Well well well, look at what wee have here. Well wee kinda seen this one coming. Today the fail0verflow team and geohot were served with a lawsuit from sony regarding the recent exploit info/tools by fail0verflow and the root key that was released by geohot. Geohot (being the first one to break news of it) has updated his website to the following:
geohot Wrote:As of 1/11/2011 7:20 PM EST, I have been served with papers, see below...
old front page, with relevant info removed, is here
contact me geohot ... gmail
any legal fund donation things you see are 100% fake as of now, don't get scammed
Not long after, fail0verflow posted on twitter confirming they have revived them as well.
Seems sony is very butthurt over this and do not want to see the PS3 turn out like the PSP, but it could already be to late for them. The Motion For TRO says there are also 100 more defendants they plan on serving the lawsuit to. What sony seems to forget is that is was not fail0verflow, nor geohot who enabled piracy, geohot's new 3.55 cfw disables the ability to run back up games (and also disables access to pooking lvl2) and fail0verflow has only informed the public of the flaw in the system for what it is and have yet to release any tools. Of course though, once the flood gates are open people will make it run back ups and that is what happened with geohots 3.55 cfw, with a few tweaks other hacker were able to run backups from geohot 3.55.
They can, but law is on geohot's (and flaivorflow's) side, they did nothing illegal, but sony has lawers, money, and corruption abilities on their side, so its lkely that they will be victorious
EDIT: apparantly i was wrong, need to read stuff better next time
Oh it cracks me up to think of why people started to do this spoon to the ps3, it is sony's fault for deleting other os, but seriously, sony removed all homebrew, only to crack the ps3 so wide open to homebrew that they can't fix it XD
By the way apparently you can violate the psn user agreement without having a psn account or agreeing to those in the first place.... 2 minutes ago via web.
-Mathieulh
At least that's according to the poo poo SCE lawyers wrote in their legal paperwork. I think they fail just as much as their security team. less than a minute ago via web
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Also fail0verflow "scrambled or encrypted keys derived from their circumvention of the TPMs on Twitter" ... 3 minutes ago via web
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1. No one encrypted the damn keys, all they posted were hashes. 2. They never posted the actual keys.
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"Until a few days ago, the efforts of these hackers were largely thwarted by the TPMs that secure the various (cont) http://tl.gd/837ca3 2 minutes ago via TwitLonger Beta
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"Because the PS3 System and its code are protected by these TPMs, users can neither access nor read the (cont) http://tl.gd/837e06 less than a minute ago via TwitLonger Beta
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I'll only say that their real good security measure was to have otheros in there, that gave a reason for the skilled hackers not to work. less than a minute ago via web
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When they removed otheros, things started falling like a house of cards. 15 minutes ago via web
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Sony is wrong, I can "Obtain such software" (firmware updates) without agreeing to any TOS, the TOS only appears upon (regular) install. 18 minutes ago via web
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Why does no one speak of how Sony is violating a large number of anti-trust laws worldwide while preventing their consoles interoperability 13 minutes ago via web
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Perhaps if they led us run our code on consoles wee purchased, those would never have been hacked.... 12 minutes ago via web
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They should just suck it up, face the truth and tell their licensees how they screwed up their console's security implementation. 8 minutes ago via web
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Oh! and they should hire decent security engineers (like hackers) rather than suing them, at least that'd have some form of effectiveness. 7 minutes ago via web
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