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PS3 Root Key Found
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."
Great. Last time he released something, Sony took away Other OS. Now they're going to have to brick all the consoles to stop the pirates. STFU GeoHot...
He used the work of others, most notably the guys that just got the private keys.
The other guys are the ones truly responsible for this. GeoHot, as he tends to do, is just trying to take credit.
He's a known bullshitter in the scene.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
When I bought it, it had the OtherOS feather AND I could do all the online stuff...not now
When I bought it, it had backwards comparability for almost all PS2 games...not now
Those features were removed by system updates that you had to explicitly agree to download and install.
I will grant that it is shady of Sony to require those system updates to run new media, but this was not a "bait and switch". Nothing was taken, nothing was stolen. Users explicitly agreed to the updates. If a user wanted to keep OtherOS, they should not have accepted the update.
I understand that this is an unpopular position here on slashdot, and I will likely be modded down because of it. But it is worth the reality check. The real concern ought to be that Sony is not offering media that is playable on the non-updated systems, and is therefore violating an unspoken agreement with their customers that they will offer content for their console for a reasonable period. That agreement was never formalized.
Again, it is shady. It makes Sony untrustworthy. But they didn't "steal" anything from anybody. They offered an update, and most users accepted it.