Gaming Rage » Encryption

Ubisoft’s New DRM Cracked In One Day

timothy — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 02:58:00 +0000

Colonel Korn writes “Ubisoft’s recent announcement that upcoming games would require a constant internet connection in order to play has been discussed at length on Slashdot (’The Awful Anti-Pirate System That Will Probably Work’). Many were of the opinion that this new, more demanding DRM would have effectiveness to match its inconvenience, at least financially justifying its use. Others assumed that it would be immediately cracked, as is usually the case, leaving the inconvenience for paying customers and resulting in a superior product for pirates. As usual, the latter group was right. Though Ubisoft won’t yet admit it, Skid-Row managed to crack the new DRM less than a day after it was first released.”

US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption

timothy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:16:00 +0000

Entropy98 writes “It seems that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Cyber Crimes Center, known as C3, has replaced its ‘$8,000 Tableau/Dell server combination’ with more efficient and much cheaper $300 PS3s. Each PS3 is capable of 4 million passwords per second, and C3 currently has 20 PS3s with plans to buy 40 more. Naturally this is only being used to break encryption on computers seized with a warrant and suspected of harboring child pornography.”

BBtv “Hacker HOWTO”: Cold Boot Encryption Attack

strodick — Wed, 14 May 2008 21:28:42 +0000

Posted by Xeni Jardin, May 12, 2008 6:31 AM