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X-Box Hackers Trying to Blackmail Microsoft?
wumarkus420 writes "According to this article from CNet News, an anonymous X-Box security research team is threatening Microsoft: either release a digitally-signed official Linux bootloader or face the release of a new exploit that supposedly works without a modchip. While I doubt Microsoft 'negotiates with terrorists,' this should still turn out to be a good I-told-you-so if the exploit is verified." Sounds like a good way to end up in jail.
"Reveal your trade secrets Gates, or we will set in motion a chain of events that will conclude with our incarcaration in a vile butt-slamming federal prison! We're warning you!"
They hate the competition.
I remember trying this back in the days of Windows 95. I said, "Microsoft, you either release Windows 95 for free, or I will give away a secret code, 111-1111111, which will render your 'key-code' security invalid and allow everyone to pirate your OS."
They didn't listen, so I released it.
Who do they think they are, Cobra?
I mean, gee... This sounds like some corny Saturday morning cartoon plot...
"reveal your secret or face my wrath!"
Now all we need is for them to declare that they have an army of fanatical zealots devoted to the cause of bringing their plan to frutation, i.e., Linux on the X-box...
oh, wait...
hmm...
This is my sig. Its pathetic.
They have about as much pull as pee wee herman.
:-)
now would that be inside or outside of a theatre?
sorry,couldn't resist
if your tinfoil is in a roll and not already on your head then you are comprimised.
There was even a /. story about it:
here
Big threat...the info is already out there.
"I demand MS give me a copy of WinXP signed by BILL GATES HIMSELF or I will REVEAL THAT THE SECRET DOS COMMAND TO LIST ALL FILES!"
-Ben
This is all an elaborate ploy by Microsoft to get everyone to buy an Xbox. They want you to believe that either A) Linux bootloader will be released, or B) 37337 exploit will be released. Don't fall for it!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I've got to fashion a tinfoil helmet to block the RFID chip the dentist put in my molar.
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Excuse me Sir. We have traditions straddling two millinea AND two centuries here.
Are you proposing that we stomp on the most sacred?
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right, B, A, B, A, select, start! ;)
Snoozer.
no offense to you but.. ;)
only on slashdot would a post suggesting to actually read the article get a +5 insightful
oh snap, he called out your metaphor.
"Maybe the whole thing is a Redmond-sponsored false flag operation to provide Microsoft with an "example" in support its DRM lobbying efforts. "
Maybe you're paid by Microsoft to sound like a conspiracy nut so we'll ignore this possiblity.
I would put these kids in jail first. I would push for terrorist charges. I would try to get one of those sentences where they are not allowed within 15 feet of a computer for like 15 years.
Then (just to piss them off) I would release Linux for the xBox just as they asked.
The icing on my cake? I would charge like $100 for it.
Alas, Bill isn't that entertaining.
He probably has better things to do with his life then screw with these two morons.
SYDNEY--Four teenage boys were found clinging to life today, after being thrown through 98 windows in a normally quiet suburban Sydney.
"We don't know for sure who did it, but this looks like the work of the MSDS--the Microsoft Defenestration Squad," said a Syndey Police Department spokesperson
The boys alledgedly had developed an easy way to circumvent the anti-piracy controls on Microsoft's game console, the X-Box. Reportedly, they tried to blackmail Microsoft with the information to try get a version of the Linux operating system to run on the X-Box. Microsoft never reponded to their blackmail.
The MSDS is wanted in 56 countries for a wide range of crimes. Everything from extortion stemming from unreasonable licensing agreements, to the now familiar chucking-folks-out-the-windows routine used to discourage competitors.
Sydney hospital officials say that the boys are making a good recovery and will be released by the end of the next week.
It works in the movies!
That was my first thought, freenet that baby let all those 15 users know how to mod thier x-box.
Too expensive to make? Buy a damn RacketCube.
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