The latest PlayStation Portal update has supposedly addressed an exploit that allowed PlayStation Portable (PSP) games to be emulated natively on the streaming handheld.
This is according to a recent X / Twitter post by Andy Nguyen that was first spotted by VGC. An employee at Google, Nguyen previously claimedthat they were part of a small team that was able to get PSP games running offline on the PlayStation 5 peripheral via some hacking and the open-source emulator PPSSPP.
Now, however, Nguyen says that the exploit they used to get the software installed and running has been patched after they “responsibly reported the issues to PlayStation.” This alleged change comes as part of the latest PS Portal software update, version 2.0.6.
In my culture that is considered a dick move.
In my dick, that’s considered uncultured
My dick is in your mom’s culture. ^(sorry, couldn’t resist)^
If you’ve got culture growing in your dick then you should see a physician and ask for a referral to a specialist.
Yeah, let’s make sure all exploits are patched before the device inevitably becomes obsolete in a couple of years, so we can throw it away and buy the next version instead of not being wasteful.
That thing came out of the gates obsolete
It is bizarre that Sony have a whole game streaming platform, and their game streaming device that does literally nothing else won’t connect to it.
I’ve never even heard of it TBH.
Hit the nail on the head. People who report jailbreaks are the same ones who reported their neighbors in soviet eastern germany.
That‘s a terrible comparison. The incentives and stakes are on very different levels.
Your right, I don’t think anyone actively cares about Soviet eastern Germany anymore
So what? Both are traitors to their fellow humans. Obviously, the outcome is different but I dont see why youre making a fuss about it.
it’s a fucking tablet wtf
same for you. no reason to go ballistic. chill out.
me? you compared bug reporting a “tablet” that has less utility that a tablet and weaker than a tablet with traitors of soviet union, anyone who wants to buy a device to play emulated games gonna buy a steam deck not that
Yeah you. Blocked.
“Responsible reporting” is for security vulnerabilities… It’s extremely hard for me to believe that jailbreaks like this should be considered security vulnerabilities, especially if it’s something local-only or otherwise limited to something only the owner of the device would feasibly be able to do.
Does anyone believe the portable is actually a more secure device now than it was before this patch?
Unfortunately, the way that jailbreaks are done is by exploiting actual security vulnerabilities. So yes, responsibly reporting them is the right thing to do.
Our ire here should be for Sony, for not supporting this through an official safe method. Not for security researchers just doing security research.
I believe it‘s less secure now because it‘s future became more uncertain. How can we be sure it won‘t become a glorified brick the moment servers shut down?
This proves that ps portal is actually could be a capable handheld. Shame, it probably got enough processing power to run vita games. It has an adreno 610 gpu, which is much more powerful than vita’s gpu.
Fun fact, Nguyen is a family name
It’s the most popular family name in Vietnam, 30-39%
There’s a clue in the text as his first name is Andy.
Second, second to be precise
In Vietnamese the family name goes first, so Nguyen Andy 😂
I’m really confused by the guy’s responses to people. Like he seems to think that it’s somehow not possible to tell people before letting Sony know directly first or something? He then tells people that it’s fine they just need to avoid updating their firmware, before discovering that it’s impossible to avoid that when you first boot the device from factory…
“It’s only a few weeks of difference!” he says when he of all people should know that’s an age in the modding scene.
Fuck Andy Nguyen.
Excuse me, waiter, this take is too hot.
haha I break ps portal haha here take the vulnerability don’t sue me
