A new hacking contest, presumably designed to test the security of the PlayStation 3 and the special version of Limux created for it, has opened and will run until January 2007. The contest is being held by a new owner, with the prize being the PS3 itself. The system in question is actually running the website which hosts the competition, and is a Linux pre-installed model, with a 160 GB hard-disk, Resistance: Fall of Man and the hotly-debated HDMI cable included.

The shimpinomori site is hosting the competition, with willing participants needing to hack-in 'cleanly' and replace the image on the site's homepage with another photo in the 'ps3_challenge' folder, before notifying shimpinomori via email. The emphasis is on a clean job, with no dirty attacks allowed. The original photograph, of a baby and a PS3 box remains at present, denoting the lack of success to-date. More as we get it.

Source: Eurogamer.net

By Luke Guttridge

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  1. Jonathan Unregistered 2 months ago

    The PS3 looks better as it will not be nuisance in using up to much space like the normal PS3 ..that would be the only problem witht he bigger version, other than that it is the same.