Team Fail0verflow heeft een interview met de BBC gehad en daar werd uitgebreid gesproken over de PlayStation 3 hack die nu de console wagenwijd heeft open gezet. Want volgens de hacker is het zo erg dat Sony zijn hardware en encryptie zal moeten aanpassen om dit ongedaan te maken. De reden waarom Team Fail0verflow hun pijlen op de PlayStation 3 heeft gemikt was omdat het niet meer mogelijk was om Linux te instaleren en niet om gedownloade games te spelen. De hele hackers groep benadrukt dan ook dat ze tegen warez zijn, maar geloven in het openen van hun hardware voor andere doeleinde dan waar het voor gemaakt is.

But Sony's removal of OtherOS prompted other hackers to begin to look at the system more closely.

"It became a valid target," pytey told BBC News. "That was the motivation for us to hack it."

He said the team had spent "months" trying to find their way into the system.

In the end, the flaw that allowed them to crack the system was a basic cryptographic error that allowed them to compute the private key, held by Sony, he said.

"Sony uses a private key, usually stored in a vault at the company's HQ, to mark firmware as valid and unmodified, and the PS3 only needs a public key to verify that the signature came from Sony.

"Applied correctly, it would take billions of years to derive the private key from the public key, or to make a signature without knowing the private key, even when you have all the computational power in the world at your disposal."

However, according to pytey, it may not be so easy to fix the problem this time.

"The only way to fix this is to issue new hardware," he said. "Sony will have to accept this."

He said that he thought his group was on safe legal ground with its work.

"I haven't stolen anything," he said. "It's my own hardware, I can run whatever I like on it.