Comment Atari founder not that bright! (Score 1) 831
Ok, being a former hacker (ok I still do it but still), My unofficial Hackers Rule Book tells me that Mr. Bushnell is not that bright. Hackers Law #1, Always make backups. But #3 states if someone claims it's unbreakable... BREAK IT!.
Mr. Bushnell has opened the door for hackers across the globe to crack his unbreakable toy. Historically, every single company, person, and government that has made such claims, their technology was hacked in hours to weeks, and in rare cases months. Now granted some times this is on purposes so they "might" figure out how to patch that hole, but it's useless. In the hacker world, the locks can be picked, the encryption gets decrypted, and we sit back and say.. nice try. If you really piss us off bad enough, we release the code on how to do it.
Blueray/HDDVD said it would take what, 10 years to crack? It was initially cracked in what, a week? Then everyone knew how to do it in a month. How much more of an invite do these companies need to do to be shown up?
My best guess is if you really want something unhackable, DO NOT ADVERTISE THAT IT CAN'T BE HACKED!
Now if you want REAL security, hire a team of top notch hackers and give them what THEY want not what you want and you may very well get a seriously good product that will be hard to hack. But always remember Hackers Law #2, There will ALWAYS be someone better than yourself.
l8r
Mr. Bushnell has opened the door for hackers across the globe to crack his unbreakable toy. Historically, every single company, person, and government that has made such claims, their technology was hacked in hours to weeks, and in rare cases months. Now granted some times this is on purposes so they "might" figure out how to patch that hole, but it's useless. In the hacker world, the locks can be picked, the encryption gets decrypted, and we sit back and say.. nice try. If you really piss us off bad enough, we release the code on how to do it.
Blueray/HDDVD said it would take what, 10 years to crack? It was initially cracked in what, a week? Then everyone knew how to do it in a month. How much more of an invite do these companies need to do to be shown up?
My best guess is if you really want something unhackable, DO NOT ADVERTISE THAT IT CAN'T BE HACKED!
Now if you want REAL security, hire a team of top notch hackers and give them what THEY want not what you want and you may very well get a seriously good product that will be hard to hack. But always remember Hackers Law #2, There will ALWAYS be someone better than yourself.
l8r
