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A Tokyo-based hosting company is offering a Playstation 3 prize for the first person to hack into their linux running PS3.

Shimpinomori.NET has hooked up a PS3 console running Linux to the internet and has announced the first person to hack the machine will in fact with it a sa prize.

The contest, running until next january, is open to every hacker on the planet, with a few common-sense rules : no "dirty" attacks, no messing with any other equipment than th PS3 itself. The first person to manage to replace the photo of the child shown on the site with another photo hidden inside the machine will be declared the winner, and the PS3 (which hard disk has been replaced with a beefy 160 GB SATA drive), with an HDMI cable, the game "Resistance" and -of course- Linux preinstalled, will be awarded and sent free of charge by EMS international.

0wn a PS3 and own it ! The 2006 year-end hacking challenge !