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Keeping Secrets in Hardware: Xbox Case Study

Posted by michael on from the peeling-the-onion dept.

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.

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  1. Re:DMCA... by Darth_brooks · · Score: 5, Funny

    Doesn't this violate the DMCA?

    Doesn't everything?

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  2. Security holes? In a Microsoft product? by Moosifer · · Score: 5, Funny

    Inconceivable!

    1. Re:Security holes? In a Microsoft product? by vile7707 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

  3. This means... by Drakker · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...that we will be able to play NetHack on the xbox?

  4. Re:Modularity and excessive code... by Moonshadow · · Score: 5, Funny
    stripped-down Win2k derivative (from 12 MB to around 23kB).

    What'd they do, remove IE?

  5. Thumbs up? by handsomepete · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Thumbs up? by agdv · · Score: 4, Funny
      Weird... that guy sounds exactly like the guy I talked to when my copy of XP wouldn't activate.


      They're building an army of clones. You hadn't heard?

  6. In other news, ... by Tony-A · · Score: 3, Funny

    Microsoft, not content with just SOFTWARE security holes, has now moved on to HARDWARE security holes.

  7. Re:well by DickBreath · · Score: 5, Funny

    "secret" boat loader

    This was obviously a typo. I think he meant to say: secret bloat loader.

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  8. Oh no! by DarkHelmet · · Score: 3, Funny

    My XBox web server is vulnerable? I guess I'll just have to download a patch from windows update!

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  9. Re:Read this guy's project list by acb · · Score: 3, Funny

    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.)