New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese claims to have used the year-old gaming console to crack passwords at speeds 100 times greater than Intel hardware is capable of.
Breese, a security consultant with Security-Assessment.com, presented his findings to the Kiwicon hacker conference in Wellington, New Zealand.
"Suddenly we have a massive increase in terms of . . . cryptography cracking," he told Next. "Eight-character 'strong' passwords can be broken in a couple of days whereas before it would take weeks."
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to ruling the world with robots powered by the PS3's amazing proccessing power. Good luck everyone!
If only devs could make good use of Cell's true power in graphics and processing power. We may never see it but if we do, it will be one hell of a stunner.
Yup, pretty much. Sent engineers back to school.
Maybe plop a couple of cells into a vaio PC, with 4 gigs of XDDR, 8800's in SLI...oh sweet mother of pearl.
A man can dream cant he?
yep, sounds about right. playstation piracy is so rampant its not funny...........
hope they do something about that before they try anything with pcs, or they will get eaten for dinner by the likes of microsoft.....
no contest. :-D