Hacker Claims to Have the PS3's Front Door Keys

Famed hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz, who among other things helped crack the iPhone, reckons he's found what are essentially the keys to the PlayStation 3. And has posted them online for the world to see.While a group claimed last week that they'd done much the same thing, and were in the process of releasing tools to allow people to install Linux on their system, GeoHot has gone a step further and simply published the PS3's "root key".The root key is a signature of sorts, that lets the PS3 know that the program that's about to run on the console is a legitimate piece of software. If it's now out there, then once people start messing around with it, they'll be able to whip up anything - be that custom software or pirated games - and trick the console into thinking it's OK to load.

Meanwhile, the team from last week's news- fail0verflow - have as promised released some "PS3 development tools" for hackers to mess around with. If the homebrew scene is your scene, and you'd like to take a look at what the PS3 can do without Sony calling the shots, you can find those here.

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wow great news! thanks for posting this info

blah, ill never make these kind of things with my PS3, makes it slow.

RazorX wrote:blah, ill never make these kind of things with my PS3, makes it slow.

Me neither Razberry. I'd probably break it somehow. I'd probably break it just THINKING about trying to do it. LOL

this not a claim btw i have new item proving jbing can and is done on ps3 and video of poeple play gt5 without the game it not a claim lol thinking that ps3 is hack prove is crazy

At the 27th Chaos Communication Congress – an annual hacker’s conference organized by the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) – a team known only as ‘fail0verflow’ showed a proof of concept that may be extremely damaging to Sony. The team claims to have broken through an important part of the PlayStation 3′s security, that would mean that programs could be run on the PS3 as if they were legitimate games.

The fail0verflow team demonstrated how they were able to find the PS3′s private keys, and referred to the PS3 security as an “epic fail”. According to the group, this will allow not only executables to signed and run on any PS3, but also this can result in a dongle-free “jailbreak” of sorts.

While not making plans to directly enter the “scene”, fail0verflow has stated they will be releasing the tools “in January or so”, so that if the community chooses to develop they can. A synopsis of the logic and the demo can be viewed below.



The consequences of such a hack is truly frightening. While it does allow for people to use homebrew games and applications, far more would use the process to illegally pirate games – something that could severely damage the platform, cutting into publisher’s, developer’s and Sony’s profits.

Without the need for a “jailbreak dongle”, and with a minimal chance of damaging the console, piracy on the PS3 could potentially soar, something that effectively killed the PlayStation Portable.

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overflow is awesome cant wait until they release this