protection researcher Nick Breese has taken his PS3 and tinkered around with it, claiming that the console’s forceful chip is more than capable of being used to crack passwords. To term, a supposedly strong eight-character password takes just a few hours to crack with the PS3, whereas previous attempts normally took days to achieve a similar aftermath thanks to the PS3’s robust Cell processor. that is made

possible as the Cell processor’s architecture made it possible to go through a massive 1.4 billion cycles per second. While that is an interesting exercise, users need not be afraid as the Cell processor is no match for stronger encryption systems used in safeguarding web transactions.

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