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The Hidden Boot Code of the Xbox
Device666 writes "In order to lock out both copied games as well as homebrew software, including the GNU/Linux operating system, Microsoft built a chain of trust on the Xbox reaching from the hardware to the execution of game code, in order to avoid the infiltration of code that has not been authorized by Microsoft. The link between hardware and software in this chain of trust is the hidden "MCPX" boot ROM. The principles, the implementations and the security vulnerabilities of this 512 bytes ROM will be discussed in this wikipedia article entitled
How to fit three bugs in 512 bytes of security code."
The title of a seminar held on the Redmond, WA campus.
the slashdotrix adjusting itself... Pay no attention to that cat.
The principles, the implementations and the security vulnerabilities of this 512 bytes ROM will be discussed in this wikipedia article entitled How to fit three bugs in 512 bytes of security code.
So it seems someone doesn't know the difference between a page with wiki technology and Wikipedia.
512b of space. NExT ON SLASHDOT!
Wheel of Time: Book by Book and Sumview (summary review) Bigdady92 style: http://bigdady92.blogspot.com/
Ahh yes but I wouldn't expect editing to occur on Slashdot
The thing everyone needs to remember is that slashdot is akin to Norman Bates, a lot of them are confused, a lot of them crossdress and are very often psychotic.
So, the next time you see a dupe.. remember, be quiet.. or you could be murdered by a crossdressing psychopath.
Is that over or under Microsoft's par?
Maybe the chain of Anti-Trust?
Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
Easy. Just put one bug in every 170.666666666666667 bytes and you will be done.
At least Microsoft provides the same level of security to it own hardware as its does yours. You can't accuse Microsoft of playing favorites.
I don't practice what I preach because I'm not the kind of person that I'm preaching to.
Posted by CmdrTaco on Friday August 12, @10:32AM
from the stuff-to-read dept.
Oh the irony...
http://stoploudness.org/
That's why I always rub bacon on the shrink-wrap and let my dog open it. Then he's bound by the EULA, not me.
Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
You know the irony? Browsing at +3 threshold right now shows two posts in a row:
2 1&cid=13303204
2 1&cid=13303209
1. http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1588
2. http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1588
I love how they have the EXACT same sentence of "not every site running mediawki is wikipedia".
No, he got nailed to a cross because he said what he wanted to say. Ironic you're telling someone not to say something, isn't it?
I suspect that they spend most of their time finding all the non-duplicate, insightful articles that have been submitted so that they can reject them.
Neeeeeeoooooobody expects the Slashdot editors! Our chief weapons are laziness, laziness and corporate shilling, our *two* weapons are laziness and corporate shilling...
oh, I give up.
If I guy a house is it immoral to add on a room or to tile the floor?
Dude, I don't know what "guying a house" is, but I'm quite sure it should be immoral.
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