14 DAY TRIAL // If you plan on hacking your PlayStation 4 gaming console running the latest 5.50 firmware to run Linux, you should know that someone recently rewrote the public WebKit exploit to work with PS4's most recent firmware.
Last week we reported that you can now run Linux on your PlayStation 4 gaming console running firmware 4.05 or 4.55, thanks to the PS4 Linux Loader payload tool created by developer Valentin Breiz, which leverages IDC's kernel exploit. However, the hack only supported some PlayStation 4 models having a FAT filesystem.
While Sony recently patched the kernel exploit with firmware 5.50, it looks like hacker qwertyoruiop has rewritten the public WebKit exploit to work on PlayStation 4 consoles upgraded to Sony's latest firmware. qwertyoruiop said on Twitter that his hack should be 100 percent reliable.
It's just a matter of time before you can run Linux on PlayStation 4 (5.50)
The PlayStation 4 hacking community and homebrew fans should take this news as a step forward in being able to run Linux on their gaming consoles, as well as to allow users to jailbreak Sony's PlayStation 4 to play pirated games, something that we don't encourage you to do at home or office.
If you want to try out qwertyoruiop's public WebKit exploit on your PlayStation 4 running firmware 5.50, open crack.bargains/550/ with the built-in web browser of the gaming console. However, we expect Sony to release a new firmware shortly that could patch this and other recently discovered exploits.
Meanwhile, if you want to run Linux on your PlayStation 4, we recommend staying on the 4.55 firmware for now and use Valentin Breiz's PS4 Linux Loader and PS4 Payload Sender tools to hack the gaming console and successfully run a GNU/Linux distribution using the instructions provided over at developer's GitHub page.
i rewrote the public webkit exploit that worked on 5.50 so it doesn't suck (should be 100% reliable), you can find it at https://t.co/99pveLopaM - old kexploit was fixed in 5.50! — qwertyoruiop (@qwertyoruiopz) March 10, 2018