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I saw a post from someone who worked in the scene recently, seems they were someone famous. I don’t follow things so I’m not sure. Basically they were giving up because new people to the scene were just discovering things with AI and then immediately disclosing them to the world, allowing Sony to patch them before they really got used.

It sounded like things may have changed.

by arprocter3 hours ago|

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Might've been 'PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49727627

by MBCook3 hours ago|

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I didn’t see it here, but I do believe that’s it!

by Synthetic73462 hours ago|

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Sucks for the hoarder, but that is indeed how bug bounties are supposed to work. The first reporter gets the payout, disincentivizing sitting on valid vulns.

by alias_neo1 hours ago|

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Unfortunately the goal here wasn't to get the bounty, it was to keep it out of the hands of Sony who'll patch it.

The issue, as I understood it in this case was that he wanted it kept quiet until GTA6 launches, because announcing it to the public also announces it to Sony, and they'll patch it; normally that's fine, everyone just doesn't update, but given GTA6 is apparently quite popular, my understanding is that he wanted to let everyone get that one last update that allows GTA6 to run before they're stuck on that version.

by MBCook1 hours ago|

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That was my sense. It takes time to figure out how to use a bug as an exploit.

So normally if the community found this stuff I guess they’d work together to make a jailbreak. Maybe they already were working on that with bug X but hadn’t told anyone.

The JoeClaudeUser posts publicly “Hey everyone I found bug X over here! I’m awesome!”.

Now it can’t be used because Sony will fix it. If they had already been using it behind closed doors all that work is flushed.

by alias_neo1 hours ago|

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That's exactly how I understand it, and from further reading, it seems Sony has now patched it already so it's game over.

by nicce1 hours ago|

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I think the hoarder just wanted to have rooted PS5

by kevin_thibedeau55 minutes ago|

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Plot twist: They're actually TLA staffers who don't want their backdoors burned.

by ctippett1 hours ago|

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I noticed this exact flavour of frustration in the webOS jailbreak scene. Some newcomer proudly announced a vulnerability they found only to be met with hostility because it was seen as premature and unnecessary given there was already an existing jailbreak available that had yet to be patched.