Retail PS3 HDD decryption exposed as a FAKE

February 27, 2009

Thanks to emaster101 for giving us a heads up on this!

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Our hopes have been dashed to the rocks once again. News a few days ago about a retail PS3 unit’s HDD getting decrypted sure made quite a stir, but apparently, we’ve been hoodwinked. According to some investigations made by other hackers (special thanks to knightsolidus, idone, and NDT) on PS3News, the facts are these:

The files are real, but they were dumped from a TEST PS3 (old news), from its /dev_flash (Thanks NDT!) folder which is 100% accessable with a TEST.

Furthermore, the explanation of the “encryption” was all wrong (see my earlier post). On top of that, the real research done was ‘borrowed’ (to put it nicely) by DemonHades from the source… namely knightsolidus, who has been doing research with the PS3 HDD.

He made some interesting findings (hitting a similiar roadblock that we did, but we are now working together to try to get past it), however, currently no part of the hard disk drive has been decrypted.

Though the hackers who did the investigation are having no ill will towards DemonHades, they’re putting this drama aside and that “it would be appreciated if he came clean with his users so we all can move forward working together.”

Thanks to emaster101 for giving us a heads up on this!