Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru

Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I think it’s just the amount of love for game consoles is much higher than phones, where people are a bit complacent.

  I do agree it should happen more often.

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  • krooklochurm@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Also there are SO many phones.

    There’s only a few ps5s. I’m not sure if they share the same code that’s been leaked here but probably.

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• Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Consoles have extremely limited variations, less variables to mess with. A ps5 is a ps5, but a Samsung Galaxy 25 isn’t the same as a Samsung Galaxy FE25

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  • Lojcs@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    But if Samsung’s firmware keys or whatever leaked, wouldn’t that apply to all of them? It’s not like they reinvent all their infrastructure for each phone.

    Actually, I take it back. These things do happen in the mobile world, they’re just not released publicly. Celebrite etc just gobble them up

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    • amorpheus@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Their infrastructure likely enables individual keys for every model, it doesn’t need to change.

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  • pory@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ps5 pro, ps5 slim, ps5 digital edition? Nintendo Switch (Erista), Nintendo Switch (Mariko), Nintendo Switch OLED, Nintendo Switch Lite?

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    • Gerudo@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Even those variations have minimal or no overlap on store shelves. It’s still way fewer models to deal with regardless.

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• drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  As someone else pointed out, there’s a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different “Samsung Galaxy …” did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6

  That’s 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there’s a handful of models of “PS5” standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It’s a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii’s security was literally beaten by tweezers

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• Nonononoki@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Good news, a new exploit has been recently found that can unlock the boot loader of several older Sony phones, even the Japanese models which were not unlockable until the discovery!

  xperable - Xperia ABL fastboot Exploit [CVE-2021-1931]

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