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wraggster
October 20th, 2005, 17:54
Source - Engadget (http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000910064268/)

If you were ever curious as to exactly what was entailed in a PSP-bricking (for the uninitiated, that’s when running some code that kills your PSP entirely), famed antivirus company F-Secure (who we hope you should well know by now) plunked down the $250 to do an on-camera bricking, for, um, educational purposes. It’s not pretty. In fact, you may want to shield their eyes if you’ve got children (or gamers) in the room. The lesson to learn here? Always use protection, kids—never run unverified arbitrary code.

Bricking Video (14mb WMV) (http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/bricking_psp.wmv)

More at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
xmodx
October 20th, 2005, 18:34
That is just God awful but look at the table with the screen in the middle... I need on of those!
SmashinGit
October 20th, 2005, 18:35
Why would anyone purposely do this? They must get paid very well at F-Secure.
Tron_Fan
October 20th, 2005, 21:48
What did they run, exactly, that did that?
Stew2000
October 20th, 2005, 22:27
Three things to say about that video:
1. Cool stand.
2. I want to throw a PSP across the room like that.
3. It just shows how so much money can go to waste in a split second.
*** DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS ***
PSP_Newbie
October 20th, 2005, 22:43
omg!! ahhh!!! that poor psp.....it was gruesome to watch.....heartbreaking... *cry*
scx0r
October 21st, 2005, 02:49
i paused the video and attempted to figure out the writing it seemed it said..


psp team 2.0 xxxxxx xxx the 2.0 xxxxx
thanks to (guy who made the firmware exploit toquea or somthing) for the 2.0 exploit :]

where x is ureadable.

Damn the guy who thinks its funn
scx0r
October 21st, 2005, 02:51
Also i forgot to mention f-secure doing this loosing a $$$ from bricking a psp.. but think what they have now achieved media across to all psp owners...Thousands of us.... thats damn cheap advertising :D ..

Think guys... they didnt loose a psp they gained more from the video :)


if anyone wants to donate to me i will be happy in buying a Nintendo DS and snapping it phyiscaly into pieces with my bare hands and release a movie. pm me about this.
asterothjames
October 21st, 2005, 08:40
lol ha ha/\ aww i could of had this psp
wakeuphater
October 21st, 2005, 17:48
poor psp. sigh.
wakeuphater
October 21st, 2005, 19:48
Three things to say about that video:
1. Cool stand.
2. I want to throw a PSP across the room like that.
3. It just shows how so much money can go to waste in a split second.
*** DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS ***


By the way, I have the same thing they're using. Thats the Logitech case that doubles as a stand when you open it and put the top all the way back. It's the same one thats on the news page for the new stuff from lik-sang.