Haha. I knew linux would lead to this. Also interesting note. It is now believed the wii dumps are fake.
Dunno, with the huges loss on every PS3 sold I doubt sony will call this a victory, specially if they cant afford another wave of intense piracy like they did in the past... I wonder if you need a license from sony to sell an OS for the PS3... Vista on PS3 anyone?:lol: PS: resistance is 17 gigs? holy molly! and to think that only the FMVs weight more than the game itself...
If you can stream games from the HDD, why bother burning them? hell, even over TCP/IP thru the RJ45 port, streaming at 100Mbit from your computer beats BD's drive speed If linux is in there, there's hope for piracy and homebrew. I *think* (no source to confirm) that the Wii also runs some sort of linux kernel. Nevertheless, the fully implimented linux on Ps3 leaves a large hole in its security for talented people.
check this out. http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1637857096 Hack to win a PS3 Keen to get your hand on the eagerly anticipated PlayStation 3? Japanese Web host Shimpinomori is promising to give away a modified version of the powerful console to the first person who is able to hack it. The challenge was launched less than two days ago by Shimpinomori founder, Augustin Vidovic, to test the security of the PlayStation 3 Open Platform and the viability of using it as a heavy-duty server platform. "The PS3 is a brand-new kind of system, with the flabbergasting Cell processor, which the very architecture protects from most of the buffer overflow causes," Vidovic said. "It should be much harder to crack [than standard servers]." Hackers have been invited to attack a Shimpinomori Web site, featuring an image of the PS3 box in the hands of a toddler. The first to replace the image will win the PS3 that the site is currently hosted on. Mere hours after the challenge was launched, Vidovic's Web site was already attracting the attention of the blogging and hacker communities. To date, the site has received in excess of 1500 diggs on social bookmarking site Digg, and so far, said Vidovic, it's looking good. "The Digg Effect [is] in full force, [and] the PS3 is at 95.5 per cent idle most of the time," he said. "Imagine that: the PS3 may be a pricey game console, but if it proves to be a first class server, it is really cheap!" Vidovic has given hackers until mid-January to win the PS3, after which the offer will expire. So far, he said, there have been many people attempting dictionary attacks, brute force attacks against the SSH server daemon, and attacks via standard Nessus, kitco and other portscanners. The PS3 has already been launched in the US and Japan, but with limited availability. It debuts in Australia in March 2007
"So, what do you think we should use as root password?" "Well, my instincts tell me fg908x78b6e76g9xcd9e0ybdq8j, but I think I'm going to go with cat."
I've heard somewhere that they'e been "nuked" due to them being fake. No big surprise, especially since I hadn't seen any of them in my usual places.
For this challenge to work, the promoters would have to leave a PS3 on 24/7 for months. Something tells me this would be a very bad idea - especially if the hacked unit is the prize
Not to promote piracy here but it seems Zelda TP jpn Gcn iso is floating on the net. I though this game was not due out yet in japan till a bit later for gamecube (usa gets it dec 11, got mine preordered). Of course not but ultimately what helps get a system pirated is iso files. Without them people would not know if they are on the right track or not. Iso will almost always come out before hack devices / modchips do.
I was just saying that if people think that the only thing protecting the PS3 was the fact that not many have bluray reader/writer on their computers, good luck to those people
