If you've gone to the trouble of finding a PS5 restock and have played through all the best PS5 games, you may be wondering what to do next with your Sony console. You might even be thinking about jailbreaking it.

Well, hold your horses there, dear reader, because it's not that easy. In fact, jailbreaking a PS4 would be more successful than jailbreaking a PS5. It is happening through the machinations of hackers who have managed to jailbreak the PS4 with a new kernel exploit, as detailed by Wololo (via The Verge).

The jailbreak, called "pOOBs4," can open the PS4 as a machine capable of running homebrew software and apps. And according to one person involved in the jailbreak, called Znullptr on Twitter, the kernel exploit also affects the PS5.

However, the developer of the jailbreak apparently does not have one for the PS5. Nor do they plan to release one anytime soon, simply because the developers do not have access to Sony's latest game console. Perhaps they, like many others, are having problems finding a PS5 in stock.

If you have a PS4 and fancy turning your hand to jailbreaking, you should make sure it is running PS4 firmware 9.00 or earlier, a console with 9.03 firmware would not be an explicit vulnerability as . However, we also recommend that you avoid jailbreaking in general.

Short answer: no. Strictly speaking, it is not illegal to jailbreak gaming consoles and other devices, but laws vary from country to country. And using a jailbroken console to download a potentially pirated game is illegal, even if it is an old, seemingly obsolete title.

The advantage of jailbreaking is that it opens the console or device to run games and apps that it normally cannot handle; in the past, we have even seen things like the Nintendo Switch hacked to run Windows this way.

Game console manufacturers do not like to do this because it means using their devices in ways they were not originally intended. It also reduces the stability of the console, causing crashes and even exposing it to cybersecurity risks.

Sony's PS5 will have "Horizon Forbidden West" and "The Elden Ring" coming out early next year, and the PS4 has great games like "God of War" and "The Last of Us 2."

If you like homebrew software and tinkering with hardware and software, I recommend the Raspberry Pi instead.