network entirely, pirating would seem unwise, even if that technique actually works and gets released. (these two things already being a stretch).
Source: xmax katsu on twitter
Comparing what little I know about the PS4 vs the hardware I see here, IF it is real, its probably a extended version of that Brazilian “Jailbreak”, using Dual-nand and HDD Image mounting. but knowing the source, it’s probably just a bunch of *** glued on in a normal PS4 with a cable jammed in the hole and a Uncased USB drive plugged into a RasPi
Exactly what I was thinking – a bunch of random *** glued together
First^^
nooooooooooo -.-
Fail, its okay u can cry.
Sub to wololo on twitter, there is usually a ~5 minute gap between Wo tweeting the post and the post becoming visible on wololo proper. maybe then you’ll someday be first. 😉
Haha. Victim!
It looks fake and stupid
Stop looking at youself and get back to this topic about a raspberry pie and a bunch of cables being rammed into a PS4
xmax katsu you are our new hope. Those w**kers at fa*lOv*rf1ow are bunch of attention seeking h0m05. Please share your work.
those “w**kers” at least release what they do to the public and have creditibility 😛
Uhhhh……..They have an exploit they wont disclose…….I guess you forgot that huh?
They did disclose their PS3 “exploit” (the private key epic fail) and we all know how that went…
Are you sure you even know who you’re talking about? lol is mentioning failoverflow as though they disclosed everything they’ve done for the ps4. We’re far beyond ps3 so I got no idea what bringing that up is proving.
Second linux will and always has been overshadowed on every homebrew scene it’s been on. Used for a lil bit, then bye bye after sdks built from scratch surface. This linux nonsense on ps4 wont be any different. However I’m not so ignorant to not acknoweledge that it’s an open gateway for future homebrew on ps4. Just team failoverflow is holding everything back by keeping an exploit to themselves while sony keeps putting out more fw updates that might patch any and all chances the scene has to progress. They aren’t stupid. Part of their updates goes to covering up exploit holes they know are there, but whether or not, they pertain to any exploit in the here and now is anyones guess.
The basic meaning of this is failoverflow is sc*** over the scene while everyone will just look past it and probably update beyond 4.05 so they can play the newest and latest games requiring firmwares higher than 4.05., cause what’s the point of holding off on the exploit release when sony might already have patched it in firmwares beyond 4.05? They read what we read. No doubt they’re aware someone found out about it, and know some of the clues failoverflow said caused their exploit. Again…..Sony isn’t stupid…..failoverflow waiting on this *** is.
Please don’t delete the below post. I know it’s not what wololo staff wants to see and seems to hate anyone talking trash about failoverflow, but why hide the truth about what is always happening, and will happen? I mean heck we’re 2 updates beyond failoverflows 4.05 exploit with no guarantee the exploit works on them. Why hide the fact failoverflow is actively holding back the scene by not releasing an exploit while it’s still viable and there’s interest in it?
uh huh when wololo himself can’t vouch his credibility, sorry xmax katsu is just a liar..
*his = xmax katsu
This guy makes this kinda claim every few months. There’s a list on pastebin of all his nonsense–>
http://pastebin.com/bDkatCpE and here’s a well known researcher in the Vita Epoch debunking his vita hdmi out fakery–> http://me.axeyworks.com/myself-the-vita-video-out/ . Here’s another, “hybrid firmware” (never showed any evidence of it being legit–> http://wololo.net/2015/07/17/xmax-katsu-teases-hybrid-firmware-ps-vita/ . Im not trying to be a ***, but when somebody with this history makes a claim, they need to show some evidence. Weve been seeing this same stuff for years. Check his youtube channel, he’s got piles of hoaxed “discoveries” in the past 5 years or so.
They don’t release jack ***, *** are you talking about? Check your fact before you post a steaming dump of elephant ***.
“Those w**kers at fa*lOv*rf1ow”
^^^^^^ Dear oh dear, another warez hungry kid. Give me strength FFS…
Exactly. “Scene drama” my ***, you were peer-pressured like a little ***!
fail0verflow released the linux & amd drivers for PS4. It’s up to the community to find the xploit.
Primeiro
Wow, I was actually thrilled until I saw xmas katsu there. Doubt that he’s going to deliver anything.
Same. I read the article until his name was mentioned, then kinda lost hope. Will keep my fingers crossed, but won’t hold my breath.
hdmi vita… we remember
Double that with his ” Vita NAND pinouts” too -.-
we don’t want hack anymore leave us with all of your bulshit releases.
xmax katsu another man-child in the same league as fail0verfl0w, why the heck do you even post this news if it hasn’t turn to be true, considering the person’s track record
Were any of his claims been real ever? Why even post him?
It looks fake
With that soldering experience… why the ps4 still working… i have seen a lot of bad soldering there…
Hahaha
the problem with this generation is hackers talk too much, it’s how sony blocked vulnerabilities. I fear now it’s to late to hack the ps4.
… An abomination draws near…
->Fight
->Spell
->Item
=>Turn around and laugh while you walk away!
I have the same sata data cable Hahahhahaha xD the old days