Epic News: PS3 Root Key Tweeted By Sony Themselves!

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Originally Posted by engadget Oh, honey. Sony PlayStation's (entirely fictional) Kevin Butler holds many (also fictional) positions within the company, but apparently none of them require him to keep up with (very real) news events. Travis La Marr (aka @exiva) tweeted the now-infamous PS3 METLDR root key towards Butler with the challenge to "Come at me." What's a spokeperson to do but confuse it for a Battleship reference and retweet the entire code? Obviously someone let him in on the joke, as the tweet's since been removed. At least Sony won't have to subpoena for his info here. Geohot, we hope you're laughing!

UPDATE: Many of our valued and more knowledge PSX-SCENE members quickly pointed out that Engadget article and all the other mainstream media sites got this all wrong, it was the HMAC Dongle Master Key that got re-tweet'ed, which was discovered long time ago when the PS3 Service JIG's appeared on the market, and has nothing to do with the later Geohot publishing of the metldr root key on his website!

Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/#%21/thekevinbut...05816176877568

News Source: PS3 'jailbreak code' retweeted by Sony's Kevin Butler (via) Engadget