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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. On XBOX Emulation by Vidmaster_Steve · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    This is somewhat on-topic.

    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.

    As for this current discussion, this makes me totally upset, because I've been wanting, for months for someone to start releasing hacks of our favorite next-gen console games.

    TONY HAWK PRO SEGWAY 2 WILL BE THE BEST ROM HACK EVER. Well, almost as good as Mega Crap...

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  2. Re:Neo Project by nizo · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    It's Neo Project, not New Project... How can you get it right is one part of the post and not another?

    Well you see there is this thing called proof reading...

    ;-)

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  3. Now what am I gonna do with my... by zoid.com · · Score: 0, Offtopic

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    5191141043929531602040535969 8321364177283871960956 9923672820142531423\
    1154135179174732484135445198 3247750938845967420404 6551928328834053889\
    0325273138153871592525085498 7565463644 machines beowulfed in my garage?

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  4. Re:It's offical, Microsoft reads /. by Kintanon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You bastard! you stole my .sig! DIEDIEDIE!
    I'm not sure which one I like better.... hrmm.
    I think I still like mine better.

    Kintanon

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  5. Re:It's offical, Microsoft reads /. by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How log have you had it? I stated this one back in mid December.

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  6. Re:It's offical, Microsoft reads /. by Kintanon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Heh, about the same. It was before my christmas break. So... Dec 16th or 17th I think. Probably damn near simultaneous.

    Kintanon

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  7. Re:It's offical, Microsoft reads /. by Znonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Great minds think alike. I just wish sig was long enough to include that goat link.

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