TheFlow has managed to shake up the PlayStation hacking scene with just a single screenshot. If you're aware of TheFlow, you'll know that he's known for a variety of homebrew projects, especially centered around the PlayStation Vita, with noteworthy releases consisting of a PlayStation 4 OFW 7.55 exploit, a port of Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas to the Vita, h-encore, Adrenaline, and VitaShell for the Vita. Now he's set his sights on a new PlayStation system, because posted today on his Twitter account was a picture of a PS5's settings menu, with a special option that's normally not seen: Debug Settings. Presumably, this means TheFlow has found an exploit for the PlayStation 5, but before you get your hopes up, there are no plans for this to be disclosed, and no ETA for a release. Still, it's quite interesting to see.

#PS5Share pic.twitter.com/xem0A7i3rC

— Andy Nguyen (@theflow0) November 7, 2021

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Discussion Thread

 

[MasterJ360]

I love this man

 

[godreborn]

I'm not too familiar with how licenses and such work on consoles but I think I understand roughly what you mean and it is pretty bs.

Something I just noticed that suggests this is true is that he has a new badge on HackerOne called "Swagger" and it is given when you receive "Swag" from a bug bounty. Basically t-shirts and similar things.

Well, ebootleggerjoe held the ps3 scene hostage by forcing you to suck his dick just to get your games. He never released licenses, even to this day, so someone had to rebuy games.

 

[urbanman2004]

Ata boy
Ha ha Sony...

 

[anhminh]

I find hacking Sony console are only for novelty since you can pirate most of them on PC.

 

[ZeroFX]

Oh cool, I wonder if he'll be able to net some grands with this one. Also he should not release it, hoard it until something nice can come out of it.

 

[cvskid]

Why bother showing something off if you aren't going to release it

 

[xstationbr]

one thing I've always been curious about.
because when someone discovers a flaw in a system it is only 1 person who can carry it out, and not at least 30 people?
for it is not possible that there are only 1 genius in the world.

1 George Hotz (GeoHot), 1 TheFl0w(a*****), 1 Mscires, 1 Yifan Lu and no one else can do the same.

it's possible that there are only these great hackers, 1 Bunnie and many others.
Impressive, but I don't understand why only 1 and not several?

they all deserve Oscar and an honor to merit.

 

[the_randomizer]

Why bother showing something off if you aren't going to release it

It's the Wii U hacking scene all over again lol

 

[MasterJ360]

Why bother showing something off if you aren't going to release it

He will eventually, the Flow isn't the show & tell type. Hes the very reason why the PS4 got higher exploits than 5.05
This news basically confirms a PS5 Jailbreak. So now is a great time to stop updating if you haven't already.

 

[smf]

It's really not hard to get one. 5+ million people have a PS5 and I've had several myself. The entire "impossible to get" thing is overblown.

Maybe if you check every day, I think about getting one occasionally and there is never any stock.

 

[VashTS]

fail0verflow is in now as well, oh boy

 

[HarveyHouston]

So, TheFlow is whom I can thank for making it possible for there to be Rock Band customs on the PS4. What a GREAT guy!

 

[Satangel]

Maybe if you check every day, I think about getting one occasionally and there is never any stock.

It begs the questions why you'd want one already. It's too early, not enough exclusives out for the console AND it's just too early in the lifecycle for thsi console. Rather wait for some revision , that's the smart play

 

[magico29]

So there's a kernel exploit for ps5 huh.
I know Sleirsgoevy has a webkit exploit for Ps4 9.0 and Ps5 too, and the Ps4 and Ps5 scene was waiting for the kernel exploits.

Looks like I will buy a Ps5 after all.

You don't need luck to find one, You will need money instead. lol

Good luck finding one...

He doesn't need luck, he needs a lot of money instead. lol

 

[smf]

It begs the questions why you'd want one already. It's too early, not enough exclusives out for the console AND it's just too early in the lifecycle for thsi console. Rather wait for some revision , that's the smart play

because earlier firmware = better

 

[Immortallix]

TheFlow hates the scene and homebrew communities. He'll probably never release anything to the public again.

Why is this?

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

I wonder if I should buy a PS5 and throw it in the closet now, if something comes of this it'll be scalper heaven eventually

>implying it isn't already

 

[x65943]

>implying it isn't already

super double scalper heaven

 

[Julie_Pilgrim]

super double scalper heaven

sounds like something from dragon ball z

 

[depaul]

Is he asking for more hatred from the community?
Is he doing so for Sony bounties?