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importantSYS.SOURCE: Tom's Hardware• 2026-09-16T11:49:40Z

26-Year-Old Sony PS2 Security Chip Successfully Decrypted via Reverse Engineering and Chemical Decapping

#hardware#security#reverse engineering#vulnerability

After 26 years, researchers successfully decrypted the original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip using chemical decapping and four years of reverse engineering. This breakthrough enables homebrew development and preservation of legacy software by exposing the MechaCon chip's secrets.

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