PS Vita Exploit confirmed, HBL on its way

Last week, an exploit on the PS Vita through the PSP emulator was announced by Mamosuke. The exploit was found by Teck4, and, we won’t stress it enough, is a PSP exploit that gives us user mode access within the PSP emulator on the Vita. So this is not a Vita exploit per se, but it’s still very cool. Mamosuke confirmed this with a video a few days agoWololo Proof on the exploit

WololoI spent a good amount of time today confirming some of my hopes that it will be possible to run HBL, at least to some extent, with that exploit. It doesn’t mean I have ported HBL to the Vita yet, but I have strong hopes this will be possible. A handful of hackers are working on bringing HBL to the Vita (I won’t mention their names here as I don’t know if they want to be contacted on the subject), and it should be “relatively” easy to get something to work fairly soon. (It should be noted though that the Vita is quite sensitive and crashed on me several times when it went into “sleep” mode from the exploit screen… from there – am I just paranoid? – it seems it is impossible to reboot the machine for almost 10 minutes, which made me think I had bricked my vita… could it be a anti-hacking security? If the console detects several crashes, it takes longer to boot, in order to prevent brusteforce types of attacks?)I won’t discuss any release yet, it doesn’t depend on me only (this is, after all, Teck4′s exploit), but if I have my opinion to give on the subject, I would suggest to wait until the Vita is released in Europe and in the US. This gives us some time to polish HBL on this device, and hopefully the vulnerabilities we use to run HBL won’t have been patched by then.This is of course just a challenge with little to no practical interest… once we publicly reveal the exploit (in particular, the game used in it), it will be extremely easy for Sony to patch it (or remove the game from the Playstation Store), so probably only a few people will be able to benefit from it… but only time will tell, there is still hope, after all, that Sony doesn’t care about a tool that allows us to run user mode psp homebrews in a sandboxed emulator.

Joel16*

xD, and it is just released in Japan and already hacked. How dare you Sony fanboys say that the 3DS security fails

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Betting half of my points you're wishing for that.Not buying Vita until it gets older. They'll patch that up with updates in no time. Which I hope they never do.

Well, I don't really care if the 3DS gets fully hacked before the PS Vita or the other way around. It is the fact that systems can be hacked so easy these days.

alexong96 · #3Betting half of my points you're wishing for that.Not buying Vita until it gets older. They'll patch that up with updates in no time. Which I hope they never do.

Jonez001 · #2xD, and it is just released in Japan and already hacked. How dare you Sony fanboys say that the 3DS security fails

Nintendo its 3DS got hacked in less than a week. Nintendo was bragging about its security, Sony didn't.
You're a nintendo fanboy.
Stop laughing at other people.

i Definitely am not a Sony fan boy!In fact I hate Sony because they didn't make the great releases what i wanted for psp!Im more of nintendo fan, i mean i love what sony has ps3 the graphics
but nintendo has the gaming, its more fun to meAnd Definetly looking forward for the psvita cfw , with that I may just buy oneor if 3DS gets Hacked then im gonna go for the 3DS, but if it is a flashcart hack then im not

Why wouldn't you want a 3DS flashcart? It's almost the same as using a memory stick in the PSP for loading games

Joel16 · #6In fact I hate Sony because they didn't make the great releases what i wanted for psp!

you realise that most games are made by 3rd parties and therefore it has nothing to do with sony?

athemoe · #5Nintendo its 3DS got hacked in less than a week. Nintendo was bragging about its security, Sony didn't.
You're a nintendo fanboy.
Stop laughing at other people.

Well, not fully hacked like you can play 3DS roms on it. And I am not laughing at people. I am kinda laughing at Sony. They should be ashamed. I expected after the fiasco with the hack begin this year... the would know how to protect their systems more from hackers.Hackers aren't really the same as pirates but they are the same kind. I didn't say that Nintendo's security was better. Hell no, like you pointed out you could play DS roms rather fast on it. But I think that the Sony fanboys who laugh at the 3DS now have no right to do so because the same could been done to their system.

-Jonez-Well, not fully hacked like you can play 3DS roms on it. And I am not laughing at people. I am kinda laughing at Sony. She should be ashamed. I expected after the fiasco with the hack begin this year... the would know how to protect their systems more from hackers.

I would say they couldn't. They had done the VITA when they had the hack. As long as the PS3 doesn't get hacked, I'm happy.

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It PS3 is hacked. But no softmodding AFAIK

necr0 · #10I would say they couldn't. They had done the VITA when they had the hack. As long as the PS3 doesn't get hacked, I'm happy.

ps3 has been hacked for a good while now. In fairness it did take a long time to do so.

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it has custom firmware same as PSP

Thanks Loony. I learned something today ~

It's been hacked? Wow, I thought it hadn't been.Oh. and thanks -Jonez-. It modded my Wii last night. Now playing Mario Kart for free :)

i moded my wii two but i can only use usbloader gx but i dont know how. also the vita is not hacked yet. It will be, Im sure

Everything will be hacked.
Remember this: The consoles were made by humans, so it can be hacked by humans.

Jonez001 · #11It PS3 is hacked. But no softmodding AFAIK

Bzzzt. Wrong.

Jonez001 · #9But I think that the Sony fanboys who laugh at the 3DS now have no right to do so because the same could been done to their system.

Well, it's not fair that Sony fanboys should be the only one to shut up, no? Same could apply to Nintendo fanboys.Stop referencing obsessive fanboys. No one showed up even now.

athemoe · #16Everything will be hacked.
Remember this: The consoles were made by humans, so it can be hacked by humans.

>Sony
>Humans
>Oxymoron

My question is why jump to conclusions about everything? Time tells all tales.

lol none too bright, are we? The Hello World exploit was found through PSP mode. This is basically like how certain DS flash carts work on the 3DS, in DS mode. The methods for the old remain the same, but nobody knows how to crack the new yet. I skimmed Wololo's explanation a few days ago, closer to a week now, and he states this is not an avenue to hack the actual Vita. Nobody knows quite where to start with that one.