PS2 hacked to surf the web
A web designer has found a way of hacking into Sony’s PlayStation2 (PS2) online gaming service to enable the console to be used to browse the web, not just webpages associated with the gaming system, according to the BBC.
Martyn Brook has created a specially designed website that is functioning as a web browser and already attracting over a hundred users a day, the development having spread by word of e-mouth.
"I noticed there was a way you can put an IP address into the network adapter and from there realised I could put in an address of a webpage and create your own browser," he told the BBC.
So far, the browser, found at www.brookfresh.co.uk, is rather basic, though it does insert an address bar at the top of every page to enable navigation. Mr Brook said it should, however, be able to cope with almost any web page. He is currently working a means of bookmarking favourite sites and on an email system.
