commander@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoPS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guruthecybersecguru.comexternal-linkmessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up1315arrow-down110
arrow-up1305arrow-down1external-linkPS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guruthecybersecguru.comcommander@lemmy.world to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agomessage-square57fedilink
minus-square4am@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·4 hours agoMaybe I am missing something but I think you answers your own question? ROM is Level 0, it has the burned-in, permanent key. It hashes and verifies the Level 1 bootloader, on disk, signed with the ROM key. Now that the ROM key is known, anyone can sign a PS5 bootloader; and you can pretty much do whatever you want from there. It would seem that all existing PS5s just went up in value.
Maybe I am missing something but I think you answers your own question?
ROM is Level 0, it has the burned-in, permanent key. It hashes and verifies the Level 1 bootloader, on disk, signed with the ROM key.
Now that the ROM key is known, anyone can sign a PS5 bootloader; and you can pretty much do whatever you want from there.
It would seem that all existing PS5s just went up in value.