Sony and hackers at daggers drawn
The battle between Sony and hackers has been going on for years, with the latter stubbornly trying to prove that they have the industry giant by its neck.
After spending millions of dollars on the development of PlayStation, especially PlayStation 2 and its successor, it is only natural for Sony to expect a decent return for its efforts and investment.
The publishers lending their support to the company to make its product gain a strong appeal among the masses have also been looking for a reward, which normally comes in the form of money that the people pay to buy their games.
Consumed by their lust for superiority and respect, the hackers have enjoyed taken a hit at the software that Sony had initially referred to as perfect.
As the company made the claim that the security of its PlayStation 2 and later PlayStation 3 software is unbreakable, hackers took it as a challenge and directed their efforts to finding a way through whatever gates and walls Sony had put up to keep it from
getting compromised.
After getting the better of PlayStation 2 and softening it up for p****y, the hackers only got to rest for a bit before finding themselves staring at yet another challenge, this time a challenge greater than the one that they had faced before, the PlayStation
3 software.
After various attempts and countless sleepless nights, they were finally able to do what Sony had thought of as impossible. A security layer was breached and custom firmware was made available for users to install in their system, thus finally being able
to play pirated games.
However, Sony had no intention of acting as a mere spectator to this act of war and release a new security update to put up a stronger barrier, but unfortunately it was not enough to keep the hackers at bay.
A series of security updates and their hack followed, before the company eventually managed to keep the hacked PlayStation 3 locked at 3.55.
Things seemed to have reached an impasse, but last month, a hacking group identifying itself as “The Three Tuskateers” dealt a heavy blow to Sony by releasing the master key to PlayStation 3’s security, LV0, last before. Within the next 24 hours, a custom
firmware followed.
Described as the mother of all PlayStation 3 hacks, the master key would allow users to play pirated software on the console for as long as it exists.
Sony is naturally not too pleased with the latest hack and therefore released a statement, warning users that using the “unauthorised software” will result in them getting banned from the PlayStation Network (PSN) forever.
“Use of such software violates the terms of the System Software License Agreement for the PlayStation 3 System and the Terms of Services and User Agreement for the PlayStation Network/Sony Entertainment Network and its Community Code of Conduct provisions,”
read the statement by Sony. "Violation of the System Software License Agreement for the PlayStation3 system invalidates the consumer's right to access that system. Consumers running unauthorized or pirated software may have their access to the PlayStation
Network and access to Sony Entertainment Network services through PlayStation 3 system terminated permanently.”
Little do people opting to get the unauthorised software installed in their machine and later playing pirated games realise that p****y is a crime and it would only be a matter of time before they would come to know that the risk has a huge price to pay,
which would be far more than losing access to PSN.
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