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New "Secure" Xbox Cracked In Under A Week
ilsie writes "Numbnut says it all in his post at xboxhacker.net. To quote his post, 'On behalf of the Xbox Linux Team, I am proud to announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was proven to be running arbitrary BIOS code in a normal 256KByte modchip - with no additional hardware required. In short, in under a week we were able to normalize the new box to enable it to interoperate with Linux properly.'"
and crack it.
We could all benefit from my education.
could these xbox hackers come over and get my ms office from asking for my cd every time i do a 'find' in explorer?
that would REALLY impress me.
Proves that there is nothing microsoft can do to secure the xbox. Oh well, thank god for xbox hackers!
keanmarine.com
The good, hard working, people at Microsoft(tm) have worked long and hard to give you a Video-Game systmem that plays the games you want.
Instead of happily purchasing the system and all twelve games, and three extra HandHurt(tm) controllers - you go and make the poor people at Microsoft(tm) cry.
I think it's time you helped a good American(tm) company like Microsoft, instead of promoting the Communist-Finnish Linux.
Please, don't take food out of a fellow American(tm) - buy your Xbox today!
(MS: Please credit MSDN account #2341 for this post)
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Microsoft would avoid the embarrassment by including a Linux CD with each Xbox.
Don't you get it? The Xbox is Microsoft's test case for Palladium. They try their best to secure the Xbox and wait for the hackers to bust it. They keep on doing this until they find a way to lock it down to the point were nobody can hack it. Then they role out Palladium with all the safe-guards in place and hacker tested. You XBox hackers are just a tool of Microsoft!
Actually, the paddalium is what Bill Gates will shortly be applying to the bottoms of these naughty hackers.
You read a EULA from MS. My guess is you're a competent party, as is MS. The EULA sets forth rules, establishing what you both will or won't do. You give them money, they give you rights. You agree to it or not. You are both obliged to follow the terms of the EULA.
Well, only one party is really bound since MS EULAs always give them the right to modify the terms whenever they feel like it.
Um, did he just say "imagine a beowulf cluster of these" (albeit with different wording) and get modded to +4 interesting?
Security through obscurity:-2
Determined hackers:+2
Subtitle: Cracked in 60 seconds.