Hacking Group: "It's the beginning of the end for Sony"

[Kasz216]

The Fury said:

NJ5 said:

I think your distinction between hardware and software is wrong, both from a personal perspective and the legal perspective. It is legal to reverse engineer and alter software just as much as hardware (as long as no copyright laws are broken by distributing the altered software of course).

If he was a good person he would have told Sony about this obvious flaw, let them fix it with an update and never updated his PS3 so he can create all the homebrew he wants. Sony might have thanked him for that.

That would be the common procedure in the security community for security flaws in server software, but not when it's just about a jailbreak of a gadget which doesn't put any data at risk.

Did he not distribute the master code? Did he distribute customer firmware? If he did either of these he is in breach of those copyright laws.

The data at risk is in the form of software made and programmed by thousands of people the world over, whether it's the music contained within or the character designs. It's all contribution to a peice of work that could be stolen 'data'. This might not be data in the form of personal information on Joe Bloggs but it's still data at risk. Mr Hotz said he is against piracy, so he is surely security minded, he's contridicting himself by releasing how to pirate software on PS3 (even if he says it's for homebrew).

You do know that his custom firmware specifically disabled piracy right?

If your going to blame piracy on him for his firmware being hacked... then logically you have to blame the piracy on Sony... for having their firmware hacked.

Which would mean piracy was all Sony's fault.