Kevin Butler Accidently tweets the PS3 root key

I feel sorry for Sony.The root code is EVERYWHERE on the webs now.
This will be the PSP all over again....
 
Sounds like a former Sony employee, with access to the Twitter account, was seeking a little revenge?
 
chapped said:
Sounds like a former Sony employee, with access to the Twitter account, was seeking a little revenge?
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Kevin Butler is just a persona created by an ad agency. The account is probably manned by interns from said agency.
 
I thought the root key information was already spread over the Internet early January. Did they change the root key?
 
no the earlier incident over the root key in january was bout a hacker who found out how to edit the root key, but decided not to release it just yet due to some reason. it really does sound like some sony employee who was recently let go & still had access to that account, so he figured he would make them pay for this. then again, im just makin up stuff. point is itll be interesting to see what all happens now that the root key is out there.
 
Kevin Butler is managed by a separate PR Company, I doubt too many people at Sony have access to it.
Must have been some idiot at that PR Company who knew nothing. Granted, I thought they should have kept it up, as it's funny as hell.
 
So basically this means we can homebrew as much as we want undetected (IE backup games to external hard drives, homebrew apps, homebrew XMB, etc)???
 
That is not the root key. The root key was released by another hacker, and is still usable and floating around the internet. The guy is now in court with sony and has all his electronics related to the ps3 hacking impounded. The thing he found is not fixable. Sony would have to actually issue new hardware to everyone if they wanted to stop that.

This is just an exploit for the ps3, and I believe it's already been patched. I believe joystiq and kotaku had better articles on it.
 
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