The Broken Ps3, And The Custom Firmware 'Status Announced.

Some days ago the German team "fail0verflow" has discovered a security hole through which it can operate at all levels in the firmware of the PS3 . The rumors appeared on Twitter first and then invade the network. From a few hours instead of George Hotz " Geohot "the notorious hacker, who has already put a strain on the Apple releasing various Jailbreak , released on its website the "Root Key METLDR PS3" . In the announcement on the site Geohot openly thanked the team fail0verflow for their work, and speaks out against piracy, ironic take on 'being the other side ", in his capacity as a manufacturer of consoles. In my opinion this is a rapid response to the promise made by a few days ago Geohot, as soon as he heard the Sony's will eliminate the possibility of installing other operating systems on the console. In practice, eliminating the "OtherOS" Sony has done nothing but take away (and is the first time this has happened in the world) an option to a product. Usually with the updates you add something, never takes off, it is almost as if one day the phone eliminates the Apple iPhone justifying it as an update of safety. However with the release of this Root Key, you can sign code Homebrew PS3 and run it believing it true, we just have to follow the evolution of the situation, with a safe and imminent release of the first custom firmware , and the first applications Homebrew, obviously Sony for its part will make its countermove, unless you can run for cover, because this time it seems that the underground has got the better, in fact, changing the Root Key, which is the encryption key, make all games already sold incompatible with the PS3. Meanwhile, in addition to the developments of GeoHot, PSGroove team has already announced the upcoming release of custom firmware , the issue as we learn from twitter should be in weeks.

Here is the "PS3 Master Key":
erk: EC C0 FE 84 D0 C2 27 F7 5B 7A 46 50 B8 7E 38 B2 E7 70 9F 93 9F F4 DA CB A3 F8 88 2B 12 48 1B E2
rev: 47 EE 74 54 C9 E4 B8 77 4C 96 0C 7B 59 F4 C1 4D
pub: C2 D4 AA F3 19 35 50 19 AF 99 D4 4E 2B 58 CA 29 25 2C 89 12 3D 11 D6 21 8F 40 B1 38 CA B2 9B 71 01 F3 AE B7 2A 97 50 19
A: 80 6E 07 52 97 A1 8F 90 AE EC 1A 02 DD BA 6f 74 17 AA A6 AF
No: E1 7E BC 3A 3A 1C CC EB C8 60 B5 6C AB DB FC 6A 04 8C 55 E1
K: BA 90 55 91 68 61 B9 77 ED AND CB F6 92 00 50 92 6C 7A 3D 8D
From: C5 B2 A4 A1 BF 13 16 DD F2 F2 ED C0 31 6D 47 20 06 70 FB DC

On the site of Geohot (geohot.com) you can download the tangible evidence of work done. In fact, putting the console in Service Mode and copy the file "LV2Diag.self" on a USB device we can run the first "Hello World" on PS3.