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Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the social-hacking dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sony Marketing Man, Kevin Butler's official Twitter feed retweets a post by @exiva that posts the PS3 Master key. Kevin Butler who has over 69,000 followers tweet read (The tweet now deleted): '@TheKevinButler Lemme guess... you sank my Battleship? RT @exiva: 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 Come at me, @TheKevinButler'" Here is a screenshot of the tweet.

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  1. Re:I think by SighKoPath · · Score: 3, Informative

    Raising awareness of a boycott and getting more people in on it makes it a much more effective boycott.

  2. Re:How about by Daetrin · · Score: 4, Informative

    You are entirely correct, that is the not the real Kevin Butler's real twitter account.

    (It is however the "real" Kevin Butler's "real" twitter account.)

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  3. Re:Confused... by Bill+Dimm · · Score: 4, Informative

    My (perhaps incorrect) understanding is that exiva tweeted the key to Kevin Butler (the marketing guy) followed by the words "Come at me." Kevin Butler then retweeted it with "Lemme guess... you sank my Battleship?" because he didn't know what it was. So, Sony didn't give the key to a marketing guy, someone outside of Sony (exiva) did.

  4. Re:I don't understand. why did this happen? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is the real key. It's been known for a few weeks now. Sony has been trying to suppress anyone who reposts the key. Obviously a futile effort.
    The marketing guy was tricked into tweeting the key as he responded to another tweet.

  5. Kevin Butler by a_nonamiss · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do you people realize that Kevin Butler isn't even a real person? (At least, not at Sony.) He's a fictional character played by an actor. This twitter account is probably manned by dozens of employees in the marketing department paid to do just that. Any one of them could have been tricked or compromised. citation

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  6. XNA by tepples · · Score: 5, Informative

    As I understand it, there hasn't been much of an effort to jailbreak the Xbox 360 console for homebrew because Microsoft offers a limited "XNA" sandbox in which to make, run, and even sell homebrew games, and it appears far more committed to XNA than Sony ever was to Other OS.

  7. Re:I think by Nursie · · Score: 3, Informative

    Meh, vaio are good, but not the only decent laptop.

    The tvs are expensive compared to the likes of Samsung

    There's honestly not much to pick between Xbox and PS3 IMHO.

    DS and derivatives have WAAAAY more market than PSP...

    In the current market, you can easily get away from Sony products without much compromise.