{"id":10591,"date":"2011-03-10T11:41:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"has-sony-fixed-the-ps3-s-security-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/10591-has-sony-fixed-the-ps3-s-security-issues","title":{"rendered":"Has Sony fixed the PS3\u2019s security issues?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report over on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-new-firmware-resecures-ps3\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer&rsquo;s Digital Foundry<\/a>, a PS3 firmware update launched earlier today seems to have locked out hackers. For the moment, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The article quotes hacker and PSFreedom dev Youness Alaoui, who explains that the firmware update doesn&rsquo;t fix the existing vulnerability so much as circumvent it entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, the system security works as a sort of hierarchy &ndash; each layer is protected with its own encryption, and successfully negotiating each layer opens up access to the next. This hierarchy was busted open when George &ldquo;GeoHot&rdquo; Hotz published the console&rsquo;s &ldquo;mtldr&rdquo; key, which works as a root decryption cipher from which all the others are generated.<\/p>\n<p>Alaoui says that the PS3 simply doesn&rsquo;t use mtldr anymore.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For now, it looks to me (at first glance) that the PS3 has been re-secured, but it doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t be broken again from scratch,&#8221; he says. &#8220;The epic fail was epic. It doesn&#8217;t mean they can&#8217;t come [up] with an epic save.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest firmware update locks out hackers (for now)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}