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

by JC Fletcher (Dec 29th 2010 1:30PM)

During the ongoing Chaos Communication Conference 27C3, the hackers responsible for the Wii's Homebrew Channel, calling themselves fail0verflow, gave a presentation in which they claimed to have figured out the "private key" used by Sony to authorize code to run on retail PS3 systems. This means, as ...

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