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."

Comments

Guess Nvidia didn't read the EULA

[SmallFurryCreature]

MS has the right to update and fix any software bit automaticcaly. :P

blamed

[mmThe1]

We never blamed Xbox.

Yes, Microsoft is the one. I never blame Windows or Visual Studio.

My heart weeps

[jmd!]

And that we will be taking an inventory write off in Q2 related to the amount of Xbox MCPs that were made obsolete when MSFT transitioned to a new security code (by way of the MIT hacker) and excess in nForce chipsets that we built in anticipation of higher demand of Athlon-based PCs.

O poor monopoly powers. Entire chip lines and console plans changed by a lone MIT student.

I love it.

geek girl

[t_allardyce]

"My girlfriend and I spent friday night in the lab together"

Oh man :( i wish i had a girlfriend like that. actually... i wish i had a girlfriend lol.

Re:geek girl

[Raul654]

It's time like these there should be a "+1, Pitiful" as a moderator option. Or, -1 maybe?

Re:This is a nice move from Microsoft

[Anonymous Coward]

Your argument is convincing. I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Re:This is a nice move from Microsoft

[Jah-Wren Ryel]

Dude, MTV hasn't meant Music Television for more than a decade now. It's been Marketing Television ever since...

Re:X-Box vs. geek girl

[SkyLeach]

You guys really don't have grilfriends do you?

Compared to the EULA which comes with most females, M$'s EULA might as well read "do anything you want, anytime you want, any way you want".

Let's start with the basic rundown. The standard-issue female comes with a EULA which you "sign" without ever getting to read it. Any use whatsoever (even just looking at said female for very long) is considered signing. You are never allowed to read the EULA, but it will be referred to many times. Even should you abandon, leave or loose your female much of the EULA will remain in effect, and any parts of it can be re-enacted at her choosing at any future date. Even when you are given small glimpses into what this EULA might contain, it is usually encrypted and encoded in a format most males find completely confusing.

I would quote some of the more haneous parts of the female EULA, but my female's EULA promises dire concequences should I do so.