Yeah I checked the twitter profiles of the two people mentioned, one doesnt talk about it at all and the other says it's not what people think and it won't enable CFW.

AI nonsense.

Yeah agreed especially further down when it's just randomly rehashing old history. It's also mixing up decryption and verification even in the beginning of the article. First they write:

BootROM (Level 0): The CPU runs code burned into it at the factory. This code is immutable (cannot be changed). It uses the ROM Keys to verify the signature of the next loader.

Then just two paragraphs below:

The ROM Keys change everything. With these keys, hackers can decrypt the Level 1 Bootloader.

So which is it? Usually bootloaders in a chain hash the next stage. That hash is compared with the signed hash the stage presents, and the signature on the signed hash is cryptographically verified against the locally stored trusted keys. No encryption or decryption takes place. Maybe this is different for the PS5 but then that would be noteworthy, not something you just assume readers to know.

And EU is pounding Apple to get 3rd party app stores on its platform.

Meanwhile at Sony:

Yeah, this is a boon for the end user, and a loss for rootkit distributor Sony.

That is already possible, but the hacks to get it actually to run are quite annoying and limited to a few older versions AFAIK.

Hopefully with this you can just boot Linux normally on a PS5 in the nearish future. Would definitely make for a nice Steam Machine.

I think it's just the amount of love for game consoles is much higher than phones, where people are a bit complacent.

I do agree it should happen more often.

Consoles have extremely limited variations, less variables to mess with. A ps5 is a ps5, but a Samsung Galaxy 25 isn't the same as a Samsung Galaxy FE25

As someone else pointed out, there's a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different "Samsung Galaxy ...." did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6

That's 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there's a handful of models of "PS5" standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It's a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii's security was literally beaten by tweezers

Good news, a new exploit has been recently found that can unlock the boot loader of several older Sony phones, even the Japanese models which were not unlockable until the discovery!

xperable - Xperia ABL fastboot Exploit [CVE-2021-1931]

Sony isn't even cooked, man. Piracy is a non issue to the bottom line. The Switch had this plus fully functional pirate installers in like, month 2 and Nintendo still sold a morbillion copies of TOTK despite all the hackable consoles on the market (and the maturity of emulators)

It's really not. Literally the same thing happened with the PS3, arguably that was much worse and it didn't cook Sony at all.

Competitive multiplayer games are already cooked on Playstation anyways since a lot of console cheaters use Cronus on PS4s that can't detect it.

Why? Other than allowing piracy and home brew stuff what does this mean?

With open architecture, it should be possible for Linux on a ps5 to be just as good as ps5 software for taking advantage of the hardware.

It's why open hardware is the next hurdle. It's already starting to happen with routers and open drivers but it's far from as good for open cpus etc.

With open hardware, we could start to eliminate security concerns about using American/Chinese/whatever hardware or software as it could all be verified. I think it's partly why Linux is gaining steam. An open background allows anyone to build on what's come before. Proprietary stuff only allows those with access to improve or start from scratch.

Linux is more mature and so building on the past builds new features, where windows can only lock down and try to gain revenue. They know they are losing. I am wondering if this is part of the push for ai as it would be harder to run at home. Not forever though.

We barely turned our PS5 on until about a year and a half ago, it was the Switch that was getting all our love. Now we have a Switch 2 we barely touch and the PS5 gets attention cause games are on sale (nobody bought it lol)

I do PC game, but I prefer console because there's WAY less fiddling and tinkering due to hardware issues or shitty game ports. I was excited for the FFVII steam sale until I saw the reviews complaining about stuttering and performance issues. I prefer a painless, boot-it-up-and-play-immediately experience over modding capability.