A prominent Playstation 3 hacker is warning that Sony’s latest firmware update (3.60) effectively “re-secures” the console.
Youness Alaoui – aka KaKaRoToKS – is the author of PSFreedom, an open source Jailbreak patch.
Alaoui also created a PL3 payload for USB dongles which successfully infiltrated the PS3’s security system on firmware 3.41 and below.
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“For now, it looks to me (at first glance) that the PS3 has been re-secured, but it doesn’t mean it can’t be broken again from scratch,” Alaoui explained on Twitter.
According to Alaoui, the PS3’s pre-3.60 security was based on a “chain of trust” – where various layers of the console were secured by individual levels of encryption, with one granting access to the next.
However, the so-called chain of trust was unceremoniously snapped by the talented GeoHot – who identified the “mtldr” key, a root decryption cypher capable of unlocking all the others.
Enter the post-3.60 world. Sony has halted the use of mtldr, instead choosing to deploy a new digital security system. As such, hacking the PS3 is likely to require the discovery of a completely fresh exploit.
“[Yes], Sony’s epic fail was epic…[But] it doesn’t mean they can’t come [up] with an epic save,” added Alaoui.
(Via EuroGamer)