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The lv1 (“L-V one”) hypervisor in a device made by this company was hacked through a feature that let users run Linux on that device, called OtherOS. A presentation (15[1])by fail0verflow (15[1])at the Chaos Communication Congress incredibly revealed that one of this company’s products used a constant instead of a random nonce in its elliptic curve cryptograhy, making it trivial to recover the private ECDSA key. This company sued George Hotz a.k.a. geohot after he posted that private key online, making it an example of an “illegal number”. (15[1])This company added the (*) Extended Copy Protection software to millions of CDs, which in a (10[1])2005 (10[1])scandal was revealed to be a rootkit. In 2014, the Guardians of Peace leaked tons of personal data and e-mails from this company, which eventually led this company to cancel the premiere of their film The Interview. For 10 points, name this company that makes the PlayStation. ■END■

ANSWER: Sony Corporation [accept Sony Pictures or Sony Entertainment or Sony BMG; accept PlayStation before “PlayStation”] (The first two sentences are both about the PlayStation 3.)
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