First off, this group of "xbox security researchers" is annonymous and so is their so called method for getting to linux to run on the xbox. For all we know, they could be threatining Microsoft with the 007/Mechassualt save game exploit, and no where in the article does it deny this (www.xbox-scene.com failed to note this, and assumes that it is a "new" exploit").
I've been following the scene at xbox-scene.com and and xboxhacker.net for some time now, and the most recent developments in the past month have been over getting a COPIED XBOX Live enabled game (MS's version of battle.net for the xbox) to run from a hard drive, without a modchip. The current protection scheme MS has used for xbox live detects if you have a mod chip running and bans you if you try to log onto live. With the recent developments of the 007/Mechassualt exploit, people are just now considering that it maybe possible to run a copied version of a game through the 007 exploit(without a mod chip), and therefore circumvent the current xbox live/mod chip protection, which only checks if you have a mod chip running.
With in the past couple weeks, few people have made claims to running copied games on live, but little or no evidence has been presented yet.
My question is, why would you think that the 007 exploit is not what this group is trying to blackmail MS with? It's taken the community this long too barely develop on the 007 exploit, which is the only known method for getting unsigned xbe files(xbe are like the exe's of an xbox) to run on an unmodded xbox.
From the view of one that has followed the xbox modding/hacking scene for some time, i find it hard to believe that these "xbox security researcher's" methods are no different then clearly known methods that have been developing in the scene for some time now. The hint of desperation on asking microsoft to write a signed xbe to run linux just makes me believe that this is some sad attempt to bluff and blackmail MS, which you probably will end up in prison for.
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First off, this group of "xbox security researchers" is annonymous and so is their so called method for getting to linux to run on the xbox. For all we know, they could be threatining Microsoft with the 007/Mechassualt save game exploit, and no where in the article does it deny this (www.xbox-scene.com failed to note this, and assumes that it is a "new" exploit"). I've been following the scene at xbox-scene.com and and xboxhacker.net for some time now, and the most recent developments in the past month have been over getting a COPIED XBOX Live enabled game (MS's version of battle.net for the xbox) to run from a hard drive, without a modchip. The current protection scheme MS has used for xbox live detects if you have a mod chip running and bans you if you try to log onto live. With the recent developments of the 007/Mechassualt exploit, people are just now considering that it maybe possible to run a copied version of a game through the 007 exploit(without a mod chip), and therefore circumvent the current xbox live/mod chip protection, which only checks if you have a mod chip running. With in the past couple weeks, few people have made claims to running copied games on live, but little or no evidence has been presented yet. My question is, why would you think that the 007 exploit is not what this group is trying to blackmail MS with? It's taken the community this long too barely develop on the 007 exploit, which is the only known method for getting unsigned xbe files(xbe are like the exe's of an xbox) to run on an unmodded xbox. From the view of one that has followed the xbox modding/hacking scene for some time, i find it hard to believe that these "xbox security researcher's" methods are no different then clearly known methods that have been developing in the scene for some time now. The hint of desperation on asking microsoft to write a signed xbe to run linux just makes me believe that this is some sad attempt to bluff and blackmail MS, which you probably will end up in prison for.