Playstation = Crackstation

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Playstation = Crackstation
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Neo Metallix	Nov 30 2007, 11:53 AM Post #1
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	Let's add another function onto the list of things the PS3 can do -- this one, however, isn't something we'd really like advertised. It's almost scary. Security-assessment.com senior security consultant Nick Breese has been using a PS3 to hack passwords and such. Apparently using a PS3 drastically increases the processing capability to do so, using the most basic of hacking tools -- brute force. By brute force we mean it just tries every combination of numbers and letters incredibly fast. The old upper limit of vector computing (Pentium) using common ciphers and hash functions was around 10-15 million cycles per second, but with the PS3, this has moved to around 1.4 billion cycles per second. That's really about all we're going to dive into. If you want to read about the complex workings of the "Crackstation" project, feel free, but don't go trying this stuff at home!
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Neo Metallix	Nov 30 2007, 11:54 AM Post #2
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140064-c...es/article.html
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Straw Hat	Nov 30 2007, 12:24 PM Post #3
Mushroom Hill Act 1 Posts: 497 Group: C-Rank Soldier Member #137 Joined: July 28, 2006	Whoah... Who would have guessed that the PS3 was also a awesome hacking tool... Nobody's safe!



Neo Metallix	Nov 30 2007, 12:26 PM Post #4
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	I would have. I already knew the CPU was like 100 times faster than a Pentium 4.
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~~Venoma3d~~	Nov 30 2007, 02:14 PM Post #5
Lava Reef Act 2 Posts: 4,447 Group: Game Over :( Member #2,895 Joined: October 13, 2007	wooooow If that's power of the PS3 I don't want to see PS5 ! :duh:



Deleted User	Nov 30 2007, 03:00 PM Post #6
Deleted User	And I thought Playstation 2 was bad...
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Nine Tailed-Ramen Fox	Nov 30 2007, 03:06 PM Post #7
Don't defy me or I will beat you senseless with a sack of doorknobs! Posts: 1,573 Group: S Rank Hero Member #1,047 Joined: May 14, 2007	this is terrible.......
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Supersonic1994	Nov 30 2007, 03:15 PM Post #8
Mushroom Hill Act 2 Posts: 608 Group: S Rank Knight Member #2,920 Joined: October 14, 2007	This is bad. Bad SONY, making the PS3 any easy hacking device homing attacks SONY. XDD XDD
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Nine Tailed-Ramen Fox	Nov 30 2007, 03:20 PM Post #9
Don't defy me or I will beat you senseless with a sack of doorknobs! Posts: 1,573 Group: S Rank Hero Member #1,047 Joined: May 14, 2007	I got a better idea,nuke sony HQ!
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Neo Metallix	Nov 30 2007, 03:23 PM Post #10
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	supersonic1994 Nov 30 2007, 03:15 PM This is bad. Bad SONY, making the PS3 any easy hacking device homing attacks SONY. XDD XDD Well one could say Microsoft and Apple do that with PCs/Macs.... Although they don't have the processing power that the PS3 CPU has. Only bad people use it for hacking, good people use it for making complex games.
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Gale	Dec 1 2007, 05:08 AM Post #11
<3 Posts: 1,779 Group: S Rank Hero Member #3,090 Joined: October 23, 2007 Gender: Female	It'd be one expensive brute forcer. It doesn't seem worth it, just to hack.



Neo Metallix	Dec 1 2007, 10:13 AM Post #12
~Doomsday Overlord~ Posts: 15,568 Group: =SB= Emperor Member #1 Joined: April 8, 2006 Gender: Male Country: United States of America Playstation Network ID: Doc_Of_D Game Currently Playing: Tales of Xillia	Gale Dec 1 2007, 05:08 AM It'd be one expensive brute forcer. It doesn't seem worth it, just to hack. It's cheaper than any computer..... Even when it was $599.
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Boota	Dec 1 2007, 11:55 AM Post #13
STEP BACK, ANTI-SPIRAL! Posts: 2,348 Group: S Rank Hero Member #866 Joined: April 11, 2007	ZOMG people stop saying you should nuke Sony HQ! then no more Little Big Planet, no more Ratchet and Clank, no more Resistance... NO MORE SONY!!! that's bad!!!! just because n00b hackers can't suck it up and use a Computer dosen't mean it's bad! the computing power is one thing Sony pushed for. No matter HOW or WHAT you put in it, it will ALWAYS be used for bad stuff. And anyway... for saying that stuff i should bring down the wrath of 1up forums down on you :o
	The Pimp


ExTengoku	Dec 1 2007, 05:26 PM Post #14
Skype ID: mipnxx Posts: 1,935 Group: S Rank Hero Member #2,154 Joined: August 27, 2007	Yep, the world is full of n00by theives. Oh, what society has done to the weak minded children.



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