However, this was shown at the Chaos Communication Congress, an annual meeting of the international hacker scene, organized by the well known Chaos Computer Club. It was shown during one of the "Lightning Talks", a daily event that consists of one hour of several short (limited to 5mins) talks.
Here is the video...
As proof that this was actually shown at 23C3, you can check out this link. Under "Day 4 - December 30th" is "Console Hacking Suprise (XBox360)", with the description "The XBox360 was live hacked in front of the audience - running Linux and Mac OS coming soon. Stay tuned - a Linux kernel is already booting.."
You can also download the 560MB WMV video of the complete Lightning Talks Day4 presentation from this link.
PS3 Exploited?
This is older news and no doubt the PS3 enthusiasts here have already read about it and discussed it. We reported that PS3 games can be dumped and that titles are already available on BitTorrent sites and on Usenet. In the NFO file for the release MotorStorm_JAP_PS3-PARADOX, there were some interesting notes made by PDX.
| cOMPANY : SCEI | rELEASE DATE : 27 Dec 2006 |The important part to see here is the "pLAYABLE : Yes they are ;-)" claim but even more interesting is a further hint that was given...
| sYSTEM : PlayStation 3 | sIZE : 120 x 100mb |
| tYPE : Racing | vIDEO MODE : NTSC/JAP |
| sUPPLIER : Huey Lewis | cRACKER : Wireless B/G? |
| mEDIA : Blu-Ray | pLAYABLE : Yes they are ;-)|
| sPECIAL nOTE: |It will be interesting to see what comes of this.
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| Happy new year to all members who helped in the past and present! |
| And a question to all, is there a bug in the system software from |
| the playStation 3(R) Yes there is ;-) Nothing to add more.. |
Another item that we forgot to mention over the holidays is the unlocking of the PSX emulator on the PlayStation Portable by using the 3.02 OEB custom firmware from Dark_Alex. The custom firmware allows for games that are not available at the PlayStation store to be played and the "Popstation" utility easily converts PSX game ISOs to a proper Eboot for the PSP system. I felt like, even though this is old news and there are quite a lot of threads in our forums about it, it had to be mentioned. For the record, I have been thoroughly enjoying it.
If I missed any further updates or bigger developments, my apologies. Happy New Year.