Despite the fact that you have been under a rock somewhere recently you will of course have heard of the latest PS3 hack. The latest PS3 hack sees the release of what are called the lvl0 keys or bootloader keys. Whatever updates Sony throw at the console in the coming months cam now be decoded and their secrets exposed. This is big news in the scene once again with it hitting mainstream news and tech sites all over the web. As time goes by we are getting more snippits of information on how this leak happened the behind the scenes dealings that have been going on recently show the PS3 scene in a very poor light a situation that hasnt changed from the Christmas that Fail0verflow and Geohot dominated the CCC conference. Actually an inner circle of elite PS3 devs had the keys but were never going to make them publicly available. For once maybe the scene is grateful to some unknown Chinese hackers who actually had bad intentions for the scene. By stealing the keys from an encrypted server they hoped to cash in. It would seem these hackers were going to release a new branch of the CFW for the PS3. They once more had plans to lock it with their own DRM protection and make people pay for the Custom Firmware updates. This spurred the original developers to release all the keys they held publicly and for free on pastebin to stop the release of the DRM protected CFW. From one angle the timing of this release to Christmas and the launch of the Super Slim PS3 could be good news with an influx of new customers for Sony.
The really best thing of course to result from this is that in future it will likely be a fairly easy little case for you to patch newer firmwares. Find the log on code so that access to PSN/SEN can not be blocked by means of an update! So we can look forward to updated CFW for quite some time to come. With many probably incorrectly predicting that this is the final win in the ongoing PS3 hacking cat and mouse game that started way back in august of 2010. Remember we have been here before with Fail0verflow predicting the console was wide open. This could also be bad news for many of the PS3 Mod Chip suppliers out there as the free download spreads to every PS3 forum.
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