June 10, 2005
Sony PSP Hacking to Play Pirated Games is TOUGH
A tech geek explains that trying to hack the Sony PSP to play pirated games is going to be a lot tougher than people think. Hackers will have to break industrial strength RSA encryption to get the code to run off the memory stick."Even if you put the UMD game on the memory stick," Gilbert added, "that binary is not only encrypted, but also programmed to load from the UMD. So obviously, it's not going to boot from the memory stick." Copying the game itself to another UMD disc--which would require a burner for a proprietary, smaller disc medium not generally available through retail channels--would be an even larger hurdle for a game dumper to clear.
