Under 24 hours: Home hacked; SKFU expose vulnerabilities, Alek agrees

So the Home Open Beta launch wasn’t exactly the grand opening we all thought it would be. Even more disconcerting was the fact that it hasn’t even been a full 24 hours yet since it launched and already it’s been hacked. To cap that off, there’s a long list of vulnerabilities discovered, exposed by SKFU. Not exactly a great day for Sony, I can imagine.

Thanks to SKFU and Tcraw77813 for sending in your tips!

Cracking systems even before you can finish saying the sentence “Sony hates hackers” is nothing really new. We’ve seen homebrew developers sprint to the finish line a mere couple of hours after an official firmware has been released. Still, knowing how truly feasible expedient hacking can be done, that doesn’t make it any less sad — especially for Sony.

The highly-hullaballoo’d HOME just opened its doors today; not even 24 hours yet and it’s now already a hack statistic. Worse, there’s a full list of exposed vulnerabilities in it that we’re pretty sure Sony won’t exactly be too proud about, and will bring a huge grin of “I told you so” from Microsoft.

Straight from SKFU’s blog, he shows little restraint in showing his disappointment with Home, saying that he can only agree with Microsoft’s comment of “It feels like 2005 tech in 2008. I’m not sure that’s what people want.”

But one of the vulnerabilities he discovered would be the ability to delete any file from HOME servers and download any content from HOME as you may please. What can be viewed as the biggest facepalm item for Sony, however, would be that there is the ability to upload any file to the HOME server.

Meanwhile, even Alek, in a post at Sceners.org, agrees with SKFU when the latter expressed discontent over the two-year delay, only to be presented with a HOME beta “on a technical standard from 2005 with crappy graphics, a few boring areas and many many many many many many many bugs.”

He did say, though, that launching under open beta would necessarily mean bugs and “tons of errors trying to connect this first days.” Alek also noted that it looks as if all the houses under the closed beta have been deleted, so you guys would have to recreate them again — hopefully the cost won’t be too much, but I doubt that somehow.

So, at the end of the day, it wasn’t exactly the grand opening we were all hoping for. You can check out the vulnerabilities list over at SKFU’s blog linked below. But remember, this is just for information. Don’t use it for some other backhanded tactics you boys might wanna try and cook up, alright?

Thanks to SKFU and Tcraw77813 for sending in your tips!

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