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- nonokiaboy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+137Yay i win! I changed the pic to a baby with a ps3
:) - AllenS, on 10/12/2007, -6/+114there were ads on that page?
(Adblock, baby!) - crazaalex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+80That how to become a hacker digg should come in handy in these times...
- Stereophonics, on 10/12/2007, -2/+72Smart way to advertise his hosting company :)
- Keloran, on 10/12/2007, -5/+73Hmm i replaced the image, shame i used a JS script todo it, so it proberlly doesnt count, hehe
- PrometheuZ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+58So this is where all the Digg 'know it all's' can walk tha talk instead of just talkin'.
- ericmoritz, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60You're telling me that a PS3 is surviving the digg-effect? That's crazy... I'm surprised it has enough memory to handle all these requests....
- vido, on 10/12/2007, -5/+58What do you mean by "shady" ? My challenge is for real.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57Nope, this is still Digg. Everybody can still just talk the talk. Example: Honestly, I haven't even done anything. I read the site, closed it, and was finished with it, BUT I can always pretend that I have.
"Oh man, this is going to be hard. It appears that his public files are pretty well secured on his PS3. He probably is hosting off of a virtual machine. I'd say that he also probably has a hardware firewall or even two with this thing. This is going to be really hard for me to hack. I've almost gotten through the first hardware firewall. I think it'll be easier from here. Yeah, it seems that this firewall was part of a router, which I now have access to, now, from this I should be able to access the root drives on his other computers on the network which should make it much easier to break through to the PS3. I can't believe none of you noobs thought of that yet. " - answr42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+50Its like stealing a PS3 from a baby!
- l3m0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+46publicfile httpd is quite secure, good luck all
- darkzealot89, on 10/12/2007, -3/+43The sprocket is corrupted, no way of getting in now...
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40Smart people own it and secure it to prevent others from owning it =)
- kubudubudubuntu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+41"No DOS" , weather he likes it or not, its on digg so his little home tube wont handle it for long =)
- afx1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+41Not as much as your typing is.
- randal2k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+37someone read the same viral advertising blog i did. this is ingenious. Makes money from adds, shows off his web hosting, and shows that he is more then the average tech as he has already hacked his PS3.. er yours... Still, a wonderful idea and good advert, i apluad this guy for his pure ingenuity's. great work!!
- eliteeggnog, on 10/12/2007, -8/+44Ha, you go man!
You people are so gullible. That IS the default image. - elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -3/+39Yeah, that is the point. That's what you do if you want the prize.
- vido, on 10/12/2007, -0/+35Hey, Randal2k, you forgot another good reason : the PS3 is a _play_ station, and, well, I play with it ;-)
Thanks for trying, but the PS3 is still 95.5% idle, there is therefore some margin left, even with the Digg Effect, apparently. If it holds that easily for the next month, I will probably consider acquiring more PS3s to build servers. Darn good piece of equipment, and cheap compared to a regular rack-mounted server ! - chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -6/+41and i'm sure all the money made from those ads is "for real" as well.
- sammysnake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35Doing a port scan is not illegal in any way.
- ifonly, on 10/12/2007, -3/+36I think I'm ready for this, I have done a lot of certified hacking challenges *cough* http://www.arcadex.org/games/Hacker
- gratuit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33was anyone else surprised to see actual use of the word homologated?
- Landonr, on 06/30/2008, -3/+28Zing!
- Chrysalid, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Ladies and gentlemen, start your nmaps.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22@kubudubudubuntu
It's running Fedore Core 5 PPC, not Yellow Dog. - mikeymacgyver, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25HACK THE GIBSON!
- argh44z, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22This guy is the owner of the host company. The page says to email the hosting company's contact email in event of successful hacking. I'm guessing they're the same person.
- vido, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Don't worry, I am the said owner, and I gave you in the challenge presentation page the authorization to attack the PS3 itself and only that piece of equipment.
- jim99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Open TCP Port: 1025 openport
AARGH!! All the open ports are driving me nuts... I think i'll just go buy a wii... - SwabTheDeck, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23How come nobody uses the "spend several days trying to guess the root password manually" attack anymore?
- steal_apps01, on 10/12/2007, -5/+25man the french title was great "Ownez cette Playstation 3 et gagnez-la !" man talk about anglesism's and franglais.
- pookpooi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+21Let's use Digg Effect.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17Yes... Too bad every possible port imaginable reads as open... lol...
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+17You go ahead and try it then.
With $600 worth of equiptment at stake, his password is probably something like "23huv8vj66p4cx90qpsokca2680sxgna". - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21I was actually, and I'm surprised any fellow diggers knew what the word meant! We'll get dugg down for having good grammar skills now though, or up maybe, or possibly kept at 0 if they follow the "new rule". Oh well.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Smart people will also include their details with the email to him in to prevent this from happening.
- macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Whatever, I personally use pwn in french quite a lot! Mais je réussirai pas à pwner une PS3 parce que j'ai ni le savoir, ni le temps! - macbookpromat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Hmmmmm cheap servers! Not a bad idea!
- subhuman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14The only services running are Publicfile HTTPD (a VERY secure http daemon) and OpenSSH 4.3(which is secure- has one DoS exploit that I know of - and a DoS wouldn't help here).
all the other ports are open - with no services running on them - except port 343 which is dropping all packets sent to it so it's showing up as "filtered".
I would be very suprised if this does get rooted - its a very secure setup. - malkir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I'm just gonna say it now, I'll be really impressed with anyone that pulls this off. No forms, no backend database, no services running except the webserver. All I can say is, good luck to anyone with enough time on their hands to try this.
- scottious, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12This is in the bottom of the HTML of the page, it probably means nothing but maybe someone has some insight that I don't.
PPPC
9280 8736 1010 2874 1099 1546 9890 5436 1287 0009
6588 6768 2020 5790 9622 1257 9087 5445 8987 1009
1120 0098 3030 2632 8279 6843 4554 3266 3789 2018
3DA4 430E 4040 53E0 35C8 5A52 2415 48BD 4911 7424
DDDH - Zellius, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10No kidding. A vuln in publicfile would be seriously profitable. If someone actually has a vuln they can use to get this PS3, they should rather just sell it to one of the many security sites that buy vulns for upwards of $5000.
Or, they can even go the route of the black market and sell it for even more. - EbenieRosa, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11It's PWN to OWN :)
Instead of rent to own ;) - SirRX7, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11"You will also have to put a text file with you name and postal address in the root user's home directory, inside the "ps3_challenge" subfolder."
Does this mean that the second, third and so on person to gain entry just has to change the text file and he'd get the PS3? - GravisZro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10in this fight of World vs PS3 running Linux, my money on the PS3 running Linux.
- idonthack, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11It's more about bandwidth than processing power.
- JK1150, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Wouldn't this be the same as hacking a regular server running FC5? Wouldn't that be a pretty big security deal for the guys who work on FC if their server could be hacked?
- klawz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8@tyn4n did you even read the requirements? Doens't seem like it from your post.
- sirius889, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Yea, but the guy IS running SSH server on a machine that I suppose is in his own home... so guessing the root's passwd is probably the only point of entry.
...mabe a clue on his webpage? -
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