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 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 docs , that exploit told the chip that an incoming batch of settings data would be empty, and sent more data than it...
