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.

Comments

Re:Morons

[GMontag]

Their fate has already been shown in the documentry Face/Off. Did you really think that was a production oil rig?

What's an 'X-box'?

[fuchikoma]

It's 'Xbox'.

No dash, no hyphen, no underscore, no nothing.

It's not an acronym. No 'XBOX'.

Big X. Little box.

Xbox.

2 billion dollars in advertising and production and MS can't get people to stop adding extra characters.

Re:wow...

[notque]

I knew linux users could get obsessive, but I didn't realize it had reached this level...

Have you ever actually read slashdot?

Re:Morons

[k1llt1me]

Who needs spell checkers when we have tons of anal slashdot posters like you...?

Re:Haha rape is so funny

[hbog]

If you haven't watched Office Space, you are the one with some issues.

Super Villains in training

[Neil Watson]

Amateurs, get yourselves a real plan

Maybe just another reason..

[msimm]

..to get away from calling it Linux. Richard made some pretty good points in a recent editorial at ZDNet. GNU/Linux aside, maybe its time to stop identifying with the kernel so much and start naming the specific system. As in:
Mandrake
Red Hat
Debian
Gentoo
FreeBSD
GNU/Linux system
Open Source movement
GPL

At least that way Red Hat could be Red Hat and these hackers could just be open source nuts or GNU/Linux terrorists. Or maybe not.

Re:Morons

[Breakfast Pants]

Morons on slashdot who can't use poor grammar?

Sound like Highschool

[sTalking_Goat]

The trick is, kick somebody's ass on the first day, or become somebody's bitch. Sounds like my High School. I went to and all -male school in the Southern Caribbean, five years, you start at 11 graduate at 16 and can optionally do two more years for some extra certifications.

I got harrassed for the first couple of weeks till I took a chair to the back of some guys head. Then I figured out how the system works. If people think you're a pyscho they pretty much leave you alone. So I praticed staring at people without moving my eyes, whenever anyone got in my face.

Probably wouldn't work in prison though, I fight like a girl.

Completley off-topic but my Karma can't get any worse as it is.

Re:Pipedot. Geek news without the slant.

[Zork the Almighty]

Or more appropriately, "Offtopic".