Hacker Claims To Have The PS3's Front Door Keys
Found on Kotaku on Sunday, 02 January 2011
Hacker Claims To Have The PS3's Front Door KeysFamed hacker George "GeoHot" Hotz, who among other things helped crack the iPhone, reckons he's found what are essentially the keys to the PlayStation 3. And has posted them online for the world to see.
The root key is a signature of sorts, that lets the PS3 know that the program that's about to run on the console is a legitimate piece of software.
The PS3 lasted for some time, but this was pretty much inevitable. I bet Sony will rage about this, but it may also boost sales now that people are free to run the OS they want.