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I was able to fool the PS3 into downloading game files from my computer instead of from the Playstation Network online.
The reason that was cool is it meant I could download the games onto my computer once, which keeps them local to me, and then when I needed to reinstall the hard drive on my playstation 3 i simply downloaded the games from my computer instead of PSN, which it could do blindingly fast because it was right next to it instead of across the internet.
Unfortunately the PS4 will only download games over SSL (probably to thwart people like me), and I don't have the certificate I'd need to fool it like I could with the PS3.
It's really too bad, because a utility like that would be useful enough to spend money on.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Host the download site on your desktop using IIS or whatever and get a cert free from let's encrypt. Disclaimer: My only experience is with let's encrypt for domain names...not sure how it would handle a local machine name. Good luck! 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Sorry I wasn't more clear, but the PS4 expects a specific certificate from sony before it will complete the download. The end site has to be able to produce that specific cert. That hamstrings me, and I'm sure Sony did it that way on purpose.
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honey the codewitch wrote: and I'm sure Sony did it that way on purpose.
That's The Sony Way(tm), and is no accident. Stop supporting them. I haven't bought a Sony product in decades (whether a console, TV, any sort of player, or even anything produced by Sony Pictures or whatever music label(s) they own).
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I feel that way about Apple, and I haven't bought an Apple product - they screwed my parents over in 1986.
I also feel the same way about most of sony, but I respect their playstation group - or at least I did - PS3 was one of the best consoles/media-centers you could buy. It still is a great system. I'm kind of disappointed with the PS4.
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honey the codewitch wrote: but I respect their playstation group
Was it the PS2 that was initially capable of booting some customized version of Linux...then they quietly killed the feature (despite selling a kit for it) through some update...
Then the PlayStation Network a few years ago was down for over a month while they figured out how to secure their customers' data...
Then before that they had audio CDs that installed rootkits...
I've witnessed firsthand Sony taking away access to the 3D demo library from my folks' 3D TV less than 2 years after they bought it.
I've totally lost respect for Sony as a company, and there's nothing they could offer me to get back on their bandwagon.
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That's fair enough. To each their own. FWIW I'm probably switching over to Xbox for my next gen console anyway.
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I only have an Xbox One S because it was so heavily discounted on Black Friday a few years ago - to this day I still can't find it at the price I paid back then.
When I purchased it, the standalone UHD Blu-ray players were still going for a few hundred bucks, so I view it as having purchased a UHD player that incidentally came with a gaming console.
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Lets encrypt has free certs. 
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I wasn't very clear, sorry. The issue is the PS4 (the client) expects a specific cert or it won't download.
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Out of curiosity, why not keep downloaded games on an external drive?
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Because the PS4 will not install them that way. They can ONLY be installed via disc or via the "playstation network" download facility.
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Nah, not from an external disc, on an external disc.
I forget which one, but one of the recent updates brought with it the ability to install games onto USB storage. You dedicate the drive, format it and you're off and racing/figting/shooting whatever!
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Really? That's news to me.
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Gosh, I'm really behind the times!
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Yeah well. I thought it was an update or two ago... Huh!? Whaaaaat.
2017!!! 
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You can install them to the external, right? I don't know for sure how it all works, because I don't own a PS4, but this link suggests you can move installations between external/internal drive.
PlayStation Support[^]
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That might be a more recent feature. I'll check it out. I don't want to install on an external drive because I *think* PS4 only does USB2 so I'd be concerned about speed issues. Maybe it's not an issue though, I don't know.
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Hey,
The real security issue here is that some of the 'cross-play' games that are implemented with HTML5/javascript do not use certificate pinning which potentially allows modification of game assets.
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Have not seen this on here before, even though it has over 26 million views. If you haven't seen it, enjoy: Microsoft Windows™ Waltz
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Awesome! 
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David O'Neil wrote: 26 million views
Not quite 23.5M as I'm writing this, so you're either a time traveler or some people somehow have managed to unsee it.
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When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
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