Yes, there is. The reason it was possible to crack the root key is that Sony were reusing nonces. If they do their cryptography correctly with the new key the same technique won’t work.
Personally I think this hack is doing much more harm than good.
Yes, it enables some homebrew dicking around but that homebrew stuff will probably break every other firmware update anyway, so what’s the point?
It also enables malicious software (think about it, most PS3’s contain credit card info!), it enables piracy, it enables cheating… Basically most PS3 owners have lost some security, and all counter measures done by Sony are of course paid for by the customers in the end.
Those hackers might be smart, but I can’t help thinking that it was mostly vanity that made them release those hacks to the public, and that it’s ultimately quite an irresponsible thing to do.
And they’re reasoning (“I have the right to code for the hardware I own!”) really is kind of pointless considering the big picture here.
Just my 2 cts…
In another news, Sony wins restraining order against the hackers:
http://www.examiner.com/console-gaming-in-national/sony-wins-temporary-restraining-order-against-geohot-and-fail0verflow-over-ps
Looks like Sony is going to use serial number keys, like you get with PC software, registered centrally. Apparently each game can be registered up to 5 times. I imagine this is going to dampen the secondhand games market. The main problem with this approach is that it relies on the key generation algorithm being obscure. Otherwise pirates can generate their own unique keys. This has happened with some windows software.
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or a human spammer
no you’re wrong. i’m not going to buy some $300 piece of hardware JUST to play games. it would be a very sore point that this thing is more powerful than a same-price PC and i can’t code for it without some $1000 dev kit. sony should at least do the decent thing and a PC with PS3 hardware for the same price, or allow OtherOs. screw piracy concerns. a disk duplicator can make an exact binary copy anyways. then, this serial key thing would make it impossible to play if you have slow internet or no internet at all.
Sony would get a HUGE jump in PS3 sales, if it supported java, how many indie programmers would invest in a PS3.
The programmers who dev quality games in java wouldnt have the time to play a PS3 otherwise.
Like how apple suckered alot of Java developers over (from PC) because it was going to invest its own resources into supporting it, then when they reached peak conversion of PC users to Mac, for the sake of Java Dev, ditched it. =D I love apple.
on the indie side Sony are have fallen pretty far back when compared to Microsofts XNA/C# platform. If Sony want to compete in this area Java would be the best platform for them to build their tools on.
Secondly MS are also starting to push their stuff on WP7 mobile and already have plans to connect their xbox stuff to it. This could be a potential threat to Sony but the good news is that Sony have already shown interest in using the Android platform to try compete , so again there’s a Java connection here.
The problem with Android is… it’s not Java. Hence lawsuits. It also potentially makes Sony and Oracle unfriendly with each other.
Cas 
About the only way I would buy a PS3 would be if they added java support but the likely hood of that is infinitesimally small.
Is BD-J enough for your needs?
+1
and that’s too bad…