Hack your PS3 for 18 bucks

Not that I am condoning this in any way, I hasten to say, some clever (and perhaps a bit naughty) people have released instructions for an $18 ps3 hack.

Hot on the heels of the announcement that Sony had won an injunction against a number of companies selling pre-programmed USB dongles containing the hack code, the programmers behind the exploit have released the code into the wild, allowing anyone with the wherewithal to fillet the gaming hardware's legendarily uncooperative OS.

In fact, anyone with around $18 to spend on a USB reference board such as the one offered by Teensy (it's currently sold out... we wonder why?) and the ability to follow the instructions offered by Github will soon be playing homebrew games and using unsigned apps to their heart's content.

Requires a little bit of geekiness. But if you didn't have any of that you probably wouldn't even be reading this.

thinq.co.uk