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US Government Using PS3s To Break Encryption

Posted by timothy on from the purchase-order-shenanigans dept.

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."

3 of 570 comments (clear)

  1. imagine by trb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these.

  2. Re:What by sopssa · · Score: -1, Redundant

    So much for the right to be presumed innocent until PROVED guilty.

    Why do you quote US sentences with other countries? "Innocent until proved guilty" comes from US, and while usually true elsewhere too, you seem to just flame with this shit again.

  3. Re:This only works on poor passwords by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    spageti4dinner

    spageti

    You've already defeated the dictionary in your post!