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US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption
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."
Perhaps they're just hitting people with them?
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Thanks, we'll just skip ahead to the password we would have be trying 36,030,233,524,592,808,479,552,335 years from now, and crack your encryption today!
"Look, we'll give you a PS3 if you tell us your password.
"We'll even throw in the HDMI cable. We'll get it eventually; this way you and I can both go home before lunchtime."
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
+1 funny.
What's your password?
"Please stop hitting me."
What's your password?
"Please stop hitting me!"
What's your password?
"I TOLD you my password!"
(smack). No you didn't! You're acting like a child. Stop playing these games. Tell us your password!
"pleasetophittingme"!!!!!
(smack). Oh great. He's unconscious.
FOX NEWS.com should be BANNED from television and internet. Have the Congress take it over and give us Truespeak.
Could be worse, imagine if it was "fuck you, stupid customs official"