PS3 cracked wide open..!!!

Anyone else seen the news about the PS3 master keys been hacked from the PS3? Watch out in the coming months as the PSN is likely to become a cess pit of cheaters and hacked games!!! If you thought the xbox Jtag hacked games for xbox were bad you havent seen anything yet.. Uhoh!

As soon as Sony finds out, they'll release an update that is going to solve the problem. So, there is no possible way this is going to happen, in my opinion...

If you actually watched the conference you'd know their main goal is not the piracy of games but other things like bringing back Linux but before it gets to far Sony will most likely stop them since they revealed what they are exploiting. And how can you already call it worse than hacked 360s? I doubt you've been to the future.

...So your PS3 isn't cracked wide-open? Dang... I wanted to play mad scientist!

Its WIIIDDDEEEE open..! The master keys are the keys that allow you to sign all the files on the system. They can be changed BUT doing so would make all previously signed files invalid, so basically all games and content prior to the change would not work. The keys allow hackers to make "official" programs / apps which are indistinguishable from anything else. Sony can't make a whit list of approved things because the master keys allow this to be change as easily as editing a txt document and its indistingushable to sony. Read up people, its the end days of the PS3. PS4 just got a lot closer on the horizon..

The master keys were never found on the xbox so they never had full access to the systems. Jtag machines can create hacked games but are easily detected and banned within a day. This means the hacked games are limited and the number's are reducing as the KV needed to access live are very limited now as they are slowly banned.

The conferance people, teamoverflow I believe, don't want to instigate piracy but the master keys will allow anyone to do this and there are always programmers willing to do this.

Hate to break it to you but the DS, Wii, 360, PSP and PC (lol) have been hacked for years and they are all doing just fine... There are a lot of people that choose to support the people who make video games.MethodManFTW

I dont think you understand. Piracy is not the problem, it has a minimal effect on a console, regardless of what some people may argue. Piracy in itself wont hurt PS that much, having the master keys will. Hackers and programmers can edit anything on the console, create any kind of program and interact with the PS3 and PSN in any way they want. The PSP is highly hacked but they never had the master keys untill yesterday. The access the master keys give is equal to the access Sony have. The only thingSong has as an advantage is knowledge of how the system works, but even that will diminish as hackers explore the system.

To give some kind of idea of the damage this will cause think of trainer for pc games. Hackers can now alter anything in a game, anything at all. Unlimited health / weapons / god mode / crash games.. they could even create DLC which gives new weapons if they were talented enough (not going to happen but gives you an idea of the access they now have)

I dont think you understand. Piracy is not the problem, it has a minimal effect on a console, regardless of what some people may argue. Piracy in itself wont hurt PS that much, having the master keys will. Hackers and programmers can edit anything on the console, create any kind of program and interact with the PS3 and PSN in any way they want. The PSP is highly hacked but they never had the master keys untill yesterday. The access the master keys give is equal to the access Sony have. The only thingSong has as an advantage is knowledge of how the system works, but even that will diminish as hackers explore the system.

To give some kind of idea of the damage this will cause think of trainer for pc games. Hackers can now alter anything in a game, anything at all. Unlimited health / weapons / god mode / crash games.. they could even create DLC which gives new weapons if they were talented enough (not going to happen but gives you an idea of the access they now have)

[QUOTE="MethodManFTW"]Hate to break it to you but the DS, Wii, 360, PSP and PC (lol) have been hacked for years and they are all doing just fine... There are a lot of people that choose to support the people who make video games.LURCH87

I think I'll be just fine. What was your purpose of posting this anywyas?

I find it funny how some people believe that Sony can just release an update and fix this. Once a system has been cracked, thats it. There really is no containing piracy. There is no magic update that could fix this. Some people just don't understand this.

I find it funny how some people believe that Sony can just release an update and fix this. Once a system has been cracked, thats it. There really is no containing piracy. There is no magic update that could fix this. Some people just don't understand this.

UnknownElement4

Sony isn't worrying because the amount of people doing this is insignificant.

[QUOTE="UnknownElement4"]

I find it funny how some people believe that Sony can just release an update and fix this. Once a system has been cracked, thats it. There really is no containing piracy. There is no magic update that could fix this. Some people just don't understand this.

MrSelf-Destruct

Anyone else seen the news about the PS3 master keys been hacked from the PS3? Watch out in the coming months as the PSN is likely to become a cess pit of cheaters and hacked games!!! If you thought the xbox Jtag hacked games for xbox were bad you havent seen anything yet.. Uhoh!

_fark_

Um, some games are already hacked. Ever play any of the COD games lately...? You didn't need to hack the PS3's security to do that..

I don't think people understand... The PS3 is about to be at Dreamcast level piracy, except you don't even need to burn anythingistuffedsunny

I don't think it'll be that bad. Dreamcast had no protection at all.

Personally, I think Sega counted on that GD-ROM a little too much.

I was going to post this a couple of days ago but I didn't want to get modded. Anyway, Hacking is not Pirating. Pirates do use hacks, but they are not synonymous.

[QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"][QUOTE="UnknownElement4"]

I find it funny how some people believe that Sony can just release an update and fix this. Once a system has been cracked, thats it. There really is no containing piracy. There is no magic update that could fix this. Some people just don't understand this.

hiryu3

Link?

Link?

1bigsmoke55

Google "fail0verflow"

I dont know if I should be excited that the PS3 will become an all in 1 console that will pretty much play all previous generation games and be a pc, or be highly disappointed that PSN is probably going to be utterly destroyed..

I think you should go do someresearchbefore commenting on things. When I post things I expect people who are informed to post sensible things back, not random comments from people who don't know the first thing about what they are commenting on..

I think you should go do someresearchbefore commenting on things. When I post things I expect people who are informed to post sensible things back, not random comments from people who don't know the first thing about what they are commenting on..

_fark_

You Expected? :lol:

Yeah.....Sensible as well? LOL, don't try to contradict yourself by telling me to get research. You don't even have a link.

Anyone else seen the news about the PS3 master keys been hacked from the PS3? Watch out in the coming months as the PSN is likely to become a cess pit of cheaters and hacked games!!! If you thought the xbox Jtag hacked games for xbox were bad you havent seen anything yet.. Uhoh!

I don't really care about hackers. I'm happy to have a look of my total library of over 500 games and I won't go the route of some cheap man. Only thing that bugs me are the sales that go back on games, but I do see the appeal of using custom programs on the PS3. I don't think we'll get directly affected by this since cheaters will be obvious and I'm pretty sure Sony will ban them from PSN

I think you should go do someresearchbefore commenting on things. When I post things I expect people who are informed to post sensible things back, not random comments from people who don't know the first thing about what they are commenting on..

_fark_

Before harping on someone else, you should practice what you preach. You aren't exactly a set standard of intellect either...

It was going to happen. No one should be surprised. The hackers deserve a round of applause doing it actually, they're seriously talented.

[QUOTE="_fark_"]

I dont know if I should be excited that the PS3 will become an all in 1 console that will pretty much play all previous generation games and be a pc, or be highly disappointed that PSN is probably going to be utterly destroyed..

1bigsmoke55

What the **** are you talking about?

thats exactly what I said to myself before i scrolled down and read your post. lol

I only got 2 words. Oh crap.

bro i think your misunderstanding. its not THAT big of a deal. They aren't gonna do as much as you think they will..

Haha sorry, rushed message whilst half asleep. Well I would post a link but I'm pretty sure the whole thread would get deleted and I would be modded. Anything to do with hacking usually ends up that way. If you have a google search for "ps3 master key geohot" you will find all the info you need.

What I meant to say before was that the keys now allow the console to be opened up and modded essentially into a pc through custom fw. There will also be massive advances in emulators, allowing you to emulate pretty much every previous console. Pretty exciting news and can't wait to see what the developers produce and think up. It wont be long before we see some homebrew utilising microsofts kinect on the PS3 either. There are some talented people out there who got things to where they are..!

On the down side the access they have opens the console and PSN wide open to hacking online games. I can't even begin to think of the crap people are going to pull on PSN in the next year. It wouldn't be a problem if a select few developers released signed packages for everyone to use on their console but releasing the master keys means anyone can do this themselves. This means any developer with some skill and determination to be a complete A-hole can cause havoc with the PSN netowrk. I'm not even exaggerating, the PSN network could be brought to its knees with relative ease.

Link?

1bigsmoke55

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-security-in-tatters?page=1

Here's the link. I still don't get how the PSN could get 'destroyed', TC

Haha sorry, rushed message whilst half asleep. Well I would post a link but I'm pretty sure the whole thread would get deleted and I would be modded. Anything to do with hacking usually ends up that way. If you have a google search for "ps3 master key geohot" you will find all the info you need.

What I meant to say before was that the keys now allow the console to be opened up and modded essentially into a pc through custom fw. There will also be massive advances in emulators, allowing you to emulate pretty much every previous console. Pretty exciting news and can't wait to see what the developers produce and think up. It wont be long before we see some homebrew utilising microsofts kinect on the PS3 either. There are some talented people out there who got things to where they are..!

On the down side the access they have opens the console and PSN wide open to hacking online games. I can't even begin to think of the crap people are going to pull on PSN in the next year. It wouldn't be a problem if a select few developers released signed packages for everyone to use on their console but releasing the master keys means anyone can do this themselves. This means any developer with some skill and determination to be a complete A-hole can cause havoc with the PSN netowrk. I'm not even exaggerating, the PSN network could be brought to its knees with relative ease.

_fark_

Stop Worrying about it. Sheesh.

[QUOTE="hiryu3"][QUOTE="MrSelf-Destruct"] It depends on how they're getting in. Some things can be fixed with an update. Others can't. Nobody here knows which this is, because none of us know the system better than Sony. -ArchAngeL-777-

I not an expert on this, but cant they just fix the weakenss of the program with an update befor they start to have a massive acces to the keys?

P.S. sorry for the bad english.

sigh. wtf.

I not an expert on this, but cant they just fix the weakenss of the program with an update befor they start to have a massive acces to the keys?

P.S. sorry for the bad english.

Wait so I can have a PS3 Slim with backwards compatibility?!!?!