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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. Numbnut?? by CmdrTypo · · Score: 0, Troll

    It's "numbnuts", numbnuts. (Unless you really only have got one ...)

  2. Only Microsoft by Wolfgang · · Score: 0, Troll

    While reading a lot (not all) of the postings here I wonder if only Microsoft implements such strong security
    I mean a company like Micrsosoft, is there any larger one? Or ist that Microsoft?
    What about other companies comparable, like Oracle, is their security as weak as the one of Micky Mouse^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hrosoft?
    America, where are you going?