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Keeping Secrets in Hardware: Xbox Case Study
BS405397 writes "Here is the just released MIT whitepaper on the security holes in the MS X-Box, and for those who are interested, opens up the X-Box pretty nicely." Update: 06/04 17:13 GMT by M : The server appears to be down at the moment. There is a copy of the paper mirrored here. Reuters and other news outlets have now picked up the story, two days after Slashdot.
Doesn't this violate the DMCA?
Doesn't everything?
There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em.
Inconceivable!
While the rest of the world waits for the site to come available...
Let's all go to the lobby,
Let's all got to the lobby,
Let's all go to the lobby...
To get ourselves a drink!
you don't have to outrun the bear, just the slowest person in your group.
here is a mirror
I put on my robe and wizard hat.
I like this part about MS guy:
The speaker at this talk also indicated that the kernel on the Xbox is a much-stripped-down Win2k derivative (from 12 MB to around 23kB).
(from their website)
What is there to study about the Xbox case? Its butt ugly ;)
...that we will be able to play NetHack on the xbox?
I got a grudging thumbs up, so to speak, from Microsoft on my Xbox reverse engineering work
I think I'd much rather he post what must've been a very entertaining conversation with a Microsoft spokesperson than the bios to the XBox.
Microsoft, not content with just SOFTWARE security holes, has now moved on to HARDWARE security holes.
"secret" boat loader
This was obviously a typo. I think he meant to say: secret bloat loader.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
From the paper:
"...it is an error to assume that a secret, distributed along with the information it guards, is never revealed."I don't know about that. It seems to have worked for the Word file format.
My XBox web server is vulnerable? I guess I'll just have to download a patch from windows update!
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
You've beaten my Windows, which means you're exceptionally strong, so you could have put the poison in your own goblet, trusting in your strength to save you, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of you. But, you've also bested my X-Box, which means you must have studied, and, in studying, you must have learned that man is mortal, so you would have put the poison as far from yourself as possible, so I can clearly not choose the wine in front of me!
Yes, you know a guy has really made it in the world when he has a blonde girlfriend. (Not a cheap knockoff, or just a very light brunette, but a genuine, certified blonde.)
So it's possible? Sick!
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