Reply to post: Re: Sticking it to the Man is one thing

Sony hackers dump more hunks of stolen data, promise another 'Christmas gift'

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Re: Sticking it to the Man is one thing

"Already been done."

Not quite. These are private SSL and web-related keys. I'm talking more like hardware signing keys, the kinds of things that lock in their hardware. If those leaked out, it would be double whammy for them since it would provide the means not only to jailbreak but also potentially to install signed malware on them: possibly even without user intervention (or at least while making it look like a legitimate update).

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