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Group claims that the only reason the PS3 was “hack proof” was that until Sony removed the Other OS feature, no one was actually trying. A hacker group calling itself “Fail0verflow” – the same people responsible for the Wii homebrew channel – has given a talk at the 27th Chaos Communcation Congress in Berlin, Germany, giving a detailed look security measures that Sony implemented for the PS3, and how they were circumvented. In their 45 minute presentation, the group made the case that the removal of the Other OS function had played a pretty big role in the PS3 getting […]http://cdn.themis-media.com/media/global/images/library/deriv/38/38361.jpg