All Posts Tagged With: "hacking"

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Sony PlayStation 3: Hacker’s Best Friend

You can use the powerful processors in PS3 to cracking passwords, other than gaming, claims a New Zealand-based security researcher Nick Breese.
Breese who has been working on the project ‘Crackstation‘, for the past six months, used the Sony PlayStation 3 gaming console for his break-through research.
Breese claims to have used PS3 console to crack passwords [...]

 29Nov2007 | Sanketh | 8 comments | Continued
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What’s Eating Your Computer’s Resources? Don’t Blame MS Quite Yet

Everyone is always looking for ways to make their computer faster. Whether it’s linux, OSX or the ubiquitous Windows, no matter how many times you upgrade, how much more RAM you add, whatever, computing, for all its increases in speed in the past years, is still not fast enough.
It’s all crap. There are bigger [...]

 26Sep2007 | Kline | 17 comments | Continued
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Can The AACS Claim To Own A Number?

Amidst all the fuss and the attempts by the AACS trying to stop websites publishing a certain 128-bit number that allowed HD-DVD and Blu-ray discs to be copied, I hadn’t realised how ludicrious it was for the AACS to lay claim to a number. It’s like me saying that I own the rights to [...]

 12May2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued