iPhone hacker

For the first time in three years of its existence the popular video game console Sony PlayStation 3 was hacked by the same hacker who was the first to successfully jailbreak the iPhone.

The hack by 20-year-old George Hotz, aka geohot, significantly expands the functionality of the box by allowing it to run unrestricted versions of Linux and a wide range of games that are currently forbidden. The hardware and software designer told it took him five weeks to develop the hack using a combination of modifications to the console's hardware and software.