The very last layer of PSVita's security has been defeated
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http://wololo.net/2019/02/24/ps-vita-a-6-year-hacking-journey-comes-to-an-end-as-the-very-last-layer-of-the-vita-crypto-security-is-defeated/
Just in time for the end of production, too.
My god even the page is tremoring with excitement
This trembling is giving me a headache.
That's the 3054356 someone has made that joke, just stop
can these please be bannable
Cool, I was actually planning to get Vita, they're really cheap here. Bet there's gonna be more interesting homebrew emulators.
I seriously believe the reason the Vita died was it's proprietary expandable storage solution
can it please be fixed
Extremely unlikely that Garry will resume with any more development on the forums
Then give it to someone who will.
cost-prohibitive for intellectual property reasons, if the entire back-archive of posts is to remain with the site.
we're pretty off-topic though.
I believe there's a few adapters for the Vita's Memory card slot that lets it take Micro SD cards
As a former owner, I put the blame more on having not enough killer games for it and Sony giving up on it fairly quickly.
Holy shit.
Kinda off topic but following this up with actually something interesting
Mozilla actually combated this, as of Firefox 66 (Beta)
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/1755/78609e10-39a6-4e3b-ac7f-3fc7ff31aa63/image.png
I can't believe Mozilla fixed the forums 👀❗
Maybe things are different now, but when I hacked mine, an existing memory card was needed to install CFW and in turn load the necessary drivers to use an SD2VITA.
Still, it's a hell of a lot cheaper getting a 4GB Vita memory card, an SD2V, and a microSD to go with it than getting a decently sized memory card.
This probably would have been before we had access to ur0, which is just internal memory.
The Vita 1000 models claim they have no internal memory, but there's 2GB sitting in there that's not even used for anything
You need it for the 1000 model, but later models came with internal memory built in, so you don't need it for those.
Here's a crazy idea: Fix the bug and we won't be able to.
Like mods can do anything about it. Only Garry would have access to that, and he doesn't want to work on anything related to this forum
I don't understand why Sony shafted the Vita so hard. The psp was great, even with it's faults. Then they spent all that money and time into developing a new, stronger model that's better in literally every way and just... Did nothing with it. Millions down the drain for no reason. It's not like there isn't a want for mobile consoles anymore, we all know how popular Switches and even the DS still are.
I don't get it.
It really saddens me that so little came of the Vita. It was my first hand-held console since the Gameboy and I thought for sure it'd sell me on the concept, but all I've been using it for is basically a slightly better Monster Hunter platform on the go.
I remember asking around forums for which games to get and finding not so much recommendations as cautions against which games to not waste money on. It mystifies me how a fancy new game console could have so little going for it.
Can't remember who made this, but it's a bit of CSS to fix the shaking, just stick it in custom CSS
.ec_iframely_root .ec_iframely .iframely-embed {overflow: hidden;}
I recently picked up a used Vita and homebrewed it and it's loads of fun honestly. If Sony didn't abandon it so early I really could see the Vita having become a kinda "Sony Switch" years before the actual Switch. (The mystery port on the top of the 1000 models was probably a video out)
Though these days you can use plugins to "overclock" for better fps and stream video out of USB, pair it with bluetooth controller plugins and you basically have that just as the homebrew edition.
Just an fyi for everyone in the thread: going full-width in your preferences on FP will fix the shaking. I haven't seen it once since going full-width like a few months ago.
You can use MLThaku as an initial exploit to load it into ur0
Then there's some additional fuckery to get the console off of MLThaku into a proper henkaku
then fix the bug?
How about you go directly to garry to ask him to fix the bug, see what happens. rip
On the thread topic, I never owned a Vita, but maaaybe in the not too distant future... it's fun making technology yours. I once ssh'd into a PS2 that my friend had set up an official Linux kit on, and although that was more like "huh this is neat" than anything practical, I can still say that I've executed commands on a PS2.
Yeah sure guys, I'll get right on that. Come on guys ffs, it's been known for months that development on the forum has stopped for now. How many times does it need to be said before you actually get it?
Stop taking about this here, get on topic.
Keep this in mind:
Will this help with 3.69+ hacks?
While this does mean that the Vita is completely “owned”, there is still a distinction to make between being able to decrypt code and being able to execute it on the device. The latter heavily relies on another type of security called “asymmetric cryptography”, which, when implemented properly, is impossible to break without pure brute-force (because it relies on private signing keys that only Sony themselves have). Therefore the only “universal” way to run code on any firmware is via Yifan’s BootROM glitching, which technically gives you the freedom to run almost anything you want on your device, all the while being a very impractical “modchip on steroids” solution. As it stands, the most accessible ways to hack your Vita and run HENkaku on it are still software-triggered exploit chains such as h-encore, and you still have to wait for new exploit chains to be released for your firmware. This was previously mentioned in the context of a possible F00D hack: hacking lower levels of the PS Vita security is not directly associated with what we understand as a “Vita CFW”, but mostly serves the purpose of demonstrating how to crack even the toughest “nuts” of the device’s security.
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