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Researchers Use PlayStation Cluster to Forge Web Skeleton Keys

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Category: Cryptography

Published on Tuesday, 30 December 2008 00:00

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How to create a rogue CA certificate...

We (note Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger) have identified a vulnerability in the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) used to issue digital certificates for secure websites. As a proof of concept we executed a practical attack scenario and successfully created a rogue Certification Authority (CA) certificate trusted by all common web browsers. This certificate allows us to impersonate any website on the Internet, including banking and e-commerce sites secured using the HTTPS protocol.

[..] "A single attempt for constructing a chosen-prefix collision costs about a little more than a day. The first stage consisting of the birthday search is computationally the most expensive. Luckily it is also very suited for the special SPU cores of the Cell Processor that the Sony PlayStation 3 uses. We had about 200 PS3s at our disposal, located at the "PlayStation Lab" of Arjen Lenstra at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland (see the picture). The birthdaying takes about 18 hours on the 200 PS3s using 30GB of memory that was equally divided over the PS3s. The second stage computes the 3 collision blocks that eliminate the IHV differences left after the first stage and costs in total about 3 to 10 hours on a high-end quadcore pc." from http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

Note: only certificate signed with MD5 are forgeable, and it required a lot of knowledge and money at the moment... unfortunately these are things that spammer, thief and zombies network have at disposal. By luck as soon as Verisign switch to a more secure hashing function, the problem will be solved (Verisign will phase MD5 by January out)

Note2: even a geek need 1 week to understand the explanations ;-)

Read more at http://www.win.tue.nl/hashclash/rogue-ca/

Little Big Planet 2 reserved

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Category: Little Big Planet

Published on Saturday, 25 December 2010 21:44

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Oh Yes end of year is near, and the best game for the PS3 is back again: Little Big Planet 2

I already did reserved mine and you?

My Playstation Network  ID is MagicianLord see you soon in the GAME!

Available 8 January, 2011 USA andEurope on 19 January 2011

 

 

 

 

 

 

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All Playstation lenses in one post

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Category: Sony PS3

Published on Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:36

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I will keep this post up to date with all possible PS3 lenses, you are welcome to send me any new/better pictures. As say a lot of time before. Open up your PS3 before ordering any of these optical lenses online. There is no guarantee that your model with have one of the other model. This post should help you identify which lens to order.

KES-410ACA Playstation 3

KES-400A Playstation 3  40GB

KES-450A Playstation 3 slim

KES-460A Playstation 3 slim 160-320GB

LittleBig Planet - Sackboy 11" Statue holder

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Category: Little Big Planet

Published on Sunday, 25 July 2010 17:10

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Just order 2 statues (one for me and one for my brother) 10 minutes ago on ebay.com.uk  If you’re a fan and want to keep your console controller, portable gaming system, mobile phone with style, look no further!

They cost 30€ each, a small prize if you consider all the low quality Sackboy floating everywhere on ebay, in shops.

LittleBigPlanet is a unique community-based game with a hugely innovative concept behind it. Players meet on a blue and green planet scattered with individual plots - and use their character's amazing abilities to play, create and share what they build with other gamers throughout the world via PlayStation Network.

Keep your console controller, portable gaming system, mobile phone -or any thing you like - safe with this 11" Sackboy holder.

This product is officially made by Sony under license from the Copyright holder.

Link to Play.com shop (32.50 euro)

Using your PS3 PlayStation Eye as a PC webcam

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Category: Sony PS3

Published on Sunday, 28 March 2010 21:33

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The PlayStation Eye is a webcam device by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3 video game console. It is the successor to the EyeToy for the PlayStation 2. In case you have one floating around that you do not use for gaming, why not trying to use it as a webcam? You can find them cheap everywhere on ebay, ricardo.ch, leboncoin.fr

It is not anymore difficult to make this webcam work under Windows (Sony sell this camera since 2007), as there is good and stable drivers now available. I did test the webcam under Windows 7 64 bits and Skype. It work great as long as there is enough lights in the room.Note that the multi-directional microphone is quite exceptional of quality (The PS3 use it for voice location tracking, echo cancellation, and background noise suppression.)

 

Features

• 640×480 pixels @ 60 Hz,
• 320x240 pixels @ 120 Hz

Read more: Using your PS3 PlayStation Eye as a PC webcam

LittleBigPlanet 2 available on 16 november 2010

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Category: Little Big Planet

Published on Friday, 23 July 2010 22:55

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My favorite game of ALL time on PlayStation 3 (my PS3 nickname is MagicianLord) is coming soon in a new version

LittleBigPlanet 2

Simply put the most creative game ever made since Mario Bros!  so big that users have create 2 MILLIONS levels!!!!

Watch the online trailer

Sackbots, Cinematic tools, New game play modes for creating your own in games!!!!

Watch more trailer at Youtube dedicated page http://www.youtube.com/user/LittleBigPlanet

Official site with all new functionalities described at http://www.littlebigplanet.com/en-us/2/

And finally dont forget to read also all my previous articles on Little Big Planet!

Meet me in Little Big Planet :-)

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Category: Little Big Planet

Published on Saturday, 08 November 2008 00:00

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I am currently playing a lot with Little Big Planet, you can find me there with my PSN ID: MagicianLord PSN ID is a reference to ELTA the last Magician Lord in the 1991 SNK game

In between ...

For all of you wanting to learn how to create better levels, Sony has started a new site LittleBigWorkshop
LittleBigWorkshop is your personal creative canvas to inspire ingenuity, creative synergy, or for those of you
who are just curious. 

Want to customize your SackBoy? then head to http://mysackboy.littlebigplanet.com/ This Little Big Planet
site which lets you create your own little SackBoy

Also new costumes are coming (unfortunately from $0.99 to $1.99)

Hope someone will one day reverse engineered the server protocol to see also different content (good or bad the
world shall not be controlled too much)

Change your Ps3 lens KES-400AAA and KES-410A or KES-410ACA

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Category: Sony PS3

Published on Friday, 20 March 2009 00:00

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Side by side, here are the PS3 lenses that are currently available for your PS3. If you ever decide to change the lens yourself, my best advice is to always open your PS3 first before ordering any new lens as there is no way to determine which model use which lens.

Attention: PS3 40gb may use a different lens: LENS KES-410A or KES-410ACA (but some ps3 40gb has been found with the other lens KES-400AAA)

 
KES-400AAA on the left, KES-410A on the right

Change your PS3 Bluray lens yourself

Thanks to Sarah for allowing me to publish this picture on my site.

Most creative Little big Planet level

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Category: Little Big Planet

Published on Saturday, 24 January 2009 00:00

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Space station 42 By Santana03

Dinosaurs Island 2 By Feistyfrog

Robot Town By jump_button 

Metal Revolution By Blorf

Ruins of the Roller[JPN] By O-tera

 “karakuri chochin yashiki” [JPN] By TOUKi555

Error 80010514 on PS3, how to change your lens

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Category: Sony PS3

Published on Wednesday, 11 February 2009 00:00

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And about Hotlinking/bandwidth stealing. While looking at back link in Google, a thing very important to look at (Google page rank, who say what about me), I came about 2 forums entries

• http://www.gamespot.com/pages/unions/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26627261&union_id=17061 and
• http://gamersinc.in/forum/archive/index.php?t-28.html

Come on, don't do that, this is plain bandwidth stealing! you reduced my number of visitors! why not just having a link to the ORIGINAL article? My domain name belong to me till 2015, so It wont disappear tomorrow.

What is Bandwidth Stealing ?

There are many forms of bandwidth stealing on the web today. However, the bandwidth theft on here is image/graphic stealing, and is the bandwidth theft that occurs most. That is when you find an image you like and you are:

1. are too cheap to have server space of your own to use -and/or-
2. are too lazy to upload the image to your own server -and/or-
3. are uneducated about the crime you are committing -or all of the above-

Crime? Yes, it is a crime. The person whose site the image is on that you are linking to for the source of the image is paying the server costs, the bandwidth and loosing ad revenues.

I did implement a solution in .htaccess to avoid that, but has seen a dramatic drop in number of visitors, as Google images, live search images are also referencing some files on my server directly. I did switch this off now. I just hope people will get educated enough to understand the problem they create when they simply hotlinks content.