i'm honestly curious- do any of the fark lawyer types know how this will effect Sony's legal actions? does it have any effect?

So does that mean they are suing themselves?

It's actually not the root key, but the old dongle master key and its relatively obsolete- which is why the tweet has the sarcastic message "Lemme guess...you sank my battleship?"

It's still funny, though.

Farkettes and gentlefarkers...

We have just seen the greatest troll ever pulled off by a gaming company.

The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
We don't need you Sony let the homebrew games play-
Play, homebrew games- Play!

Whizzy: It's actually not the root key, but the old dongle master key and its relatively obsolete- which is why the tweet has the sarcastic message "Lemme guess...you sank my battleship?"

Also, there's the little matter of this.

The Dread Pirate Robertson: Whizzy: It's actually not the root key, but the old dongle master key and its relatively obsolete- which is why the tweet has the sarcastic message "Lemme guess...you sank my battleship?"

Also, there's the little matter of this.

Exactly!

Either the link is farked or they got a dmca take down notice.

/same thing is on /.
//that might screw your net pipe

Leeds: The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
We don't need you Sony let the homebrew games play-
Play, homebrew games- Play!

I totally read that to Snap's I've Got the Power (new window).

"It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic.."

DROxINxTHExWIND: Can somebody please break this shiat down in 'Merican?

Someone on twitter shot a message to the PR account to RT an outdated security key. PR account person thought "Oh hay, chance to make Battleship joke," posted a retweet containing the key. Everyone documents it, hilarity ensues. Actual Sony people went "OH shiatAKE THAT DOWN."

Benjimin_Dover: Leeds: The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
We don't need you Sony let the homebrew games play-
Play, homebrew games- Play!

I totally read that to Snap's I've Got the Power (new window).

"It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic.."

That's actually pretty cool. But now I've got that stuck in my head...

I actually typed it thinking of Fire Water Burn.

erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70

DROxINxTHExWIND: Thank you. Now, what does the key do? Will it allow me to play free downloadable PS3 games forever for free?

First, my mistake: it's not outdated. In before Sony sues us all.

All this key does is allow a device to enter service mode. Nothing fancy.

Benjimin_Dover: Leeds: The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
We don't need you Sony let the homebrew games play-
Play, homebrew games- Play!

I totally read that to Snap's I've Got the Power (new window).

"It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic.."

Think it was supposed to be the roof is on fire by the bloodhound gang...

/just sayen

tezdoll: Benjimin_Dover: Leeds: The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
The root, the root, the root is on Twitter.
We don't need you Sony let the homebrew games play-
Play, homebrew games- Play!

I totally read that to Snap's I've Got the Power (new window).

"It's gettin', it's gettin', it's gettin' kinda hectic.."

Think it was supposed to be the roof is on fire by the bloodhound gang...

/just sayen

Not the song title, its the lyrics

FTFM

PeregrineBF:

Not cool bro.

tezdoll: Think it was supposed to be the roof is on fire by the bloodhound gang...

You spelled Rock Master Scott & the Dynamic Three wrong.

F33D,4032,ASSC,ACT,US31,POO4,ON4Y,OUR,4SHO,ES4,1223,4764

I'm trying to decide if I should be sad or happy that I'm mostly clueless about all of this.

SearchN: impaler: 404,555,974,007,725,459,910,684,486,621,289,147,856,453,481,154

Weekly masturbation number?

Weekly? Who the hell is on a weekly schedule?

APE992: Hi-ho, hi-ho. Its off to claim he was a double agent trying to take down our video game division and now we launch him into the sun hi-ho. Hi-ho hi-ho hi-ho.

xBox.

RIP Butthead.

PeregrineBF: erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70

Remember the day fark tried to stop the HDDVD code? lawl

fatassbastard: I'm trying to decide if I should be sad or happy that I'm mostly clueless about all of this.

I'm in the same boat.

PeregrineBF: erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70

I don't get it, there are only 5 boats in battleship.

PeregrineBF: erk: C0 CE FE 84 C2 27 F7 5B D0 7A 7E B8 46 50 9F 93 B2 38 E7 70 DA CB 9F F4 A3 88 F8 12 48 2B E2 1B

riv: 47 EE 74 54 E4 77 4C C9 B8 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D

pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19

R: 80 6E 07 8F A1 52 97 90 CE 1A AE 02 BA DD 6F AA A6 AF 74 17

n: E1 3A 7E BC 3A CC EB 1C B5 6C C8 60 FC AB DB 6A 04 8C 55 E1

K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED CB ED 92 00 50 92 F6 6C 7A 3D 8D

Da: C5 B2 BF A1 A4 13 DD 16 F2 6D 31 C0 F2 ED 47 20 DC FB 06 70

Is this where you have to cross your eyes and you see a dolphin?

StrangeQ: Is this where you have to cross your eyes and you see a dolphin?

It's a schooner!

jst3p: StrangeQ: Is this where you have to cross your eyes and you see a dolphin?

It's a schooner!

No, it's a sailboat.

Me too. Seems like the first couple google links said it was a big deal and Sony was scrambling to get it down, in this thread I'm reading it's old news and doesn't matter. Personally I doubt allowing homebrew software is that big a deal, assuming that's what "service mode" is. If it does let people bypass the disc checks and play pirated games, Sony done shot themselves in the foot with hollow tip bullets.

Never gonna get a PS3 anyway. I keep my system manipulation about as severe as letting my brother recover my gamertag and glitch 1 or 2 On Demand titles so we can play together off the same copy.

Also this article makes it appear that Sony can just put out a software update to stop these kinds of things.

D_Evans45: Me too. Seems like the first couple google links said it was a big deal and Sony was scrambling to get it down, in this thread I'm reading it's old news and doesn't matter. Personally I doubt allowing homebrew software is that big a deal, assuming that's what "service mode" is. If it does let people bypass the disc checks and play pirated games, Sony done shot themselves in the foot with hollow tip bullets.

Never gonna get a PS3 anyway. I keep my system manipulation about as severe as letting my brother recover my gamertag and glitch 1 or 2 On Demand titles so we can play together off the same copy.

It kinda does, it allows dongles like usbps3break to load custom firmware which in turn allows you to backup games, runs emulators and play downloaded games. There are ways to do it without a dongle now but they are still useful for downgrading operating systems and repairing bricked systems.

D_Evans45: Also this article makes it appear that Sony can just put out a software update to stop these kinds of things.

This master key allows anyone to sign a copy of their game, be it homebrew or pirated. This allows anyone to make/clone games that will play on an unadulterated PS3, as opposed to one that has been jailbroken or rooted so that it doesn't check games to see if they are signed.

Sony cannot simply change the code. All games ever sold and all PS3's ever produced would have to be modified if the key was changed. That is an impossibility.

D_Evans45: Also this article makes it appear that Sony can just put out a software update to stop these kinds of things.


Nope... the genie is out of the bottle.
All they can hope to do is slow it down a little each update.

Also, the twittered key is not the root key (it's the dongle service mode key), is old and doesn't work in the latest firmware. The ones I posted are the actual root signing keys, and let you sign your own games/software to run it on the PS3. Could also be used to sign a pirated game, of course, but they took away OtherOS (among other things) after people payed for it. Steal from every PS3 owner and it's only right that we'll take back what they took away. The collateral damage of increased piracy is a side-effect. I don't condone piracy, but I also don't condone bait-and-switch marketing.
/Haven't bought anything Sony since the CD rootkit in 2005.
//Never will again.

Wow seems they did shoot themselves in the foot after all then. Poor, poor Sony.

You guys keep saying "dongle."

Fett56: Remember the day fark tried to stop the HDDVD code? lawl

*coffee exits nose violently*

Bahahaha! We need another one of those days. Badly. It's not that often I get to laugh so hard I wind up in the E.R. for some new sutures they gotta open my skull to put in before they orange orangutan oscar.

jst3p: It's a schooner streetlight!