Xbox Security Keys Changed

anth writes: "A couple a months ago we discussed some reverse engineering of the Xbox which discovered the security code. The last paragraph of this letter from Nvidia says MS changed the code, and that they had to write off chips with old code as a result."

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News For the Braindead: Stuff Obvious to Everyone

[FreeUser]

There is a huge threat of terrorism in America, the land of the free, right now and you folks are not helping by spreading this illegal material around.

I speak as an American when I say:

Who give's one rat's ass about terrorism?

I mean really. Yes, 9/11 was a terrible trajedy in which 3,000 people were murdered by a wealthy, spoiled Saudi Arabian bigot's henchmen in the name of an obsolete religion[1], but I hate to break the news to you that over ten times as many people have died in car accidents as were killed on that day.

Terrorists can wreak localized, very dramatic havoc, kill a few people and scare a whole bunch more, but in reality there is very little actual harm they can do to us, even with such events as 9/11. Earthquakes in this country (and elsewhere) have killed more, sometimes (e.g. Japan) an order of magnitude more.

Of course, none of this talk of terrorism has anything whatsoever to do with x-box mod chips, or the rather sinister habit corporate america and government have gotten into in invading our homes and telling us what we are and are not allowed to do with our own property, which we purchased with our own money, while stealing from the public commons with the other hand and handing our common property to the same thieving thugs that would restrict our use of our property and forcibly place us on the couch in order to facilitate shoving more of their worthless, commercial-ridden crap down our unwilling throats, but I digress.

In short, the DMCA is a cure for a nonexistent problem, a cure that resembles arsenic for treatment of the common cold. Likewise the USA Patriot Act is a cure vastly worse than the disease ... if 3,000 murdered people each year is the price we have to pay to remain free, it is a price I will gladly pay, even being one who works right across the street from one of Osama's big targets (when he isn't targeting the backside of that mule with his ... well, nevermind).

I will not stand idly by and have my freedom taken, whether it be by terrorists from abroad, mindless idiots like yourself, the US government in the name of [insert this week's wars on whatever], or the media cartels of Hollywood. In short, you can have my general purpose, unencumbered, DRM free computer when you pry it from my cold, dead hands, and not a moment before.
[1]Is there any religion that isn't obsolete?