| o_O.Q said: "Because I would take the words of a cryptography expert over the words of a company" the expert himself says that the hack was fixed "I would be very surprised if this fix isn't hacked fairly quickly" regardless of whether he thinks it will be hacked quickly or not ( the fix was done months ago so obviously not quickly ) the fact remains that he acknowledges that it was fixed... which goes against what you've said "Dude, the exploit is still there" |
The sarcophaegus fix that they're mentioning secures new games that wish t use it. The fact of the matter is:
1. In order for those games to remain payable on old hardware, the old key must be present on disc.
2. In order to ensure all software on the shelf using the old key is still playabale, the system must still accept the old METLDR key with full access priviliges. Not doing so would destroy backward compatibility with such titles.
All that Sony has done is create the illusion that they have fixed an unfixable problem, and I don't blame them. If they outright admitted that there was nothing they could do, investor confidence in the system would plummet. Oh and look at that, they managed to get in someone who appears to be nonconfident with his statement ("at first glance...").
Sorry, I always see Sony more as a propoaganda machine than being the people who rewrite centuries of cryptography techniques to say they fixed a problem that all credible cryptography experts agree is unfixable. Do you really think that Sony came from having one of the most insecure, online gaming networks in April to suddenly make something so groundbreaking that it would rewrite cryptography forever......only to put it in their gaming system? Think logically, please.
