Hackers claim discovery of PS3 'private key,' enabling unauthorized code [Update]

Holy hell!

I said it from the very beginning....they should have left OtherOS alone.

At this point they might as well say "f#%k it" and just put it back now along with all the other revoked functions to lessen the blow.

well i have a ps3 and its already jailbroken and its not all about piracy there a n64 ,gba . game boy color and snes emudor fully and there aslo a ds emulador , who would love to play ds on their ps3 i think alot of people would

Ummm....so if this hack is true, which I think it is, will I be able to install a Cross-Game Chat feature into my ps3?

That would sweet!! but I still wouldn't play more....

and No I don't pirate, if I wanted to, I could since I'm a PC Gamer but

I LOVE GOOD GAMES!! and not paying for my half would = a not so good game.

It would be pretty epic if somehow the PS3 could emulate the Wii w/move support.

You have to admit, that would be pretty damn.. something. Ironic? I don't know.

Sony are completely and utterly screwed, the funny thing is that I think they deserve this..

Removing otheros was guaranteed to piss off a whole lot of people, they did it anyway and low and behold the whole security is cracked wide open..

The guy talking at the end was a bit of a douche and probably contributed the least.

Considering the initial design was to allow otheros to run, the hypervisor was obviously designed for that purpose and not security, this was a given, so no real surprise.. They probably didn't use a random number for some other reason, maybe a government back door, not sure something political (company or state) probably rather than a failure..

Honestly though Sony deserved this, the moment they decided to pull a feature they initially promised is the moment this was guaranteed to happen. I said this would happen about a year ago everyone who had half a clue said this was going to happen low and behold it happens.


There is no recovery from this they have the Private keys its game over, nothing Sony can do now other than pray its not used for rampant piracy but its pretty much guaranteed to be used for that exact purpose.

only real positive to take from this is that the ps3 sales will be huge as everyone who buys a ps3 will know its easily crackable. The other thing that this guarantees is the ramp up of the ps4 production, if Sony were planning to delay the ps4, I doubt they are now.. I bet the PS4 will be released by the end of 2012 now.

I want to punch the skinny douche bag in the face. But on another note, the very end. Oh we wanted to show you how it works, but can't. I smell a huge bluff.

I applaud these guys for their effort at getting the PS3 hacked. And, I applaud Sony for getting the console to be the most secure console... of the last 4 years. However, one mistake in their private key has changed all that.

Sadly, this cannot be patched if I understood it correctly. Patching this by changing the private key would require a change in the hardware which would also nullify any existing software and game released since the PS3's launch. If Sony were to do that, they'd screw over every person that owns a PS3 as the existing private key would be useless on a new console.

Thus, this gets to the question of piracy. With a private key in hand, you can now sign any program coded for the PS3 and the system will run it as if it were a PS3 game without issue. This same method, IN THEORY, can be used to sign PS3 ISOs and let them run off burned Bluray discs. This basically paves the way to PS3 piracy just as it has been done before with the PS2.

And, unfortunately, Sony can't do anything to stop this without altering the private key which would stop every current and past PS3 game from running.

This is a blessing and a curse.

So it seems that the PS3 will be able to use Linux program again but unfortunately at the cost of the user using PS2's PSN.

That to me does not seem worth it.

Whether or not you approve of piracy, I think we can all agree a hombrew app for a universal media player would be excellent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk8QBtKmIjc, Okay he's there little demo, they can get it to boot but that's it. No video or anything else. It seems they claimed victory a little too early. I call epic fail or their part.

Gosh these guys are amazingly intelligent.

If this means I get to use their amazing tools and hack my PS3, WOOHOO. Bring it on. I'll even buy a new PS3 if the slim will take better to the modding.

well...most of you people don't care about piracy and might even hate piracy

but in other countries, we need piracy in order to raise the sales of the consoles..if not, we won't even consider buying that

so just let piracy flow out like water and i will get a console soon..

of course i would buy some original games...hehe, but then again..how many is up to me..maybe only 1.?

This hack sucks balls plain and simple no matter the reason they did it. Sure they "wanted linux back on the ps3" but, at what cost? This is gonna screw the legitimate user of the PS3 over big time. The PS3 is basically a PC without a firewall or any kind of protection right now. Basically once the "hackers" get to work anyone can write anything they want to the PS3 and Sony can't stop it because it all looks official because they have the master key. its basically open season it can go from the light stuff light putting linux back on the ps3 or running emulators to the extremes of every game released so far being easily pirateable and massive amounts of online cheating to someone writing viruses for the ps3 to some writing programs to steal peoples info of of psn. No one in the general public realizes how serious this is. Its a bad situation for anyone who has any kind of investment in the ps3 that means users, developers, and especially sony.

These smug aholes just opened up millions of people to at least alot of inconvience because they wanted linux back. sony is surely gonna have to inact a new form of security. get used to one time use codes like EA uses on their games with online and much harsher drm.

Anyone who says all of this started because they removed other os is just plain stupid or lying to themselves because these aholes would still be twiddling their thumbs playing their hacked wii's and furiously masterbating to online porn if someone at a sony factory had not been paid off and handed over one of sony's service dongles effectivly starting all this bs. anyway I hope they enjoy having their linux back on the ps3 all this latest round of who can be the biggest ahole means is PS4 in late 2012 with a good possibility of the system not being backwards compatible with the PS3 because some people wanted linux back on the ps3