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X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended
powerlord writes "The Neo Project (mentioned in a recent slashdot article) recently stopped its bid to recover the X-Box private key citing legal reasons: "Due to legal reasons, we will no longer be hosting or participating in the xbox challenge." DCers.com, a site devoted to distributed computing sheds some light on Neo's sudden flip-flop with a blurb claiming that: "... many legitiment DC'ers that have been working this project since it started that have decided to quit because of the new Neo client that also tries to crack the X-Box encryption." and that they believed this might ultimately kill The Neo Project."
Microsoft, again, crushes anything it wants.
It's sad that the reason it shut down is for "legal reasons" instead of "the realization that it was utterly futile".
I guess the XBox commercial slogan "Life is short" applies to everything xbox related, and not just the console itself
Anybody else automatically assume that it had ended because they found the key?
I wish I could read slashdot.org's Apache access_log to see how many times a day Microsoft visits
Karma: The shiznight, mostly because I am the Drizzle.
hmmm see if anyone else can connect the dots:
Neo Project
Futuristic technology
Hacking
Crack the X-box encryption(i.e. the matrix)
Microsoft IS the matrix....
I'm going to hang up my controllers now.... be afraid, be very afraid.... (Cool Music here)
Perhaps one of the first key checked was the right one? It's not *impossible*!
Martin
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Oh, man. Does this mean no more Linux on the X-Box? This news wouldn't be so devastating if there were perhaps some other device capable of running Linux.
*cough*
sometimes companies use lawyers in addition to their loyers.
Conservatives blame Clinton
Liberals blame Reagan
Slashdotters blame Micrsosoft
Yeah, but about as likely as winning the lottery every week of your life, while every hot female in the world beats a path to your door (and you didn't tell them about winning the lottery), hell reaches absolute zero and pigs go supersonic.
Perhaps if you had an infinite improbability drive...
The odds that you will win the Lottery Every Week of your Life: Improbable.
The odds that every female in the world will beat a path to your door: Highly Improbable.
Their odds of doing so without knowing about your money: Very Highly Improbable.
The odds that you would have enough money if all of the above were true: Impossible.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
Easy. Just mirror the discs...
has anyone tried all 1's??? /heh heh heh
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Great... Im gonna be connected to an microsoft product, I can see the blue walls whit error codes already.
Maybe someone wants to develop XBox games (or any other sort of software, I guess) and not pay for Microsoft's expensive "services." If you can boot Linux on an xBox w/out any hardware mods, you can boot anything (or just use Linux as a loader or whatever) and don't have to worry about code signing anymore. So the only expenses you have are the "usual" ones: developing the software, somehow pressing the DVDs, etc. No payment to MS, no weird agreements with MS, etc. Just freedom.
As long as hardware mods are the only way to do this, such projects can't be commercially feasible. You can't easily sell a game at S-Mart to the masses, that only runs on hardware-modified XBoxes. Most of the type of people who buy XBoxes aren't going to be willing to mess with their hardware.
Although if this project had succeeded, neither non-Microsoft-licensed developers nor piracy would have been the big stories of the day. The big story of the day would be the earthshattering sound of thousands of other projects that depend on RSA, scrambling to replace it with something else. The XBox would just be a relatively minor and obscure mote within all the global chaos and confusion. ;-)
As copyright owner of this comment, I authorize everyone to defeat any technological measure which limits access to it.
I don't know about that, but I've heard from a reliable source that if you play an Xbox disc backwards, you hear Satan himself speaking!
Developers! Developers! Developers!
And the password would be 'sa'??
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
But, if you spin the disc backwards, doesn't it say something satanic? "Hello there, this is a message from Bill Gates....WORSHIP ME...WORSHIP ME.....Thank you, and have a nice day...." :-)
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........