twesterm said:
darkknightkryta said:
twesterm said:
darkknightkryta said:
Geohotz hasn't done anything illegal, whether or not people use his work for piracy (Though if a certain bill in Canada gets passed it will be illegal here... hint hint... write your PMs to not let bill C-32 pass). The only thing that's possibly illegal is that he published a key that may be protected under copyrite law. But there's a problem with that, the key might not be copyrited since it's supposed to be random and their coders screwed up and made that random number return 4. The only way Sony will win this trial is if that key is copy protected and if it is Geohotz will loose and he shouldn't have released the keys but the way to get it.
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lol, your heart's in the right place but you have a few things mixed up.
The key isn't a random number (well, it's a specific number of random digits). They were able to find that key because they used the same random number over and over again. The other part you missed is that the random number is not 4 like the XKCD comic you're thinking makes it out to be, it's a very very large HEX number.
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The random number generator returns 4 (If what my co-worker told me and read is true), that random number is used to generate that long hex string.
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lol, you're co-worker is just wrong. He saw this xkcd comic that fail0verflow used in their presentation:
Just think about it for a second. If their secret random number that opened up the entire PS3, do you think it would take people that long to figure out it was 4?
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Yeah I edited my post above. I concede to you this time Twestern. But my point stands, this entire mess is if Sony copyrited the key or not. Geohotz can be very screwed if those keys are copyrited or if there's some kind of law that protects those keys (Not to sure), but if they're not he's done nothing illegal. So go someone find out if those keys are protected some how.
