Sony Suing Geohot and others over PS3 Hacking

[nikosx]

damndl0ser said:

nikosx said:

In my opinion the ps3 root key it's not "your" key. It's not part of the hardware.  I may be wrong but I think a private key is like a signature. It's Sony's property and you cannot own it. I'm not sure if it's ok to distribute private keys.

Geohot said to BBC that he is "scared of being hit with a lawsuit". "I am confident I would win since what I released was just a number obtained by running software on the PS3 I purchased".

Since he talks about numbers ant not root keys it may be not ok/legal to distribute.

 

I guess you and Sony agree with this.  However most people in the world do not.  You may sign an agreement with Sony in order to receive updates etc..  But its been proven in court over and over that most of these agreements are not worth the paper they are printed on or the time spent typing one up digitally.  

There have been many many EULA agreements beaten in court, and they are basically scare tactics.

I know that and I don't think Sony will win this. 

But i don't like the idea of distributing private keys over the internet. If someone hacks and distributes the private key I use for signing my e-mails everybody could impersonate me and that would be bad (for me).

Ppl think it's ok because Sony are the bad guys but where do you draw the line ???