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New "Secure" Xbox Cracked In Under A Week

Posted by timothy on from the salmon-swimming-upstream dept.

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.'"

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  1. If you secure it, they will come... by LowAmmoWarning · · Score: 5, Funny

    and crack it.

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  2. The Xbox is Microsoft's test of Palladium by jjh37997 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

    1. Re:The Xbox is Microsoft's test of Palladium by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Ah - Microsoft's agents are modding the parent funny.

  3. Re:If they cant secure an Xbox. by vinyl1 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Actually, the paddalium is what Bill Gates will shortly be applying to the bottoms of these naughty hackers.

  4. Re:Some damn idea by MyHair · · Score: 5, Funny

    Um, did he just say "imagine a beowulf cluster of these" (albeit with different wording) and get modded to +4 interesting?

  5. Re:You should be ashamed of yourselves. by JungleBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    No. I think he means these

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