PS3 hacking contest

A PlayStation 3 owner is inviting people to hack their way into his console - with the first person to manage it winning the machine itself.
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Shimpinomori's website is offering a PS3 with a 160GB hard disk, Linux pre-installed, Resistance: Fall of Man and an HDMI cable to anybody who can break in and swap a few files around.

The website itself is running on the PS3, he says, and in order to win the console bundle interested parties need to do a "clean" hacking job ("no DOS, no dirty attack which saturate the Internet tubes") and then swap out the photograph of a baby holding a PS3 box currently displayed for another file, send an email and post some notices on a forum.

As you can see from the site itself though, nobody's managed it yet.

The hacking contest is running until January 2007.

Eurogamer.net

Hah too bad I am not a hacker.

this could end badly...

Chances are the person hosting the contest knows what he is doing, and can probably hack anyone who attempts to ruin his contest or computers or network into oblivion. Because I know I sure as hell would not host a contest unless I was absolutely certain that I was one of the best hackers in the world and could protect myself from malicious users.