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X-Box Private Key Challenge Ended

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-surrprise-there dept.

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."

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  1. Legal reasons by CaseyB · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's sad that the reason it shut down is for "legal reasons" instead of "the realization that it was utterly futile".

  2. Legal reasons? by JimDabell · · Score: 5, Funny

    Anybody else automatically assume that it had ended because they found the key?

    1. Re:Legal reasons? by saider · · Score: 5, Funny

      Code monkey 1: I found the combination!

      Code monkey 2 : What's the combination?

      Code monkey 1: One, two, three, four, five.

      Code monkey 2 : One, two, three, four, five? That's the combination that an idiot has on his luggage.

      <later>

      Neo Lead Developer : Have you got the combination?

      Code monkey 1 : Yes, sir. It's 'one, two, three, four, five'.

      Lead : One, two, three, four, five? My god! That's the same combination I have on my luggage! Retract our challenge and change the combination on my luggage!

      --


      Remember, You are unique...just like everyone else.
  3. Neo Project by screenbert · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

  4. Re:Perhaps they already broke it. by martingunnarsson · · Score: 5, Funny

    Perhaps one of the first key checked was the right one? It's not *impossible*!

    --
    Martin
  5. What? It's over? by Anand_S · · Score: 5, Funny

    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*

  6. Re:Perhaps they already broke it. by AndrewHowe · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  7. Re:On XBOX Emulation by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny
    Awhile back, it was stated that XBox game discs spun backwards, thus making emulation and even making legitimate backups as close to impossible as anyone could ever imagine.
    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!