Carnegie Mellon Professor Challenges Sony

[ultimate.fake.ac]

He didn't say anything like that, he said "If you want your next console to be more secure, get in touch. It'd be nice to be on the other side for once". He didn't say it would happen again if he wasn't hired, or that it wouldn't happen if he was, just that it may be a bit less likely to happen if he was.

I went to look over things again and yes, you are right. It was worded well enough that even on this point sony is grasping at straws.

 

[melkor42x]

I believe that he and the school are immune to being sued. I've seen and attended a bunch of Master thesis's that are about ways to break encryption and things of that nature. Universities are allowed to post Technical papers about these kinds of things. I believe they still have info about breaking DVD encryption on their servers. They can sue but it will get thrown out of court. Academic use.

 

[HaniKazmi]

Sony VS Carneige Mellon

I'm sure the professor looked up the legal side before doing this, and/or asked his superiors.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Basically, it's Technology versus Law. HAHA!

This professor knows that he's not going to be teaching for a long time right? He should E-mail his students about his unusual absence.

I think you should have a look around the Profs site. He definitely aint no biatch that Sony can try to intimidate into submission.

 

[Fireballo]

Yup Sony is making hackers determined to rip apart what little security is left on the PS3 and PSP. By Sony taking this course of action will make the future PS4 a prime target of every hacker in the world. Lets see how long it takes the PSP2 to get hacked after all this. Would have saved themselves a lot of heart ache and money if they just left other OS alone.

 

[SifJar]

Yup Sony is making hackers determined to rip apart what little security is left on the PS3 and PSP. By Sony taking this course of action will make the future PS4 a prime target of every hacker in the world. Lets see how long it takes the PSP2 to get hacked after all this. Would have saved themselves a lot of heart ache and money if they just left other OS alone.

Yeah, if I had the skill and knowledge, I'd do my very best to make sure I got in a nice lawsuit with Sony [/sarcasm]

IMO, it will put people off.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

It'll put people off of releasing things not working on it. But the ever supportive scene can do that all by itself.

Oh it'll all be out there, but it won't get handed to anyone. People will have to dig.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

It'll put people off of releasing things not working on it. But the ever supportive scene can do that all by itself.

Oh it'll all be out there, but it won't get handed to anyone. People will have to dig.

I doubt it. It's very easily to release something anonymously these days.

 

[cwstjdenobs]

Still doesn't mean they will release in at all a public manner even if they do. Even if they can. While it's true an hacker has got to hack, that's where any "obligation" ends. How much do you think people have what they haven't or even just won't share this gen? Shit loads man.

 

[xdmario1]

They just had to call it "The Most Secure Gaming Console" and "Uncrackable". Now look what happened, Hackers FTW!

 

[Ziggy Zigzagoon]

Considering how not only did Sony have a rather poor security system but also sent haphazard ways to attampt to get him arrested, the site getting mirrored is rather what they deserve.

 

[codezer0]

And now Lordkat is miroring the key as well.

 

[MelodieOctavia]

They just had to call it "The Most Secure Gaming Console" and "Uncrackable". Now look what happened, Hackers FTW!

To be fair Sony never said that themselves. Those words only came from Sony fanboys.

 

[Matthew]

Lol, straight after readin this I decided to set up a mirror of the keys so my site auto redirects to them, but really, my site is shit so I don't really expect any attention due to fact no one goes on it

 

[chyyran]

I mirrored the keys myself on webs.

 

[Shano56]

lol..geohot already reposted the keys back to his site the other day.

 

[Nollog]

Lol, straight after readin this I decided to set up a mirror of the keys so my site auto redirects to them, but really, my site is shit so I don't really expect any attention due to fact no one goes on it

a re-direct is useless.
You need to grab all the html and put them on your server for it to be a mirror.

 

[Centrix]

Sony need to just except the facts that their screwed an move on its not like there gonna loose any more money then they usually loose from the lack of PS3 sales. The biggest thing Sony will have to do if they want any hope of winning the case is to convince the courts and jury that a number is illegal which I can tell you right now will never fly.

 

[ultimate.fake.ac]

I think sony's intention is more as a scare tactic, which has backfired because the people they are directing it at are willing to stand up for what they believe in despite sony being a corporate bully.

 

[TankedThomas]

I want to see bad things happen to all these people, especially George Hotz. Why? I want to see them suffer, for no other reason than for my amusement. I don't care about PS3 hacks anyway, because right when the PS3 was starting to get far better, the hackers came along and screwed it all up with their piracy crap. I guess there are still good games released for the PSP (uh.... I can name one: Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, although I'm sure there are more....) but the only consoles currently worth hacking would be the Wii and DS, if you can even count the DS as "hacked", considering 99% of people just use flash cards, and not CFW of any kind.