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The original PlayStation 2 security chip has been reverse engineered
More than 25 years after the fat PlayStation 2 launched , a dev known as DiscoStarslayer has managed to pull firmware out of the stubborn SPC970 MechaCon chip responsible for authorizing discs and handling most of the console's security.
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More than 25 years after the fat PlayStation 2 launched , a dev known as DiscoStarslayer has managed to pull firmware out of the stubborn SPC970 MechaCon chip responsible for authorizing discs and handling most of the console's security. In a Bluesky post , the dev credited Libby, the collaborator who found an exploit that made the extraction possible.
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