PlayStation 3 Security Utterly Destroyed, Hackers Reveal In Detailed Presentation

PS3 Hack Blows Sony's Security To Smithereens, Linux Confirmed As Culprit

Keeping true to their word, the guys behind Wii Homebrew, calling themselves Fail0verflow, have presented their method of making the industry’s most secure console give up the goods in painstaking detail. It’s pretty much official by now, the era of PS3 piracy, custom firmwares and unsigned code is upon us, although that’s apparently not the creators’ intention.

Speaking at the 27th Chaos Communication Conference (27c3), which contrary to its naming scheme is not a supervillain convention, the team expanded on the means they’ve used to circumvent the lauded on-die security features of the PS3′s Cell chip and especially on exactly how useless the Hypervisor technology that’s supposed to block the running of unsigned code is. The answer: so useless. But what probably took the biggest beating was Sony’s ego, as the guys made it clear that the main reason hackers have just recently mobilized to make this happen was the reversal of Sony’s policy on letting users install Linux on their PS3′s. However, four pristine years posting up those sales numbers have to count for something right?

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    1. Geewizard says:

      Wow who would have thought that the following codes would escape into the wild?

      a3d8fbcf120177844c848c72afe8bf7e5fa29ab4 iso-ctype-315
      287e056ab77c7a10ec73108e63f12b811ff0f888 iso-iv-315
      161e5c4ca0064bddf445c19d89f703384e504f41 iso-key-315
      9739847f294d869b4c73fc8115be3f60cf660c4c iso-priv-315
      755d0f717cf0af17f60ef0810a45009245869b5c lv2-ctype-315
      1160bc28c9547067c7b5d3661b822290a1474d9f lv2-iv-315
      9aa78cc3d63be7858a875819717f3965527dd046 lv2-key-315
      73340c5b90402552b333331e9b4189c1cae6e9ba lv2-priv-315
      94fba8ed9675ee9d55dc6dc220b26bb162eb6ccc spp-ctype-315
      8ba0748dc57f79ce508bda47633c01897175008b spp-iv-315
      160d0eac80f0750c3afcfdde3070e75fa5fff864 spp-key-315
      87fef0cbf46e06c4fa592d6e4f3f1bf4c9f7fca1 spp-priv-315
      b5ab517f7f92cc8604f9e08ebf09e545a06c454d pkg-ctype-315
      ff6b278b7993cccd82837abe8f46a228a93931f4 pkg-iv-315
      78624dbfa916a34655678e2eb41ab232156a4acf pkg-key-315
      70e4aa4864197ad39d9226d4c55ea345aa2de287 pkg-priv-315
      e1fbd73372cbd3708c1cbe8f95aa2eedeee70406 rvk-ctype-315
      3003dcb2385cc8a60fa3566a2cc0e7a76fde680a rvk-iv-315
      e1468a087ecc12af0393b811f826a1bfe23cc891 rvk-key-315
      bd20f3764db0d29898f3cb72bababbe73b4b3332 rvk-priv-315

      Lv2ldr keys:

      erk: 94303F69513572AB5AE17C8C2A1839D2C24C28F65389D3BBB1 1894CE23E0798F

      riv: 9769BFD187B90990AE5FEA4E110B9CF5

      Enjoy your freedom!

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