Sony is threatening to take legal action against anyone who distributes or posts the key used to hack PS3s. To further their point that they aren't messing around Sony has also gone after YouTube and are seeking "All information and documents related to the use of your service(s) to host the content associated with and/or comprising the video titled "Jail broken PS3 3.55 with Homebrew", posted by user "geohot" and located at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U kLSXsCKDkg." (The video is no longer on YouTube.) Sony is now hoping a federal judge will demand Google to release the names, addresses, IP address logs and any other information of anyone who has commented or even simply seen the video.
This latest batch of paperwork filed by Sony comes as they are gearing up to take 21-year-old hacker George Hotz to court. Hotz, better known as GeoHot, posted a How-To video for unlocking the PS3 using a key. The key was discovered by a hacker collective known as fail0verflow.  The code enables players to bypass Sony's security settings enabling the use of custom firmware and playing pirated games.
Sony is requesting this information so they can send "a [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] notice to remove the material and, if necessary, seek appropriate relief from this court.” There's no word yet if Sony plans to prosecute their own VP Kevin Butler after he unknowingly retweeted the key to every one of his 70,000+  followers. The tweet has since been deleted.
Sony is also seeking legal action against the hacker group fail0verflow but is having trouble finding the members' identities and whereabouts. In hopes of finding these members Sony is making a similar request to Twitter; demanding the personal information of suspected accounts.
We've been covering this story since it broke last month, along with following Sony's actions. Do you think their actions are fair? Or is demanding Google give up personal information too much

Source:http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/710327/Sony-Threatens-To-Take-Legal-Action-Against-Those-Who-Distribute-PS3-Hack-Asks-For-Names-And-IPs-From-Google-Twitter

Manufacturer breaks cover and comments on recent security breaches; network updates planned.

Sony has at last broken silence on recent developments which have seen its PlayStation 3's security measures completely defeated.

The firm has remained resolutely tight-lipped since news broke that a hacking group named fail0verflow had gained full control over the system, after reverse engineering the code used to sign authorised software as genuine.

Shortly afterwards iPhone hacker George “GeoHot” Hotz published the console’s “root key” online, enabling homebrew developers to create and sign their own apps. Blu-Ray and PSP root keys have also since been found buried within the PS3 and released online.

“We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it,” Sony told us in a brief statement. “We will fix the issues through network updates, but because this is a security issue, we are not able to provide you with any more details.”

Sony’s response is at odds with comments given to the BBC yesterday by fail0verflow member pytey, who said: “The complete console is compromised – there is no way back.

“The only way to fix this is to issue new hardware. Sony will have to accept this.”

Both fail0verflow and GeoHot are staunchly anti-piracy, and have not released any tools that directly enable the playing of copied games, but it is widely expected that piracy will soon be rife on what was, until very recently, considered to be the most secure console ever released.

int getradomnumber()
{
        return 4;
}

Clarification #4: the random number isn't 4, it's more like 007eabbb79360e14df1457a4194b82f71a0dc39280 (example). But it's still constant.

The 27th annual Chaos Communication Conference already hacked encrypted GSM calls with a $15 cellphone, but there was a second surprise in store this morn -- the souls who unlocked the Nintendo Wii's homebrew potential (and defended it time and again) claim to have broken into the PlayStation 3 as well. Last we left the black monolith, Sony had won a round, forcing the community to downgrade their firmware for any hope at hacking into the console. Well, the newly formed fail0verflow hacking squad says that won't be a problem any longer, because they've found a way to get the PS3 to reveal its own private cryptography key -- the magic password that could let the community sign its very own code.

So far, the team hasn't provided any proof that the deed's been done, but they have provided quite an extensive explanation of how they managed the feat: apparently, Sony didn't bother generating any random numbers to secure the blasted thing. (We don't really know how it works, but we have it on good authority that dead cryptography professors are rapidly spinning in their graves.) The group intends to generate a proof-of-concept video tomorrow, and release the tools sometime next month, which they claim should eventually enable the installation of Linux on every PS3 ever sold. Catch the whole presentation after the break in video form, or skip to 33:00 for the good stuff.

LibFreenect - Open Source PC Drivers for Kinect

Marcan released the first Open Source Drivers for Kinect:

Horribly hacky first take at a Kinect Camera driver. Does RGB and Depth.

main.c implements a simple OpenGL visualization. Hopefully it should be mostly self-explanatory... You pretty much just open the USB device, call cams_init(dev, depthimg, rgbimg), and your depthimg and rgbimg callbacks getcalled as libusb processes events.

Download: http://git.marcansoft.com/?p=libfreenect.git

After a great response from the community we have started a fund to open source our research related to the Microsoft’s new Xbox Kinect device. You can learn more on the project overview page or join the discussion. We started a $10,000 fund to complete driver specifications and software for the Xbox Kinect Audio, Color/Depth Cameras and Motor/Accelerometer.

We want to help the community and accelerate Kinect support on Linux/Mac/Windows as well as provide clear documentation. We see huge potential of the Kinect’s influence on robotics and computer vision and upon completion we will release our code with an open source license (Considering BSD/LGPL/MIT). We hope the fund completes quickly and if not we still have plans on releasing a Free Windows Driver and SDK just like we have done in the past with the PS3 Eye devices.

According to this Adafruit blog article there is already $3000 available and we will work with them and see if we can make something happen. We are not looking to make money but believe a properly funded project will bring us great results and help us all faster access the full capabilities of the sensors as well as foster future developments such as 3D mapping/tracking.

Stay tuned to our project page for updates...

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-AlexP

this video looks fake because the camera man is moving towards kinect while kinect sees standing man that is not moving.

Weird, I thought once it throws E74 it will throw it until you fix it, regardless of what you do.

Where is the information on the new rebooter project? It would be nice to know who's actually attempting to make a new one.