Sony Marketing Man Tweets PS3 Master Key 351
An anonymous reader writes "Sony Marketing Man, Kevin Butler's official Twitter feed retweets a post by @exiva that posts the PS3 Master key. Kevin Butler who has over 69,000 followers tweet read (The tweet now deleted): '@TheKevinButler Lemme guess... you sank my Battleship? RT @exiva: 46 DC EA D3 17 FE 45 D8 09 23 EB 97 E4 95 64 10 D4 CD B2 C2 Come at me, @TheKevinButler'" Here is a screenshot of the tweet.
I think (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:I think (Score:5, Insightful)
Can't be helped.
If console makers give up on securing their consoles with these fairly non-intrusive DRM and leave their consoles wide open like the PC, it's only common sense to expect PC like DRM from games.
Even if Sony, Big-N and MS does nothing to enforce copy protection, the game publishers will add their own.
IMO it's kind of a pick your poison situation.
Have the console maker do it via locking down their console or have the game publishers make a crazy mess of it.
Or... (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Well, this just goes to show ... (Score:4, Insightful)
69000 new IPs to subpoena?
A clever dupe! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:I think (Score:4, Insightful)
I don't keep up on 360 hacks but to my knowledge MS didn't have their signing key compromised though.
The only hacks I know of are messing with the DVD drive to play pirated games. Has anyone really gotten homebrew to run on that thing?
by putting in fixes and banning consoles and user accounts that break the EULA by hacking the system
I believe Sony would have fix it if they could - they did it with the PSP and the various hacks (etc the first PSP hack that exploited a bug in the TIFF viewer lib).
With the signing key in the wild, custom firmware that can evade detection won't be hard. Banning will be of limited effectiveness.
Re:I don't understand. why did this happen? (Score:5, Insightful)
I think you missed a major possibility:
5) As a marketing guy, he has no clue what he was looking at.
Look at his reply: "Lemme guess... you sank my Battleship?" He's guessing, he doesn't know what the string of characters is. He's in marketing, not engineering. That's why the message got removed, because someone who did know what they're seeing contacted him about it (and he's now probably hoping that he doesn't get fired for it).
Re:So... (Score:4, Insightful)
Doubtful. Not many people could tell what a private key is when looking at it, especially not a marketing type who doesn't deal with that shit. I'm betting it was just an ignorance mistake on the part of whoever was manning the Kevin Jack twitter account at that time. Just because you see an encryption key doesn't mean 99% of the rest of the world will know what it is.
Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Re:A clever dupe! (Score:5, Insightful)
The irony of the situation is how appropriate that response is, even in the new context.
Re:I think (Score:3, Insightful)
If you are referring to "Other OS", it's not targeting specific users because of EULA violations, it was patching of a "security" hole that effected all users.
Sony probably rather not do it, but it was either that or let people like Geohot do what they want with the hypervisor.
Game developers will not be happy, neither will gamers when they see rampant cheating online - both are their main source of income BTW.
They picked their poison, and frankly I don't blame them for the choice they made.