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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.'"

11 of 331 comments (clear)

  1. Re:All Right!! by teamhasnoi · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    You forgot, "GET SOME PRIORITIES!"

    I thought that it was to prove a point that a linux webserver can run on anything.

  2. Re:Confucius say ... by FooBarWidget · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    ...but can hear, smell and taste better than those who can see.

  3. Re:DONT SUPPORT REDHAT! by FooBarWidget · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually China hasn't "assimilated" any country since... a couple of hundred years. Tibet has been part of China for centuries.

  4. Hackers have already done that for you . . . by Idou · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    it's called Linux. You just haven't downloaded it yet.

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    1. Re:Hackers have already done that for you . . . by PatJensen · · Score: 1, Offtopic
      Linux won't. But Mac OS X will. :)

      (Some Apple zealotry for today, since the moderators are on a roll..)

      -Pat

  5. Re:Some Background by Ektanoor · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Go learn some latin:

    Vici means win in latin. Vici is the root for most latin words meaning win, and I know a few of them. Slavic languages translate it to pobedil, also english win. Besides, Cesar said this after his blitzkrieg against the king of Bosphorous and surprised the Senate for his early return.

  6. Re:Some Background by epine · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Hey Levi, what's Latin for "I came, I saw, I pissed on my own face". Show some respect for the complexity of language.

  7. Re:DONT SUPPORT REDHAT! by KingJoshi · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Actually China hasn't "assimilated" any country since... a couple of hundred years. Tibet has been part of China for centuries.

    yeah, and that's why china had to use an army to convince Tibet and the Dalai Lama is currently in exile. Because Tibet was already a province of China. And even though Tibet was already a province of China, the Dalai Lama wrote letters to Great Britain, the U.S. and others asking for help during that "non-invasion".

    The take-over of Tibet, the destruction of the culture and society and trying to position their own as the next Dalai Lama and the lack of interest by the international community is a downright travesty. China's actions on Tibet, in my opinion, is one of the worst actions they've committed in that past century, if not the worst.

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  8. Oh, you thought the US was the whole world? by pjammer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Wha ... wha ... what do you mean ... IT'S NOT!!?!?!?!

    I mean, that's why the Internet is called America Online, right? It's supposed to be about America! :P

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  9. w00t! by bbtom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...

    Still, it's good that they did this.

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  10. Re:You should be ashamed of yourselves. by smcn · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Please, don't take food out of a fellow American(tm)

    I agree. It could get quite messy.