Interview with Alec from Team ICE

PS3-Sense.nl writes: "An inside look at the hacking scene of the PS3, that is what PS3-Sense.nl will give you in the upcoming weeks. We have been curious why the hackers want to hack the console. We contacted old Team ICE member Alec. Team ICE was in the spotlights last year thanks to their elf2self exploit, which is shown in the video below.

Just after their 'debut', Team ICE decided to split up, work alone and they disappeared. We were curious how much progress they have made since then."

[Variable]

Very interesting! I hope they eventually hack the PS3 for homebrew, don't care about iso loaders :)

[theKiller]

but not now, it will bee good in 2009 and when prices goes down, like that the masses of the mass market will jump to get a ps3!

[Alexander Roy]

Hackers? Don't make me laugh. Team ICE was one of the biggest scams in the PS3 hacking scene to date. They suddenly appeared, told everyone they had some kind of hack, continued with talking about how everyone should be waiting for them and then just left after a lot of people already said they were fake. Team ICE are nothing but a bunch of poor losers who desperately wanted attention.

[tweaker]

Yup. I really don't think these guys or Dark_Alex will ever hack the PS3. It's not like they actually hacked the PSP. There was an exploit in the 1.5 firmware that allowed homebrew execution with the "Swaploit" discovery. From there it started the PSP homebrew scene, not from them. That's why I highly doubt they'll be close or first to finding any exploit on the PS3.

[Alexander Roy]

Actually, homebrew started on v1.00 due to some awesome guy - who's name I forgot, shame on me - who managed to run code on it as there were no real restictins to it.
The reason why people love DAX is - I think - that he practically unlocked the PSP and it's capabilities. His CFW allowed different video resolutions way before Sony officially allowed it. He may not have created the PSP scene, but he sure is one of the main reasons there still is one - although it's quite quiet atm.
Anyway, I don't care who's the one to first bypass the hypervisor, but there is one thing I am sure of: Team ICE can go **** themselves. Yeah, excuse my language, but they contributed absolutely nothing productive to the scene except fooling those who believed in them.

[tweaker]

True. Well it was found in 1.0 that you could run unsigned code directly off the GAME folder, I know that. But it wasn't till the exploit found in the 1.5 firmware when the Homebrew scene exploded and took off. I was there since day one. 1.0 didn't do jack for us 1.5 owners at the time, only launch Japan gamers had them.

[DrWan]

I hope PS3 never gets hacked. I don't want my system's security jeopardize. PS3 specific viruses, no thanks. Not gona become another Windows victim.

[clintos59]

has done a very good job with the ps3 being hacked. I mean its been out for 1 year and 5 months and still hasnt been hacked unlike the 360 and wii they have been hacked and u can burn games for those 2 consoles. If this an inidication of advanced hardware then the ps3 shows me it does have potential under its hood that is waiting to be unleashed. When devs really get to take full advantage of the ps3 u can almost be sure that the ps3 will be show casing some mind boggling details and have more areas u can take advantage of such as physics and smart AI etc etc. My friend has offered to mod my 360 and wii but id rather pass and just be a true gamer and support gamesm but he told me that they still havent found a way to hack into the ps3. Like I said eventually they will do it but it sure is proof that sony did a great job building the ps3, or may I say ken kuturagi and all the people who worked on it.

[CRIMS0N_W0LF]

if ps3 gets hacked it will sell millions. psone and ps2 sold a lot due to mod chip.

[Cyb3r]

BS these are the same guys that said that they created the first true modchip for the Xbox 360 and were proven fake

[SaiyanFury]

Even if the PS3 gets hacked, I'm not gonna hack mine. I paid 600 bucks for my first generation 60GB model to play games, and use the PlayStation Network as well as it's media capabilities. I'm not going to risk bricking my system with homebrew. Just a personal opinion of course, people are free to disagree with me.

[Marty8370]

This should have been posted in translated form.