Notorious iPhone Hacker Posts PS3 Master Key Online

[GeneralDefiance]

I dont think sony or any other company would in all good sense hire him.

imagine someone breaks into your house while your sleeping, wakes you up and says ' hey i just broke into your house and went through all your stuff, i hope you dont mind but i told pretty much everyone how i did it too. Hope your not mad, but if it helps i really dont like the idea of burglary anyway. SAY! how bout you give me money and i make sure this doesn't happen again?.whaddya say..cmon!'

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

It's believed, although not confirmed, that Sony will have trouble changing this key without rendering a lot of PS3 software inoperable.

And if it were any other company we were talking about here, I would just sort of shake my head and laugh, and say "But that would never happen". But this is Sony... are we SURE we can put this past them?

My love for my PS3 is weak enough that I wouldn't be above filling it with explosive spiders and mailing it to Sony.

 

[Kakashi on crack]

Heh, Sony got it big time.

I don't approve of pirating games, but I think this is a major step forward to a more user-accepting sony system.

Seriously though, unless the game is new I can find games for the same price as a cheeseburger at a resteraunt, so it can't be that expensive to just buy the dang game...

 

[Atmos Duality]

Hotz made it clear that he didn't condone piracy, however, and hoped that people would use the key responsibly.

*laughs*
"Here's a gun, make sure you don't shoot anyone with it!"

 

[e102ewan]

How does this help pirates? Won't this key just be useful for creating new apps (I.e. Homebrew) and calling them PS3 ones? Surely the pirated games would already have their key embedded?

No the DRM is written on a section of the disc by the publisher and this section can't have games written on it. The idea of unlocking this secret code is that other people can write it onto their own blu-ray discs along with games that don't already have it written on.

If a game doesn't have this code written on it than the console is programmed not to read the disc as a game.

With the Gamecube and the Wii I'm pretty sure that the DRM is written with a different kind of laser so it's even harder to copyright but it can be bypassed with homebrew software anyway which tells it to ignore what's written on a certain part of the disc and assume that a certain code is written there (the DRM) even though it isn't.

 

[e102ewan]

I meant to say "to break the copyright" not "to copyright" sorry I was writing it quickly.

 

[Malo_Tux]

Internet: 1
Sony: 0

 

[Triple G]

Aaaaaand giving the unwashed pirates the keys to the castle is about the most idiotic thing someone can do.

This guy knows how to wipe his own arse, doesn't he?

Totally. Those people are just destroying gaming industry like television destroyed movie theaters! How dare they make use of their right to share information?! Only people with money should have rights, right?

But seriously now, do YOU know how to "wipe your arse"?

 

[Autofaux]

Aaaaaand giving the unwashed pirates the keys to the castle is about the most idiotic thing someone can do.

This guy knows how to wipe his own arse, doesn't he?

Totally. Those people are just destroying gaming industry like television destroyed movie theaters! How dare they make use of their right to share information?! Only people with money should have rights, right?

But seriously now, do YOU know how to "wipe your arse"?

This isn't a utopia, where everyone uses information wisely, and benevolent idealism is king and everyone gets along.

Firstly, you can't share information that doesn't belong to you, about a platform that relies on security, and expect others not to abuse it.

Idiot.

Secondly, rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. If this idiot was responsible, he wouldn't share an exploit of a platform's software security on the internet, which we all know is filled with people with the best of intentions, all the time.

Idiot.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Do you need help wiping your arse, then? I hear people on the internet are fantastic human beings.

Idiot.

 

[Triple G]

Aaaaaand giving the unwashed pirates the keys to the castle is about the most idiotic thing someone can do.

This guy knows how to wipe his own arse, doesn't he?

Totally. Those people are just destroying gaming industry like television destroyed movie theaters! How dare they make use of their right to share information?! Only people with money should have rights, right?

But seriously now, do YOU know how to "wipe your arse"?

This isn't a utopia, where everyone uses information wisely, and benevolent idealism is king and everyone gets along.

Firstly, you can't share information that doesn't belong to you, about a platform that relies on security, and expect others not to abuse it.

Idiot.

Secondly, rights go hand in hand with responsibilities. If this idiot was responsible, he wouldn't share an exploit of a platform's software security on the internet, which we all know is filled with people with the best of intentions, all the time.

Idiot.

Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

Do you need help wiping your arse, then? I hear people on the internet are fantastic human beings.

Idiot.

1. Thanks for being so considerate and nice about the topic.
2. Dude, wake up. Sony doesn't have the best intentions, either.
3. If I buy a piece of hardware, then I have the right to modify it as I wish, because it's MY property. This guy was just helping people modifying THEIR OWN hardware.
4. Yes, you really prove that people on the internet are fantastic human beings -.-

 

[Volothos]

Please, can I just say that I think that Hotz is a moron for thinking that this'll be used in a responsible way?

 

[Jaime_Wolf]

You know what would be even better than breaking security and then offering to help make things more secure? Working on open platforms that resist piracy itself rather than resisting all unsigned code.

A huge number of people just want to run homebrew. If the consoles were open platforms, there would be tremendously little need for people to try to break any remaining security that prevented piracy. The worry that people will start distributing games without paying licensing fees is pointless if they just open the platform with a restriction on selling unlicensed products (so free homebrew is good, but paid software still needs to be licensed).

I think this "us against them" mentality going on with securing and rooting devices is extremely unhealthy for the industry and consumers.

Edit: (Add in all the usual stuff about pirated software not being equivalent to lost sales here.)

 

[TheRealGoochman]

it sort of boggles my mind on why he would do something like this in the first place........personally I sort of see him as an idiot

 

[Olrod]

I would have had more sympathy for Sony if they hadn't deliberately broken the PS3 so they couldn't play PS2 games any more.

If I'd known at the time, that the PS3 I was about to purchase could no longer play PS2 games, I'd have not bothered buying a new one and looked for a second-hand one that could play PS2 games, instead.

Then Sony can whine about how buying second-hand products means they don't get any money from the sale, and I can tell them "PS2 compatibly or STFU/GTFO".

 

[voidspawn]

If the effort of copying games gets easier than walking to store, finding the game in the shelves and draw my visa in the machine, then i might just consider it..

But until then, im gonna do what i have always done, pay up fair and square.
And as long as it is easier and faster to do it the legal way, most people will do it that way im guessing.

If the effort is easier? Is there really any effort involved in inserting a disc into disc drive and pressing "burn" ?? Hmmm