A group of hackers called “The Three Tuskateers” has published the PlayStation 3’s LV0 decryption keys, making PS3 firmware easier to decrypt and potentially opening the gateway for widespread piracy.
In the past jailbreak releases, which allow users to play pirated games and homebrew as well as install custom software, were quickly thwarted by Sony releasing software updates that users had to install to access online capabilities but this new hack means that users may be able to bypass Sony’s past and future updates and have online access regardless of what they install.
According to EuroGamer, the hackers had no intentions of releasing the keys, but were forced to when a different hacking group discovered their work and planned to release and charge a fee for it.
Sony did well for the PS3 to last this long in it’s life cycle without a complete hack, as the Wii was completely cracked a few years ago and the Xbox 360 has been having problems with hackers and piracy for a long while.
It is not yet known as to whether this will truly leave the PS3 wide open for piracy, though this may encourage Sony to speed up the release of their next console.
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How many days and still NO COMMENT from Sony? This stinks of last years hack on the PSN itself and how they waited a month before letting us know our personal deets had been stolen… 125 million affected.
Im sick of this BS of ‘Terms Of Service’ we are supposed to hold to so dearly yet SCEA can just do whatever they want without any penalty? This time Iv put it out that the method for obtaining these keys has been out for over 80 weeks with Sony doing NOTHING, all the while the game manufacturers game code has been open to whoever could read the article. Its time more than the customer brought suit against Sony and SCEA for allowing their code (of their game) to be exploited and decrypted over the Playstation console!!!
While I usually have the consumers back on this one, and still do to be honest. SCEA’s negligence and arrogance is not funny anymore (if it ever was). Infinity Ward, Activision, EA, 2KGames, and any other game company best be on suing the piss ou tof SCEA and Sony this time.
Heres the article describing how to obtain the key (now not news since the keys themselves are out), so PLEASE all you gaming companies use it in your lawsuit against SCEA!!!
http://www.ps3news.com/ps3-hacks-jailbreak/ps3-hacker-mathieulh-on-3-60-firmware-lv0-dump-exploit-keys/