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PS3 Root Key Found

Posted by Soulskill on from the insert-quarter-to-play-again dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The PlayStation 3 'root key' used for code signing has been found by GeoHot. This enables running homebrew without the need for psjailbreak-style USB-devices, and also provides hope for those at firmware version 3.55 that currently cannot be downgraded. The key also cannot be changed without hardware modifications. Oops."

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  1. More Likely... by TheEyes · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder how long until the lawyers start raining down from the sky.

    1. Re:More Likely... by spun · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder how long until the lawyers start raining down from the sky.

      That sounds... very nice. I mean, assuming they are falling a long enough distance, that is.

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    2. Re:More Likely... by by+(1706743) · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wonder how long until the lawyers start raining down from the sky.

      That sounds... very nice. I mean, assuming they are falling a long enough distance, that is.

      *mumbles something about lawyers being full of hot air, thereby reducing terminal velocity to a survivable speed*

  2. Firmware updates by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did you guys hear about the next firmware update that bricks the console? It's fine, they offer free replacements for anyone affected by it.

  3. Re:Same private key? by evel+aka+matt · · Score: 4, Funny

    I prefer people that iron it.

  4. Re:Same private key? by Mitchell314 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Geohot while he does help out with certain things, likes to take credit when it was really a group effort.

    I don't like people that steel credit.

    What lead you to that conclusion? :P

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  5. Laywers raining down from the sky by wowbagger · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Laywers raining down from the sky"

    <voice actor="Lloyd Bridges">Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up skeet shooting....</voice>

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  6. Re:Peeking under the hood by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    The random number could still be random. That's the thing with randomness... you can never tell. http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Nine

  7. Re:Same private key? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only I had a nickel for every time I zinc of a bad pun...

  8. Re:Same private key? by Fnord666 · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, I zinc this has gone far enough.

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  9. Hey by SnarfQuest · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hey, that's the same combination that I have on my luggage!

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  10. Re:Same private key? by dmomo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't like people who steel credit either. Or anyone who commits pewter fraud for that matter.

  11. Re:Same private key? by NeverVotedBush · · Score: 3, Funny

    Dang - didn't see this one. You get the credit, sir! Mine was almost a carbon copy but you get the gold and I get the silver...

  12. Re:Same private key? by CrashPoint · · Score: 2, Funny

    When it comes to puns, less is ore.

  13. Re:Same private key? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    That one was pure gold.

  14. I'm sick of these sorts of comments by definate · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm sick of these sorts of comments. This is Slashdot people, news for nerds. Don't make these kinds of comments!

    We will not know whether or not lawyers are full of hot air enough to reduce terminal velocity to a survivable speed, until we have taken a significantly large random sample, and dropped them from planes.

    I suggest we take some aspiring lawyers, and use them as our control, as I couldn't bear the thought of accidentally killing someone who isn't a lawyer.

    Scientific rigour, people. Use it!

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