Never mind Lady Ga Ga and Beyonce the real celebrities in our geeky little tech world are the hackers and jailbreakers such as George “GeoHot” Hotz for example, (the notorious iPhone and PS3 jailbreaker.)
So what makes him so special? You ask. Well if you're a PS3 owner you may be interested in a little something he has just posted online.
A PS3 masterkey. Those with the key will have the ability to sign their own homebrew software, and have the PS3 think that it’s genuine.
In a short post, Hotz thanked the fail0verflow hacker team, who gave a presentation about the PS3’s security system just last week, for their assistance with the asymmetric part of the key.
Apparently poor Sony will have trouble changing this key without rendering a lot of PS3 software inoperable which would mean there would be nothing that Sony could really do to prevent people running their own homebrew software, or playing pirated games.
Hotz made it clear that he didn’t condone piracy, however, and hoped that people would use the key responsibly.
And then the cheeky blogger offered his services to Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in making their next consoles secure. Well you’ve got to give him points for ambition.
Source: escapist