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[โ€“] pleasejustdie@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This goes back even further, Randall is referencing the ps3 security, that has a constant instead of a random number. That allowed failOverflow to remove one variable and reverse the private key to sign ps3 apps.

[โ€“] Valmond@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

The hitech world was crazy back then, I programmed the DS with some similar hack made by some dude on the internet. Fun times.