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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 19 2007, 08:19 PM (582 Views) | |
| ZeroTM | Mar 19 2007, 08:19 PM Post #1 |
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There was only one winner of an international challenge that offered a PlayStation 3 to any hacker able to attack it: Sony. Over the two-month-long competition, the PlayStation 3 was able to withstand numerous attempts by hackers worldwide, proving to the competition organiser its potential use as a server. The challenge was first issued in November 2007 by Japanese Web host Shimpinomori to test the security of the PlayStation 3 Open Platform and the viability of using it as a heavy-duty server platform. Results came as a pleasant surprise to Shimpinomori founder, Augustin Vidovic. "I was half expecting that someone would find a crack in the Linux setup, and it did not happen," he said. "Nobody could hack into the PS3." And it wasn't for lack of trying. Standard hack attempts have left Vidovic with more than one gigabyte of logs full of what he calls 'unimaginative' attempts on the HTTP. Other hackers attempted brute force attacks on the SSH port. According to Vidovic, the most notable hack attempt exploited a limitation in the number of simultaneous SSH connections that could be supported on the PS3, in order to prevent other challenge participants to connect to the SSH for a few hours. The challenge was called to a halt on 2 January 2007 with the PS3 emerging unscathed. Vidovic said this proved the PS3's abilities to run continuously for extended periods of time without any heat problems, and can be trusted to be a good, reliable and secure server. Vidovic now owns three PS3 machines, one of which will be used as a server, the second as an experiment development platform for the Cell processor, and the third as a game console. He is currently also researching applications and methods to set up a PS3 as a server. Source: http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/index.php/id;1319427689 |
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| Shipau | Mar 19 2007, 08:26 PM Post #2 |
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ok, I guess thats a good thing but whos going to 'hack' into your PS3? :huh: I don't see any real gain from this 'challange' other than the last paragraph and to promote their system :rolleyes: :) (not that that's a bad thing =P) |
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| ZeroTM | Mar 19 2007, 10:48 PM Post #3 |
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You didn't really get it fully did you? This proves the PS3 is also a stable, secure, and powerful server. It could host the Angels of Fire server. |
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| Mydin | Mar 20 2007, 06:35 AM Post #4 |
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There is away round it. There always is. -_- no matter what a silly competition says. |
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| IrishDragon | Mar 20 2007, 09:58 AM Post #5 |
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They are talking about hacking the servers operating system and kernel. If you load JKA on there, there are loop holes in the game that could be exposed and the game itself could be hacked. The server (hardware and operating system) cannot be maliciously hacked. |
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