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The 27th annual Chaos Communication Conference already hacked
encrypted GSM calls with a $15 cellphone, but there was a second
surprise in store this morn -- the souls who unlocked the Nintendo
Wii's homebrew potential (and defended it time and again) claim to
have broken into the PlayStation 3 as well. Last we left the black
monolith, Sony had won a round, forcing the community to downgrade
their firmware for any hope at hacking into the console. Well, the
newly formed fail0verflow hacking squad says that won't be a problem
any longer, because they've found a way to get the PS3 to reveal its
own private cryptography key -- the magic password that could let the
community sign its very own code.
So far, the team hasn't provided any proof that the deed's been done,
but they have provided quite an extensive explanation of how they
managed the feat: apparently, Sony didn't bother generating any random
numbers to secure the blasted thing. (We don't really know how it
works, but we have it on good authority that dead cryptography
professors are rapidly spinning in their graves.) The group intends to
generate a proof-of-concept video tomorrow, and release the tools
sometime next month, which they claim should eventually enable the
installation of Linux on every PS3 ever sold. Catch the whole
presentation after the break in video form, or skip to 33:00 for the
good stuff.
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