Comments on: New Security Fixes in v3.60 Firmware http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/ Tue, 21 May 2013 03:44:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: UbeRamza http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/#comment-309615 UbeRamza Sat, 12 Mar 2011 16:31:34 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=39288#comment-309615 <blockquote cite="comment-309493"> <strong><a href="#comment-309493" rel="nofollow">Suplex57</a></strong>: <p>that controller option has always been there…..i had my ps3 for over a year or 2 and i been using that option for a loong time…thats just something they wanted to add in so no one wont try to notice the security update  <br /><a class=comment_quote_link title="Click here or select text to quote comment" onmousedown="quote('309493', 'Suplex57', 'comment','div-comment-309493', false, false); try { addComment.moveForm('div-comment-309493', '309493', 'respond', '39288'); } catch(e) {}; return false;" href="javascript:void(null)" rel="nofollow"><br />^</a></p><p></p> </blockquote> Yes, the auto off feature for the controller has always been there. The only difference now is that you can set the time limit now instead of it only shutting off at one preset time.

Suplex57:

that controller option has always been there…..i had my ps3 for over a year or 2 and i been using that option for a loong time…thats just something they wanted to add in so no one wont try to notice the security update  

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Yes, the auto off feature for the controller has always been there. The only difference now is that you can set the time limit now instead of it only shutting off at one preset time.

]]> By: Nick http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/#comment-309582 Nick Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:12:22 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=39288#comment-309582 hacker-ish person here, but admittedly one who doesn't even own a PS3 and is just reading out of curiousity (360 hacking is more fun...). But if what I've read so far is all correct, this security update probably isn't going to last too long. Assuming that the metldr key is the root key for Sony's encryption, then their entire system is built ontop of it. There is no way to change this root key without disabling all current functions, basically, all PS3s with that key will always be vulnerable. It may be that Sony managed to add some fairly complex abstraction layers between the root key and the encryption, but at the end of the day it's just a firmware update. Firmware can be cracked relatively easy, I'd be surprised if the PS3 scene isn't already hard at work doing just that. I give it a week, maybe two. hacker-ish person here, but admittedly one who doesn’t even own a PS3 and is just reading out of curiousity (360 hacking is more fun…). But if what I’ve read so far is all correct, this security update probably isn’t going to last too long.

Assuming that the metldr key is the root key for Sony’s encryption, then their entire system is built ontop of it. There is no way to change this root key without disabling all current functions, basically, all PS3s with that key will always be vulnerable.

It may be that Sony managed to add some fairly complex abstraction layers between the root key and the encryption, but at the end of the day it’s just a firmware update. Firmware can be cracked relatively easy, I’d be surprised if the PS3 scene isn’t already hard at work doing just that. I give it a week, maybe two.

]]> By: dave http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/#comment-309499 dave Fri, 11 Mar 2011 02:51:45 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=39288#comment-309499 well if thats the case, Iam glad for sony trying to keep these hakers away and sony has every right to sneak security updates, and its nothing you can do about it, but I will say it again if you dont do any bad things on it then you have nothing to worry about, cause I dont like it when people want to mess up a good pice of hardware, and mess it and punish everyone else cause of 1 or 2 or 3 people that wants to @#$% it up. well if thats the case, Iam glad for sony trying to keep these hakers away and sony has every right to sneak security updates, and its nothing you can do about it, but I will say it again if you dont do any bad things on it then you have nothing to worry about, cause I dont like it when people want to mess up a good pice of hardware, and mess it and punish everyone else cause of 1 or 2 or 3 people that wants to @#$% it up.

]]> By: Suplex57 http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/#comment-309493 Suplex57 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:17:38 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=39288#comment-309493 that controller option has always been there.....i had my ps3 for over a year or 2 and i been using that option for a loong time...thats just something they wanted to add in so no one wont try to notice the security update that controller option has always been there…..i had my ps3 for over a year or 2 and i been using that option for a loong time…thats just something they wanted to add in so no one wont try to notice the security update

]]> By: dave http://www.ps3blog.net/2011/03/10/new-security-fixes-in-v3-60-firmware/#comment-309484 dave Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:25:27 +0000 http://www.ps3blog.net/?p=39288#comment-309484 you could turn the controller on the last update, you always had that option to turn off the controller. you could turn the controller on the last update, you always had that option to turn off the controller.

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