{"id":9189,"date":"2010-12-30T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"console-hackers-claim-to-have-discovered-ps3-s-private-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9189-console-hackers-claim-to-have-discovered-ps3-s-private-key","title":{"rendered":"Console hackers claim to have discovered PS3\u2019s \u201cprivate key\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of hackers dubbed fail0verflow have announced at the ongoing Chaos Communication Conference 27C3 that they&rsquo;ve worked out the PS3&rsquo;s &ldquo;private key&rdquo; &#8211; some sort of routine used by Sony to authorise running code on the console.<\/p>\n<p>According to an over-caffeinated nerd on the <a href=\"http:\/\/psx-scene.com\/forums\/f6\/fail0verflow-27c3-ps3-exploit-talk-video-now-online-73986\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"PSX-Scene forums\">PSX-Scene forums<\/a>, &ldquo;the PS3 has totally failed in security, by botching the pki implementation it became possible to calculate the keys needed to sign everything, in short PUBLIC PRIVATE KEYS!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In regular-speak, this apparently means PS3 owners will be able to run unauthorised code on their consoles without the intervention of <a href=\" http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/ps3\/7213-New-PS3-hack-detectable-and-bannable-PSN.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"New PS3 hack is detectable and bannable on PSN\">USB disks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The group will be posting additional information when their <a href=\"http:\/\/fail0verflow.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"fail0verflow\">website<\/a> launches later today, but it seems their priority for the moment is to reinstate Linux functionality on PS3s.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming this actually works, the PS3 could effectively be more easily exploited by pirates than the Xbox 360, which requires additional hardware modding and risks a permanent ban from Xbox LIVE.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USB mod? We don\u2019t need no stinkin\u2019 USB mod<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"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":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189","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\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}