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by martyhu 16y ago
http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/29/hackers-obtain-ps3-private-cryptography-key-due-to-epic-programm/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/29/hackers-obtain-ps3-privat...
"Sony didn't bother generating any random numbers to secure the blasted thing."
Not to bash Sony, but I think the interesting point here is that creating secure systems is actually a really hard problem. Creating usable secure systems is an even harder problem.
See Schneier: http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_usa.html http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/08/security_vs_us...
- wvenable 16y agoActually, I think the interesting point is all the theory and practice around secure systems is pretty sound but one very simple human error can cause it all to tumble down. I imagine just have one or two more eyes on the problem would have caught this and then the PS3 would have remained secure.