Mathieulh: “I told Sony how to prevent the copy of UMDs 2 years ago, they never replied”
There was a pretty interesting live discussion between Magixien and Mathieulh yesterday on pspgen.com.
Mathieu of course mentioned the recent work about the PSP keys found in the PS3 hardware. He stated that with the open source Kirk implementation [recently released by Draan, based on hints by Mathieulh and team work by a bunch of talented devs <– may I say I hadn’t seen so many “PSP All stars” in a forum thread since the Pandora days?], anybody with enough skills could create an application to sign user mode homebrews for the PSP, “with 1 or 2 hours of work”.
He also confirmed that kernel mode would be more of a challenge, as the Kirk implementation on the PS3 is incomplete [I almost feel relieved for Sony here]. If you’re (extremely) computer savy you can have a look at the technical discussions on this subject here.
The discussion also went on the Utopia project, an open source firmware project for the PSP (Mathieulh’s “pet” project on the PSP back in the old days, which sadly was never really completed due to lack of support from the scene… Mathieu if you read this, some of the code in Utopia was a key factor in running the first homebrew with HBL. So, although it is true that few devs contributed directly to the Utopia project, it was still a very useful project for the scene)
Magixien and Mathieu then mentioned the upcoming security in the PSP2 and the 3DS (unsurprisingly, they expect these two consoles to have quite stronger security than their older sisters, but said we can’t really know before the actual devices hit the market), however, Mathieulh half-jokingly said that the security on the PSP/PS3 was not good, and that Sony should consider hiring people who have stronger skills in security (such as ex-hackers) for their next consoles. He mentioned as an anecdote:
About two years ago I sent an email to Sony, and told them: “I know how to prevent the copy of UMDs on your PSP”. I gave them all the details on how to proceed, it worked and …well it made UMD copy basically impossible on the PSP. They never took my idea into account, they never replied to me. That tells us a lot about their way [of dealing with security]
I personally think that Sony should have some kind of bat-signal that triggers when people like Mathieulh offer their services for free in matters of security 😀
Source pspgen, you can see the recorded interview here, if you speak French of course 🙂
For doing what, spreading the news?
for HBL!! HBL is main base of hacks
HBL doesn’t circumvent any DRM,so that’s kind of a different issue.
The DCMA is such a joke on mankind. That law makes me sick.
It’s not a lawsuit, it’s a restraining order based on the flimsiest charges I’ve ever seen and aimed at slowing doing down the hacking process by keeping geohot and fail0verflow away from their computers. However, the keys are already out there and can be used by anyone to sign anything. So this is pointless.
They obviously saw it coming, thats why they made these public, now everyone and there momma should have a copy by now, and if not download a copy while it’s still online.
Sony wasting money on lawyers… I am selling my Sony Stock ASAP. They are a bunch of monkeys in suits selling bananas to people and telling people “they must be eaten with the skin on”.
Sony has lost touch with reality. They have brought this all on themselves with their arogance. Sell your Sony stock!
A bunch of monkeys in suits throwing poop at their customers.
i agree well they cant decide what people want to do with there overpriced gizmos consoles….they should remember it not a leased car its paid gizmo….well its lost battle for them ….i hope some other company comes up with a much better affordable gizmo
”Im done. all i need now is for wololo to contact me for the first copy of the files.” Do you have no sort of presence at all? You’re an unexperienced coder, and you have absolutely no proof that any of this works, yet you expect Wololo to contact you? Wow.
Oh, and Spidermonkey, I’m not antagonizing him, I’m just pointing out mere facts, and I honestly don’t see how ”I haven’t put out anything” has ANYTHING to do with this conversation.
YOU SHOULD BE THANKFULL IM RELEASING THE HACKS EARLY AND THAT I HAVE VIDEO PROOF.
where´s that video?
@psp developer: thanks for your trust, but if you want to contact me please send me an email directly. I get contacted an awful lot by people who have no clue what they’re talking about, so my policy is to not reply to people who don’t have the necessary proof. I’m not talking about a video, but rather an email describing your techniques and/or some proof of concept.
I did email you.
can’t find anything in my email box from your email address (unless you’re using a different address on the blog), please send me the email again.
Lol, at the SCEA protection issue. What Protection? Sony decides that they STILL have the upper playing field here, while they’re probably the ones going to end up losing *** loads of money, upon whatever millions of dollars they just lost because of this entire dilemma.
Does anyone here able to use PS3 as a linux server? esp. for the phat version
i emailed you today.
hey. where and when you gonna release your downgrader???
@psp developer ….u can always release ur downgrader here if u don’t want to release it …shut up….don’t put *** here and u discuss privately someplace else
He’s lying after all 🙁 Well, better wait for someone to make a downgrader for 6.35 that isn’t him or Davee…like *cough* Total_Noob 😛
Actually I released it 2days ago on my website
LOL in your secret and hidden website, which dwells in your imagination xD
exactly XD
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