iPhone cracker hacks PlayStation 3

George Hotz, the man famous for breaking into Apple’s iPhone, claims to have managed to hack the PS3 – and has now released how he did it online.

Hotz says that it took him five weeks to breach the PS3’s defences, and now that he’s in, he hopes others will follow. “Hopefully, this will ignite the PS3 scene, and you will organise and figure out how to do practical things, like with the iPhone when jailbreaks were first released,” he writes on his blog. Sony might not be quite so keen...