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Microsoft foils Xbox hackers with new Config

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the spoiling-all-the-fun dept.

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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  1. Re:legal and legitimate by Enry · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Soooo....you think it's illegal to buy a mod chip or otherwise mod your DVD player to play out-of-region DVDs?

    While the original poster's comments about MSFT twarting competition goes back a ways, more recently they have been doing this with SMB/CIFS. The Samba crew has seen cases where some insignificant changes were made to the protocol such that they would 'break' Samba while still working with other Windows boxes.

    So the battle will continue. And more effort is wasted as a result.

  2. DOA4 by iamethan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The real question:

    Does any of this effect DOA Extreme Beach Volleyball??!?

  3. Business plans and profit talk not allowed here. by glrotate · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    This is a VA Linux site.

  4. On the fate of Ximian's Mono by InodoroPereyra · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I hope I am wrong. But should we expect something different for Mono ? Is microsoft not going to screw them when and if .Net and Mono get bigger ? I respect Miguel so much for what he did and does for Gnome. But from the announcement of Mono I always had a bad feeling. I DO NOT trust microsoft, and I think I have reasons why.