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The timestamp read: 12/25/2012, 3:14 AM.
His heart hammered. Four blocks. That was like finding four grains of sand on a beach and being asked to rebuild the castle. But ps3cfwtools had a flag for that. --frankenstein .
“Console root keys,” he whispered, scrolling through the readme. ps3cfwtools didn't brute force. It reconstructed . If you had fragments of a console’s unique ID—a stray key from a dead CMOS battery, a partial dump from a corrupted flash—the tools could stitch them back together like digital Frankenstein.
Don't tell Sony. ;-)
./ps3cfwtools extract_eid_root /dev/sdb
He ran it.
He copied it to a USB stick, labeled it with Ernie’s order number, and shut down the VM. As the terminal vanished, he saw one last message from ps3cfwtools :