Series of breakthroughs give hackers full access to PS3 innards; mass piracy likely.
George “GeoHot” Hotz, the hacker who was part of the team responsible for the iPhone jailbreak, has discovered and released online the PlayStation 3 root key.
The root key has the final say on which code can and cannot be run on a PS3, meaning the system is now completely open to homebrew developers and, more worryingly, piracy.