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Technical Analysis of XBox Save Game Hack
DJPenguin writes "There is an excellent article at the XBox Linux Project that describes exactly how the XBox savegame hack works. It details how the author went to great lengths to hide exactly what was going on. It turns out the exploit code is hidden within an image of Tux himself!" An enlightening read, to say the least.
Karma whore what does that have to do with anything. All i know is that when xbox becomes 5 years old, Im putting linux on mine.
-- "Why would you quote your self?" -Me.
From the looks of this article, they could probably make an entire course at a univeristy devoted to modding the xbox.
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continue praying... thank you holy tux, you defeated evil xbox with nothing more than a blink of your image. if possible reveal thy self in thy full glory and microsoft will treamble in your pressence.
Why are you guys constantly trying to work against the hard-working software publishers at Microsoft?
Come on, guys - you know it's not right. Don't copy that floppy!
Don't Copy That Floppy
...when you can skim that article and not need to look anything up.
Beep beep.
After reading /. for a year or two, I sort of deduced that the whole philosophy behind linux was to be cool.
You were 80% angel, 10% demon. The rest was hard to explain. - Over The Rhine
"Math in a song is good."-Linford
Its like a receipt, but a deceipt is proof that you didn't purchase something.
There are plenty of graphical calculators for Linux.. personally, I use python like the parent or for very simple integer calculations, bc or dc.
I second that. Why else would it have a power animal from the Antarctica? Also, it did originate in Finland where it's pretty bloody cold during most of the year.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
From my parent's basement, I stab at thee!
Robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.
Nice reference!
That's it. Hand in your geek card and membership kit.
Don't publish no durn code with buffer overruns. 8)
Even Palladium won't protect you if you have one of those, providing the vulnerability occurs after the application has authenticated to the hardware. Unless you do something like challenge the app periodically to prove it has an intact copy of the secret key. Does Palladium do that? I don't know. Anti-stack crashing kernels combined with a crypto enabled platform could help too. But the whole game is complex as hell. And it has some of the best minds on the planet working on both sides, so the whole thing is an arms race. I'm nowhere near brilliant enough to predict what attacks those clever folks will mount on such a platform, or to predict their chances of success.
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there" - Will Rogers
when you say "You know your a geek..."
Personally, I would regard group sex with three ton lizards as a bad thing but, hey, if it turns you on, it's your funeral.
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