Well, the master key has been found. I won't post it here, but I'm sure it'll be freely available on the Internet in a few hours, if not now.

If you're not a programmer it's useless to you, however if you are, you just got handed the keys to the kingdom. It's a cryptographic system of private and public key. Public key is used to run software, private key is used to sign it. You can't sign anything without a private key, and you can't run anything that isn't signed with a private key.

This enables you to sign anything you like and make the console run it as if it came from Sony. Even worse, it enables you to decrypt everything that has been signed with the private key, analyze it, modify it, and resign it to make it run on the console. This means:

1. Custom firmware (unpatchable)
2. Custom software (unpatchable)
3. Full access to all console functionality
4. Being able to change unique console ID (making it impossible to ban anyone on PSN)

Basically it opens the pandora's box. Complete meltdown for Sony.

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The master key, the one used to sign ALL PS3 software to verify to the console that it's genuine, the key that is hardcoded (as in etched, unchangeable) into the master processor itself has been COMPROMISED, leaked, released in the wild.

This means you can code anything you like and use the key to sign it and the console will accept it as if it came from God (Sony) himself. There's no way to patch that hole, because technically it's not hacking, it's using Sony's own master key to sign your code, making it indistinguishable from the original.

There's literally no way they can fix this.

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How big is this problem? Think JTAG Xboxes, but MUCH MUCH worse. Typically JTAG Xboxes can last only around 2 hours in the wild before they get banned. But now, every PS3 out there will be able to perform like an Xbox JTAG, without being able to get banned.

Sony will have to implement a sort of a PunkBuster anti-cheat system across the board, and won't be able to get it up an running for at least 6 months or more, and in the meantime you'll have cheaters paradise on PSN.

This will almost certainly be reported all over the gaming media, which is a complete disaster for Sony.

Seriously, for those that still don't get it - this is absolutely the worst possible scenario that could have happened for Sony, period.

Това са вече стари новини и наистина са големи но за сега си остават на ниво празни приказки и нищо на практика.

Добре вие как мислите към добро или към лошо тегли това ?
Незнам дали да се радвам или да се дразня на новината. До сега винаги съм си купувал игрите ( е като изключим 1 период с пс2 и като по-малъкс PC ).
Това до какво ще доведе .... ? Не си спомням в интерес на истината когато пердашихме тонове пиратки на ps2 да сме имали грижа, но сега нещата са много по-сложни и много по-обвързани с интернета.

Невъзможността да играеш мулти и да се възползваш от предоставените игри и каквото и да е друго за download VS да пердашиш безсплатно игри ......

Как мислите кое е по-добрият варянт ?

До преди две години стигаха до менюто на игрите.
Сега уж са понапреднали но качеството е ужасно и почти нищо не върви кадърно.