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."

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LOL

[NDPTAL85]

Hahahahahah. Intellectual property disrespecting morons.

Of course they do.

[Old Ike]

Microsoft employees, like everyone else, need a good laugh.

Pretend you work for Microsoft. What better way to kick back and relax than to look at one of your chief "adversaries" as they duplicate stories, encourage at least as much FUD as you do, engage in hilarious hypocrisy ("MPAA IS BAD! Did you see LOTR? OMG WTF IT WAS GRATE!"), and think some unweildy kludgy, inconsistent OS written by cave trolls for cave trolls with mind-numbing MAN pages and HOWTOs will be used by everyone's grandma tomorrow?

No wonder half slashdot's visitors use IE - they're all MS employees surfing from their desks as MS having a grand old laugh.

Re:Of course they do.

[Henry V .009]

And now we know that some of the Microsoft employees moderate...

Parent shouldn't be at -1! Mod back up.

legitiment?

[realmolo]

It's "legitimate", you fucking tools. Maybe The DCers should look into the new Distributed Spelling Client from The English Department. There's also a cool one from The Grammar Project called They're There Their. Abbreviated T3.