F-Secure bricks a PSP on camera

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October 20th, 2005, 17:54
wraggster

F-Secure bricks a PSP on camera

Source - Engadget

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)

More at http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/
October 20th, 2005, 18:34
xmodx

That is just God awful but look at the table with the screen in the middle... I need on of those!
October 20th, 2005, 18:35
SmashinGit

Why would anyone purposely do this? They must get paid very well at F-Secure.
October 20th, 2005, 21:48
Tron_Fan

What did they run, exactly, that did that?
October 20th, 2005, 22:27
Stew2000

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 ***
October 20th, 2005, 22:43
PSP_Newbie

omg!! ahhh!!! that poor psp.....it was gruesome to watch.....heartbreaking... *cry*
October 21st, 2005, 02:49
scx0r

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
October 21st, 2005, 02:51
scx0r

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.
October 21st, 2005, 08:40
asterothjames

lol ha ha/\ aww i could of had this psp
October 21st, 2005, 17:48
wakeuphater

poor psp. sigh.
October 21st, 2005, 19:48
wakeuphater

Quote:

Originally Posted by Stew2000

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.