Post: PS3 'jailbreak code' retweeted by Sony's Kevin Butler
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02-09-2011, 07:18 AM
#1
tak_tizzle
Death Before Dishonour
PS3 'jailbreak code' retweeted by Sony's Kevin Butler, no punchline needed
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Oh, honey. Sony PlayStation's (entirely fictional) Kevin Butler holds many (also fictional) positions within the company, but apparently none of them require him to keep up with (very real) news events. Travis La Marr (aka @exiva) tweeted the now-infamous PS3 METLDR root key towards Butler with the challenge to "Come at me." What's a spokeperson to do but confuse it for a Battleship refrence and retweet the entire code? Obviously someone let him in on the joke, as the tweet's since been removed (original URL can be found as More Coverage below). At least Sony won't have to subpoena for his info here. Geohot, we hope you're laughing.
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Oh, honey. Sony PlayStation's (entirely fictional) Kevin Butler holds many (also fictional) positions within the company, but apparently none of them require him to keep up with (very real) news events. Travis La Marr (aka @exiva) tweeted the now-infamous PS3 METLDR root key towards Butler with the challenge to "Come at me." What's a spokeperson to do but confuse it for a Battleship refrence and retweet the entire code? Obviously someone let him in on the joke, as the tweet's since been removed (original URL can be found as More Coverage below). At least Sony won't have to subpoena for his info here. Geohot, we hope you're laughing.
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02-09-2011, 09:20 PM
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Untouchable_God
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02-09-2011, 09:45 PM
#33
joejn27
Little One
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UPDATE: Many of our valued and more knowledge PSX-SCENE members quickly pointed out that Engadget article and all the other mainstream media sites got this all wrong, it was the HMAC Dongle Master Key that got re-tweet'ed, which was discovered long time ago when the PS3 Service JIG's appeared on the market, and has nothing to do with the later Geohot publishing of the metldr root key on his website!
UPDATE: Many of our valued and more knowledge PSX-SCENE members quickly pointed out that Engadget article and all the other mainstream media sites got this all wrong, it was the HMAC Dongle Master Key that got re-tweet'ed, which was discovered long time ago when the PS3 Service JIG's appeared on the market, and has nothing to do with the later Geohot publishing of the metldr root key on his website!
02-09-2011, 11:56 PM
#36
tak_tizzle
Death Before Dishonour
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