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Kasz216 on 26 April 2011
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imaprettyhotguy said:
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Winning the case means they can easily win against any future hackers, and because of their markets in developing countries Sony has the most to gain by keeping pirates off their system, I don't think they regret it, they have to take a stand and have better secruity then everyone else in order to keep pirating down on their system, the ps3 is far less pirated and has far less cheaters online then the other 2 consoles and pc


They didn't win though... they settled out of court, and didn't even make him sign an acceptance  of blame.   While yes, they clearly have better security, what with there online being the only online currently up and running....

Wait.  It's the exact opposite.  This lawsuit theoretically has made their security LESS safe because they put a big target on their head that's caused 2 hacking incidents.

Oh please it will be over in a week and Sony will come out with a more secure system and everyone knows it, if anything they are flushing the people out 

If it was that easy... I'd think the PSP would be more secure.  Wouldn't you?

Or every other system would do the same.   What makes you think Sony is god's gift to security programming?

They kept hackers off the ps3 for a record amount of time, and if I am to understand the psp situation it was hardware not software that was hacked and Sony didn't do any fighting for it so what makes you think they can't?

They kept hacekrs off ps3 for a record amount of time for the same reason Apple did with the Mac.  It's the best DRM there is.  It's called low marketshare.

Once the PS3 got more successful, hackers started paying attention and it was hacked.

What makes me think Sony can't?  Well that would be because they lost their master signing key... which turns out to not be random... even though it's suppsoed to be.

That's what was hacked. 

A master signing key is basically, the key that comes with the console at launch that tells sony made products from non sony products.  The products that are official get there own "key".

Normal hacks, cause the system to not do it's "authentication check."  It's easy to upgrade your firmware and change how the system does it's authentication heck.

This hack, causes the system to not know what is a sony game and what isn't... and you can't change the master key because if you did... every product BEFORE you changed the key would stop working on the PS3. 


Master Keys are pretty much NEVER hacked, because it's near impossible to do because the number is random with each product, meaning you'd need a LARGE LARGE LARGE sample of keys from different products and probably a powerful computer to run the numbers.  It'd be a lot of effort for no game.

Sony, didn't use a random number with each product.

So it took 3 keys... and a pencil and paper.  This is why I think Sony can't do it.