Will my Playstation3 and nintendo wii be affected by the serious internet flaw?

Question

will my Playstation3 and nintendo wii what are on cable modem internet be affected by the serious internet flaw that has recently been broadcast on news?

Answer 1

i dont know try and play it.   i bet yull find out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

There is no "serious internet flaw", it's fearmongering by news networks who remain ignorant (and thus pass on this ignorance) to the public.

The only issue at hand here is the physical backbone servers and how they can be compromised by nefarious means.  None of which applies any more to you or me than it should, given you have a decent sense of what sites you "should" be going to.

The flaw he's referring to is a redirect flaw not found on your local machines.  When you type in a site, ie www.yahoo.com, it is resolved into a physical site by a DNS server.  The "flaw" in question is on the backend, where the DNS server can be compromised to send you to a different site than your intended one.

Even if your Wii or PS3 was redirected in this fashion, you'd have to be targeted to be compromised.  There's no real "open" way to not just redirect all traffic from a certain site to a new site and then "Take over" your machine.

Unless the internet really is full of tubes :p

Answer 3

No.

Answer 4

What flaw are you referring 2?