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. According to the dump tool's docs, that exploit told the chip that an incoming batch of settings data would be empty, and sent more data than it had room for. Before this, in an effort covering some four years, there had been struggles with a slower method of stripping the chip's packaging and reading its contents, which produced only rough dumps.
In a Bluesky post, the dev credited Libby, the collaborator who found an exploit that made the extraction possible. According to the dump tool's docs, that exploit told the chip that an incoming batch of settings data would be empty, and sent more data than it had room for. Before this, in an effort covering some four years, there had been struggles with a slower method of stripping the chip's packaging and reading its contents, which produced only rough dumps.