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Microsoft to Hire Xbox Hackers?
handsomepete writes "According to PlanetXbox, Microsoft is looking to hire 'software design engineers' to look into the properties of modchips and detection code for hardware. A background in game hacking knowledge is listed as a preferred talent. Will any of the Xbox Linux participants take a stab at this job?"
This is a perfect opportunity to get a decent hacker inside Microsoft.
Sometimes to defeat the beast, you have to get into the "belly of the beast".
It is sad admission for Microsoft to put out this help wanted sign and admit that they don't already have the inhouse talent to deal with this problem. After all the XBOX is x86 architecture and no-one should do x86 better than the Microsoft.
If any XBOX hacker does decide to take this job and relocate to Redmond, whatever you do, don't sign your IP (Intellectual Property) rights away. That is the paper that states that Microsoft will own any thought you have past, present, or future just because they hired you at some point. Then when you quit, they can't threaten to sue you over every email and code post. You'll be FREE of the beast.
Once you are inside and have them believing you have turned to the darkside, we still need the source code for Windows 2000 and Windows NT so we can figure out exactly what a PDC (Primary Domain Controller) is doing. Also, we will need a back door engineering into the Palladium hardware so we can run all our Opensource rippers and players as trusted code on the x86 architecture.
And remember boys and girls, "Security is an illusion!"