really? so Ford sells the custom Recaro seats and BP gas you put into a Focus? Honda sells the Yokohama Advan wheels and Moton suspension and Sunoco gas you put into a Civic? WTF?
Your argument doesn't hold water. A person could purchase motors from Honda, modify them, then put them into a car of their own creation. These custom cars could become so popular that Honda loses substantial business for its own cars. So in this case, someone has taken Honda's motor a...
That was the point all along! Over a century of public education in the U.S. and longer in Europe and Asia. All of it intended to dumb down and cow the populace. Intended to produce workers for business but not innovators or leaders. People who think are dangerous to the status quo. Remove critical thinking, let the indoctrination begin! A population fed lies buried in half truths to make them easy to swallow, made dependent on government for every facet of their livelihood. This is al...
@ziggurcat
Honestly, that statement is just dumb. While Sony does not own the numbers, they are not obligated to give them out either.
Someone who figures out or guesses your bank account number and posts it hasn't really committed any crime either.
Someone who uses your bank account number without authorization is committing the crimes of fraud and theft. You don't own the number; the person who uses that number isn't in ...
@Mahr & Eamon
You are both wrong. Sony implemented a flawed version of ECDSA. Sony doesn't own the patent on this method. Anyone who wishes is free to implement the ECDSA algorithm. In fact, fail0verflow implemented it themselves and discussed it during their presentation on the cracking of the PS3. Since all cryptography boils down to mathematics, solving a system of equations is the necessary ingredient to crack any particular implementation. What fail0verflow d...
That type of hacking is to gain unauthorized access to a system the individual does not own. The type of hacking Geohot does is legal because people own their consoles and are absolutely authorized to access and use the hardware.
People don't seem to understand. The system is owned by the user. Breaking the security to be able to install custom firmware is completely legal. It is the only way to obtain enough priviledged access to the system to install custom firmwa...
@baodeus
Generally speaking, the most variety exists on the PC. You can find multiple games from any genre with varying levels of technical prowess and polish. I don't think the same can be said of consoles or handhelds. The limited hardware power and the fact that they are closed platforms does much to restrict the size and scope of gaming on consoles.
If I want quality, I go to the PC, not any of the consoles.
Is that why the gap between the PS3 and 360 is widening?
I don't think GH hacked the medical server. GeoHot likes to unlock hardware, not break into remote servers.
Bubs up, Blow gets it. Most developers get it, I think. I'm a developer and piracy really isn't a huge concern for me either. I see an increasingly less free future, not only in terms of computing but in general, as an overriding concern. The U.S. has been fascist for a long time, but it is good to see more and more people waking up to the facts. Most large corporations are openly hostile to their customers, but, as we can see from all the fanboys on N4G, good marketing and a few...
@dragonknight
You should just stop while you are ahead. The iPhone jailbreak involves the same type of hacking of the licensed Apple iOS that hacking the PS3 requires. In both cases, the OS and firmware were probed for potential exploits that would allow the hacker's code to run. Once the weakness was found, it was used to execute the code that gave the hackers full access to the hardware.
In both cases, the hackers do not "own" the origi...
The EFF will be all over this like flies on shit:
http://www.eff.org/press/ar...
QUOTE:
"The DMCA should not be abused to censor online discussion by people who are behaving perfectly legally," said Tom Cross, who blogs at memestreams.net. "It's legal to engage in reverse engineering, and its legal to talk about reverse engineering."
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I was just correcting the OP who said that the console is licensed. It is not, you own it. The OP further said that you don't any physical piece of property. This statement, again, is false.
Custom firware should, theoretically, replace Sony's firmware completely. This means the software running on the console would not be Sony's IP. The OS used would probably be Linux, which Sony definitely does not own. If Sony causes an eFuse to blow after the custom fi...
Sony does not "own" the key. This is the standard understanding in the entire security industry. Why? Because a key is just a number, and no single person can "own" a number. The only thing one can hope for is that your key is extremely difficult to figure out so that by the time it happens, and it will happen eventually, it is irrelevant to know the key anymore.
Sony cannot legally brick a console because the consumer has every right to expect that t...
Completely false. Any physical item you purchase, you own. There is an implied transfer of ownership at the time of purchase, with or without title. The concept is called "personal property," or more specifically "tangible personal property," and has its own category of law. I suggest you study up on it.
What Geohot and Fail0verflow did was perfectly legal.
ECDSA is an open specification and available for anyone to implement. Figuring out the solution to a math problem and them publishing the solution is not illegal, which is what happened when the private key was discovered. Sony does not "own" a number, which is all the private key is. A private key is not Sony's IP. Nobody infringed on Sony's IP to get the key because Sony does not own the patent ...
@tplarkin7 & dragon_hiko
It's pointless to argue console exclusive vs. exclusive. Microsoft makes the predominant OS for the PC and is virtually the only OS for gaming. If something is available for both Windows and the 360, then MS benefits either way. Whether it is only available on the 360 or available on a Windows PC and the 360, the games are driving revenue towards MS and are not driving revenue towards Sony or Nintendo.
the hackers solved a math problem and posted the answer. that isn't illegal. sony was dumb enough to make one of the variables a constant. posting encryption keys is not illegal.
looks like some fanboys might need a little of this:
http://www.mountainside-med...
Pretty sure that getting the MS hacks to work involved a little bit of reverse engineering and code distribution.
The current PS3 hacks also integrate with the OS rather than modify it.