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Silver-Tiger on 18 February 2011
Snesboy said:

And all because Sony took linux support away.


kinda ironic, isn't it? Linux was no security problem, this of course is.



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Hephaestos on 18 February 2011
Mr Khan said:

Horrifying if true. If the hackers gain the capability to deny others service, that definitely treads into legal ground far quicker than the mystier legal arguments of mere piracy enabling and game-hacking


they are just feeding the system data, it's sony who does the banning.



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alekth on 18 February 2011

Even a simple Windows application which goes through ALL ID’s may be possible. 24 hours and any console worldwide would be banned.

This is the best bit of it! Ignoring all the zeroes on the sides from the screenshot, that's a 24 symbols long code in hex. That makes 7.92281625*10^28 possible combinations. Now let's say people work together and get 10,000 ID checked with PSN per second (not that the PSN is likely to be able to handle that at all). It would take about 2.5*10^17 years. Now, the age of the universe is estimated at about 1.4*10^10 years, and that puts this magical simple windows application in progress for about 18mil universe timespans, but then at last we'll finally have every PS3 out there banned!

So OK, the definition of may in this article might be a bit fuzzy. The definition of can now in the title even more so.

edit: actually calculated 16^24 isntead of 24^16, so that puts it at only about 3 universe timespans. Everybody start panicking.



Mr Khan on 18 February 2011
Hephaestos said:
Mr Khan said:

Horrifying if true. If the hackers gain the capability to deny others service, that definitely treads into legal ground far quicker than the mystier legal arguments of mere piracy enabling and game-hacking


they are just feeding the system data, it's sony who does the banning.

Feeding the system data with deliberate intent to deprive someone else of service because they were denied a service due to their determination to violate the Terms of Service

Be clear that i've been vehemently opposed to certain steps of Sony's in this process, but here it's pretty cut-and-dry



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IllegalPaladin on 18 February 2011
alekth said:

Even a simple Windows application which goes through ALL ID’s may be possible. 24 hours and any console worldwide would be banned.

This is the best bit of it! Ignoring all the zeroes on the sides from the screenshot, that's a 24 symbols long code in hex. That makes 7.92281625*10^28 possible combinations. Now let's say people work together and get 10,000 ID checked with PSN per second (not that the PSN is likely to be able to handle that at all). It would take about 2.5*10^17 years. Now, the age of the universe is estimated at about 1.4*10^10 years, and that puts this magical simple windows application in progress for about 18mil universe timespans, but then at last we'll finally have every PS3 out there banned!

So OK, the definition of may in this article might be a bit fuzzy. The definition of can now in the title even more so.

edit: actually calculated 16^24 isntead of 24^16, so that puts it at only about 3 universe timespans. Everybody start panicking.

I'm sure everybody knows that the PS3 is on a 30^10 year lifespan. The hell are you talking about?

:P



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alekth on 18 February 2011
IllegalPaladin said:
alekth said:

Even a simple Windows application which goes through ALL ID’s may be possible. 24 hours and any console worldwide would be banned.

This is the best bit of it! Ignoring all the zeroes on the sides from the screenshot, that's a 24 symbols long code in hex. That makes 7.92281625*10^28 possible combinations. Now let's say people work together and get 10,000 ID checked with PSN per second (not that the PSN is likely to be able to handle that at all). It would take about 2.5*10^17 years. Now, the age of the universe is estimated at about 1.4*10^10 years, and that puts this magical simple windows application in progress for about 18mil universe timespans, but then at last we'll finally have every PS3 out there banned!

So OK, the definition of may in this article might be a bit fuzzy. The definition of can now in the title even more so.

edit: actually calculated 16^24 isntead of 24^16, so that puts it at only about 3 universe timespans. Everybody start panicking.

I'm sure everybody knows that the PS3 is on a 30^10 year lifespan. The hell are you talking about?

:P

I wasn't quite sure, thought that might have been the FF Versus development time.



IllegalPaladin on 18 February 2011
alekth said:
IllegalPaladin said:
alekth said:

Even a simple Windows application which goes through ALL ID’s may be possible. 24 hours and any console worldwide would be banned.

This is the best bit of it! Ignoring all the zeroes on the sides from the screenshot, that's a 24 symbols long code in hex. That makes 7.92281625*10^28 possible combinations. Now let's say people work together and get 10,000 ID checked with PSN per second (not that the PSN is likely to be able to handle that at all). It would take about 2.5*10^17 years. Now, the age of the universe is estimated at about 1.4*10^10 years, and that puts this magical simple windows application in progress for about 18mil universe timespans, but then at last we'll finally have every PS3 out there banned!

So OK, the definition of may in this article might be a bit fuzzy. The definition of can now in the title even more so.

edit: actually calculated 16^24 isntead of 24^16, so that puts it at only about 3 universe timespans. Everybody start panicking.

I'm sure everybody knows that the PS3 is on a 30^10 year lifespan. The hell are you talking about?

:P

I wasn't quite sure, thought that might have been the FF Versus development time.

Shoot, you never know.



Ajescent on 18 February 2011
Snesboy said:

And all because Sony took linux support away.

Why does everyone forget it was Geohot who drew first blood?



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Rainbow Yoshi on 18 February 2011
darthdevidem01 said:


Luckily I remembered that was the title of the most recent Family Guy spoof of Star Wars.



IMU1808 on 18 February 2011
Snesboy said:

And all because Sony took linux support away.

Incorrect.