With these keygens and other such brute force programs could be made, or programs that could detect patterns in the generations of the keygens, making it significantly easier to crack games.Danzaivar said:
Notorious iPhone Hacker Posts PS3 Master Key Online
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Right, not actual discs, but I wouldn't feel bad pirating PS2 games I own to play on an emulator. (However at that point I would probably go down the slippery slope and download games I don't have.)psrdirector said:
I wonder why company,s still bother? there is always some smart guy cracking a machine its one of the rules of the internet:' everything can be cracked or homebrew enabled"
Erm, I thought PS2 games used a regular (Well, with some extra encoding) DVD? Hence PS2 emulators on the PC being able to play games straight from disc on your DVD drive.psrdirector said:
Unless PC DVD drives magically have this hardware that the PS3 isn't capable of...
Come on, noone should be stupid thinking it's a question of whether he wants to help hackers or wants to help people with homebrew.
The guy cracked the system (apparently) and then said "Major players in the console world, I want you to hire me and give me a crap load of money!"
It's a card that's been played a thousand times before "You have a security problem, right here. You know how I know that? Cause I was able to break it! So you should hire me to prevent other people from breaking it!"
The guy cracked the system (apparently) and then said "Major players in the console world, I want you to hire me and give me a crap load of money!"
It's a card that's been played a thousand times before "You have a security problem, right here. You know how I know that? Cause I was able to break it! So you should hire me to prevent other people from breaking it!"
As in, literally the same exact value? Or a predictable sequence?DataSnake said:
99% of all 'random' numbers used in computing, whether it is for games, or cryptography are actually pseudo-random number generators.
That is, they create sequences of numbers based on a seed value, which is 100% predictable, but appears random because there's no obvious way to predict what number comes next from the existing numbers.
A bad PRN function has a really obvious pattern that's easy to predict, a good one pretty much cannot be identified as a predictable pattern unless you have billions of numbers in of the sequence.
But regardless, if you know the seed value for any given sequence, you can figure it out precisely anyway.
For cryptography, this is a bad thing, but usually tolerable if the sequence is hard enough to predict.
Computers can't generate real random numbers anyway unless they have specialist random number generating hardware, which most don't.
For use in games, the predictability of 'psuedorandom' functions is actually a benefit.
It allows you to create things within the game that appear totally random, but have the benefit that if you want to repeat the 'random' sequence (like, say an action replay function), all you need to store is the seed value you generated it from.
I sure as hell would, the guy has found every single vulnerability in the system, and then offers his services as basically a "vulnerability finder", he's sure as hell more qualified than anyone at Sony currently.Harbinger_ said:
Also, fucking hilarious, I hope he gets hired and is put in the Guinness World Records book as "Ballsiest Attempt at Employment"
He's not asking to be hired to prevent the problem he created, that ship has sailed, he is offering his services to prevent future problems, and has proven he's good at finding thempdgeorge said:
I don't know the intricacies of what exactly is legal when it comes to information like this, it's so fucking convoluted I don't think anyone does.antipunt said:
I think he is simultaneously protected under that new statute that jailbreaking is legal, and condemned under certain provisions of the DMCA.
In other words, who the fuck knows, it's a free for all.
Sincere outlaw said:
DRM only exists because of piracy, so thats pretty circular reasoning. Not that I disagree.
Huh. That's messed up. XDDataSnake said:
But then again, calling a constant 'random', is about the most incongruous thing you can say in programming.
How can a constant be random? Eh. Well, I guess that explains why it's a security flaw.
I was kinda done with this thread. I don't mind a good argument on the internet but the sheer amount of quotes that I'd have to respond to, the sheer amount of stupid responses I received within those quotes, and the additional quotes of those responses that would inevitably follow bored me just thinking about them. This quote, however, is easy to correct. Let me do so in an unnecessarily pretentious and patronizing manner, because it's a pretentious and patronizing response.dududf said:
Ok, are you ready?
You see this line: "95% of the people that use this data will pirate games with it, that's a near assumed fact"? You know what's wrong with asking for a source from it?
This bit: "that's a near assumed fact".
That section indicates that I'm not stating it to be a fact [and therefore am not listing sources, as you so incorrectly stated] but an "assumed fact". This means, although I know it's not a fact [how the hell can it be, the hack has only just been found hence the point of the news post?] it's something I am assuming, based on previous software hacks [see my comment regarding the Nintendo DS].
Hope that clears up why your childish response [as in you clearly didn't read the whole post] was inaccurate, and I pray you never use the phrase "kthx" again...