Microsoft foils Xbox hackers with new Config

randomizer9 writes was among several readers who noted that Microsoft has changed the configs on the XBox and really messed up the hackers who have been trying to coax the box into being divx players, linux boxes, microwave ovens, white noise generators and so on. Kinda doubt the conspiracy angle, but it certainly is annoying.

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absolutely shocking

[capt.Hij]

Let's see... MS updates their bios and changes some of their chips. Now the boxes can't be hacked. The next thing you know someone will post a story about how the new boxes can be hacked which will be followed by the horror that the next updates will defeat those hacks. Oh the humanity.

Re:there's an old dutch proverb

[Maran]

"Eventually Microsoft will run out of digits (as in the fingers & toes)."

And then they'll use another part of the male anatomy. But that's nothing new - they've been fucking their users for years.

Maran

Re:Application of the word security disturbing.

[jridley]

She meant JOB security, namely hers and other MS employees.

No, really, security is just their new buzzword. "We're all working on security now."

If Bill had called for MS to increase their twinkie awareness, then no matter what they were doing, they'd call it a twinkie. "We changed the EULA." Why? "Because we're always working to increase the level of twinkies in our products."