Comments on: PlayStations 3 used to exploit inet authentication

By: Cheddar

Cheddar — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 14:36:23 +0000

I think,what a lot of people are forgetting is, that Sony is losing money with every ps3 they sell. The whole ps3 market is relying on the sales of games. IF someone hacks the console to play backups say good bye to ps3 it will be canceled by Sony within minutes of it being hacked. A company does not lose like 15 billion dollars (might be a little off last years losses) and then give someone a way to play stuff for free and cost themselves more money.

If you want to see the Sony Ps3 pulled off the shelves within the next 2 years make a iso reader for it tomorrow it would destroy the system hence why Sony has firmware updates once a month.

Its costing them $444.28 or something like that to make a system today this is down nearly 40% i think they said due to less parts then the original ps3's. If i was losing $50 a sale and someone made a way to play backups i would wash my hands and cut my losses.

I'm just really confused as to why people no longer pay for quality they will pay for a trash console if they can dl games for it. Regardless of whether the games are rehashed bs from the last generation.

By: me

me — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 13:20:33 +0000

Well at least none of these PS3 in the cluster had the RROD!!
M$ makes consoles with duck tape and spit to keep production cost low hhehehe

By: BigFatWoody

BigFatWoody — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:20:44 +0000

Several hundred to break the worst of security, so how many would it take to do something impressive?

By: j/king

j/king — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:42:07 +0000

what i want to know is… which security technology and which companies are using them, LOL!

By: Martman

Martman — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:22:52 +0000

Makes you wonder what all these U.S. and European computer security researchers do when they've finished their exploiting, one big game of call of duty ?

By: buh

buh — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:00:20 +0000

so this is why there was a ps3 shortage.

By: Axel

Axel — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 04:39:37 +0000

This is no PR stunt. The PS3's cell processor is really good at such tasks (same operation on huge amounts of data), so it most likely had the best performance per watt/dollar for this task.

But you can't compare these algorithms to what is used in game engines normally, so this is no argument for or against the PS3.

In fact, the GPU performance is normally much more important in gaming, and the PS3's GPU has some major flaws, because its design is rather aged.

By: eazyg

eazyg — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:47:31 +0000

@21 Yes they sold better than the PS3 but out of stock? I can go to any one of the stores in my area that sell game consoles and buy an xbox 360 with no problem at all.

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:28:06 +0000

Sony beat Microsoft Xbox320 in sales you idiot, and they use the PS3 clusters as they are as powerful as million dollar super computers. Know your facts you stupid yanks.

By: blah

blah — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:13:19 +0000

@12
so does the thousands of returns and repairs for the 360 =]

By: DrSeuss

DrSeuss — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:00:42 +0000

Well, at least it will be easy to find hackers trying to use this exploit… just look for someone buying hundreds of PS3s

By: crap

crap — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:27:10 +0000

Huge markting by SONY, they really need it…xbox360 is out of stock in all stores these days

By: rebel

rebel — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:16:49 +0000

I use my 360 mainly for gaming and my ps3 for watching movies streamed from my pc. Btw X360 owned ps3 this year.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:57:39 +0000

Several hundred?
…Sony must appreciate the boost to their Christmas sales figures.

By: fito

fito — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 23:36:24 +0000

This is the reason I always check out rlslog