Good writeup about why the PS3 Jailbreak can't be easily cloned

garyopa over at PSX-Scene wrote this quite good post on their forum on why the PS Jailbreak device can't easily be cloned, and why you can assume that all those "Jaibreak stick dumps" all are viruses. Some quotes:

"F*ck it even does not TALK USB, sure it might look like a USB device, might PLUG into a USB slot on your idoit-box PC, but neither windows nor linux, will ever see it as it does not send anything over the USB.

It sits and waits dead, until the PS3 sends out a signal which is not anything like USB, more like I2C or encoded-serial and then it wakes up, looks at what the PS3 sends it, and then replys with the right answer."

 ...and...

"Then you will need to take the file, assemble it into a HEX file, BUY a DEVICE programmer, or build one (look up Fluffy2, for one you can buy!), and then source out the micro-controller and buy some, either wire up it neatly, or better let etch out your own PCBoard, and solder all the parts together."

ending with...

"In the end any REAL dump of the inside of the PSJAILBREAK, will be MORE then some lame-a*s EXE, it will not even be a program you can run on your PC, it will be a set of instructions on WHAT micro-controller it is, HOW to build or wire up the chip, and what TOOLS you need besides your BRAIN which is the only part FREE (you hopefully were born with one!), the rest you going one why or the other have to buy, either already build clone from someone that wants to make a PROFIT, or a you going to have to go to a few different stores or order online, like the MicroController, PCBoard, USBplug and either already OWN a programmer or buy one or build one!"