Hacker gives PS3 a homebrew hello

It looks like the PS3 has just gotten its own Hello World greeting courtesy of Dragula96, a well-known PSP hacker. According to Dragula96, he recently discovered an exploit in the official 2.20 firmware and was able to put up his own Hello World proof of concept. Currently, he's not sharing how he did it; he's still doing some tests and working on running a simple game like Pong.

The hacker noted that the systems he used for his experiment had no hardware modifications. The exploit was up and running on both 40 and 60 gig retail models — not test PS3s.

In light of this, we know that anti-hacking/piracy has been a Sony strong suit when it comes to the PS3. We wonder if we'll be seeing more hacks to come, or will the big S put a stop to things and quickly retaliate with a new firmware update.

[Thanks Craig!]