Playstation Home Hacked!

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Playstation home has already been hacked.  A Beta is available for download on your PS3.  I was there yesterday, actually.  Right now, there isn’t much to be impressed about.  Home is really all about making an avatar (of which there are very few choices so most of the avatars look surprisingly alike) and then walking through a plaza with a bunch of other avatars who are  also wandering about aimlessly.  There is a theater, which is a bunch of rows for avatars to stand in and watch a Sony movie trailer, or a shopping center where you can purchase a limited number of clothes or items for your house.  These things cost real world money.  Thanks, but I prefer to do my shopping for real things and talking to real people.

In any case, it didn’t take long for some enterprising folks to hack the thing.  From Telegraph UK:

“One hack uses a combination of the Apache web server and DNS re-direction to allow users of PlayStation Home to watch their own movies on display screens within the game, and change text and music to whatever they choose.

A second hack enables players to download any file they want from PlayStation Home’s servers, such as a fellow user’s profile or avatar, the cartoon-like representation of themselves they create to appear in the virtual world.

But the most worrying vulnerability found in the Home software is the security loophole that allows tech-savvy users to upload any file to the Home server, or delete any file from the Home server. It raises the spectre of malicious hackers spreading viruses and malware across the PlayStation Home platform, or even launching sustained attacks on the virtual world’s servers to force it offline.”

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