I was amazed recently by how locked down the hidden PlayStation 5 browser is.

You can’t access it as an app through the dashboard, but it appears if you click a URL from a message. So people were sending themselves “google[.]com”, clicking, and enjoying web access.

But it seems Sony have even clamped down on that. I sent a message to myself recently, the link wasn’t clickable, and I got a message to say my PlayStation Network account had received a warning and could be suspended if I did it again!

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7777332215 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They are used to exploit known vulns to get arbitrary read write, calls. For cheating. Both freebsd kernel exploits and browser exploits.

	▲	embedding-shape 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Also for rooting the console, which makes it way easier to run cracked games. I think I saw a browser being used for getting root access first with PS3 unless I misremember.

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Wowfunhappy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> I got a message to say my PlayStation Network account had received a warning and could be suspended if I did it again!

What?!? Really? Did they cite what rule you had violated?

	▲	mattcasmith 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		“Sharing malicious URLs, including those that may harm another player.” The URL was google[.]com.