New Xbox Live Security Update Bans Cheaters

Posted by Zonk on Friday October 22, 2004 @09:30AM from the off-with-their-heads! dept.

NiteStar writes "Major Nelson, the Xbox Live Director of Programming, has released a statement stating they have initiated additional security measures on the Xbox Live service. These measures are aimed to block out cheaters who used modifications to gain an unfair advantage over other players, such as faster cars in Project Gotham Racing 2. He also says "Modified consoles will be banned, and information about those banned machines will be tracked to prevent them from connecting to the service again." Thanks also to BlueMoon who wrote in to mention that "The Xbox enjoyed 53% market share among consoles in the UK last week."

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So? by ASkGNet · 2004-10-22 09:40 · Score: 5, Interesting

Certainly, one could follow common sense and don't connect with his modded XBox to Live.

Alternatively, one could modify the Live component to always return Good, regardless of actual status