Sony finally responds to Fail0verflow PS3 “root key” hack

Posted by jhansonxi on Jan 7, 2011 10:55 PM EDT
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It has been a full week now since the news about hacking group FailOverflow’s discovery of the PS3 “root key”, which would allow homebrew developers to sign their own applications, began to filter out of the 27C3 (Chaos Communication Congress) Hacker Conference 2010. It seems that Sony executives either hadn’t been paying attention to the reports, or simply discounted them as another easily-corrected security hole, as they had not released any type of statement regarding the discovery until today. (LOL reference: http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2001-10-25/ )

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