BBC NEWS | Technology | PlayStation speeds password probe

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7118997.stm

From the page: “The powerful chip at the heart of Sony’s PlayStation gaming console has been used to crack passwords faster than ever before.

Security researcher Nick Breese used a PS3 to crack supposedly strong eight-character passwords in hours.

Typically, previous attempts to crack such passwords took days to get the same result.”