On Saturday night, the well-known hacker Mathieu Hervais posted on his Twitter that he had found a way to exploit Sony PlayStation 3 firmware 3.56 although he refuses to release the details, as not to anger Sony.
Says Hervais:
I hesitated a lot before tweeting about it, but a bug allows exploiting metldr, the bootloader and 3.56+. I don’t intent to ever unveil it.
So much for “unhackable” ps3s though….
The hacker will not unveil the exploit, but says “this wasn’t about getting attention at all, or fame, this was just done so the right people know this bug is there for the finding.”
Hervais’ decision comes after Sony has taken custom firmware creator Geohot to court, as well as subpoenaed IP addresses of other hackers and even casual visitors of Geohot’s site and YouTube account.
Result for: ip addresses
Spanish researchers at the Carlos III University of Madrid have posted interesting results today in regards to filesharing.
The researchers say a tiny fraction of users are responsible for over two-thirds of all content published, and over three-fourths of all downloads.
Using the names, ISPs and IP addresses of uploaders and downloaders to 55,000 torrents published to Mininova and the Pirate Bay, the group concluded that just 100 users were behind 67 percent of the uploads and 75 percent of the downloads.
Result for: ip addresses
The Internet currently uses IPv4 (Internet Protocol version 4), which uses 32-bit numbers, allowing for the availability of a total of 4 billion IP addresses.
According to experts, about 94 percent of those addresses have already been allocated, and the Internet may run out of IP addresses by 2011, at least under the current IPv4 system.
A new system, IPv6, would use 128-bit numbers, allowing for an almost infinite amount of IP addresses. So far, however, adoption has been slow.
If adoption of the new system doesn’t happen soon, Google Internet evangelist Vint Cerf warns that a “black market” for IP addresses would start, taking “away from the decentralized nature of the Internet.”
“Without IPv6, the Internet’s expansion and innovation could be limited,” also notes American Registry for Internet Numbers president and CEO John Curran. “Delaying IPv6 deployment may strain the work of Internet operators, application developers, and end users everywhere.”
Google is one of few companies that already puts all its services on the IPv6 protocol, with Facebook being another notable company.
Verizon and Comcast, two of the largest ISPs, have begun testing the protocol, as well.
