xbox360 hacked

[emdkay]

Sorry if it's a repost, but I didn't see a previous topic:

http://www.pimppanther.com/media/1142848758/Xbox_360_Gets_Hacked_

[Harry Potter]

Micro$oft is once again

[mr.Curmudgeon]

Hmmmm...they could still be playing video through another input source in the back of the TV, using a second fully assembled "unhacked" Xbox360.

This video isn't definitive proof of much of anything. Is there an article on how they supposedly did it? Are they releasing a chip, etc?


mrC

[Harry Potter]

4 months sounds about right for this sort of thing.

Even if it is a fake, it'll be soon when a hack is available.

[GGKoul]

Hmm.. looks fishy. 

[pointdablame]

http://www.xboxic.com/news/501    This is a great article with one of the people who performed this hack.

This is not the great news that some people say it is.  The hacker group that did this has stated they will NOT release teh hack, so we will have to wait until someone correctly duplicates the hack.  It is very possible to brick your 360 with this, and it is also very easy for MS to fix this hack... its only a firmware upgrade for the DVD drive... its very possible to "fix" this if MS wanted to take the risk (that risk being bricking some 360s while attempting an upgrade).

Team executer is supposedly trying to release this hack, so it may prove useful, but I'm not real excited about it quite yet.  This won't lead to a modchip, can easily be fixed, and means you're likely giving up your right to use Xbox Live once MS implements a check for the firmware.

It's great news... but I don't think it'll really spark the 360 scene until a more secure, and more disable-able solution is found.  Most people will still want to use Live, and this won't be the way to do that.

[jbox]

Micro$oft is once again

On the contrary Mister Potter!   Microsoft has several goals with the Xbox line - it is part of the computer in every room strategy, part of the "MS everywhere" strategy, and it is also part of their anti-user strategy too. Some part of them *wants* people to make "wik3d h4cz" like this, because even though it hurts them in the short term, it increases their knowledge of how better to lock out users from their own PC in the long term (which is of course their ultimate goal).   

[Harry Potter]

Micro$oft is once again

On the contrary Mister Potter!   Microsoft has several goals with the Xbox line - it is part of the computer in every room strategy, part of the "MS everywhere" strategy, and it is also part of their anti-user strategy too. Some part of them *wants* people to make "wik3d h4cz" like this, because even though it hurts them in the short term, it increases their knowledge of how better to lock out users from their own PC in the long term (which is of course their ultimate goal).   

You work for them or something?
Microsoft's goals are irrelevant. Their unhackable stuff got hacked. End of story.

[AtomSmasher]

You work for them or something?
Microsoft's goals are irrelevant. Their unhackable stuff got hacked. End of story.

Nothing is unhackable, even microsoft knows this.

[pointdablame]

On the contrary Mister Potter!   Microsoft has several goals with the Xbox line - it is part of the computer in every room strategy, part of the "MS everywhere" strategy, and it is also part of their anti-user strategy too. Some part of them *wants* people to make "wik3d h4cz" like this, because even though it hurts them in the short term, it increases their knowledge of how better to lock out users from their own PC in the long term (which is of course their ultimate goal).   

How did you find time to post this while making all those tin foil hats?

Yeah yeah.. MS is evil, and they want to lock people from their PCs... and stab babies... can't forget that one.


 

[Hoagie_one]

I heard that Bill Gates has to kill a puppy just to get an erection.

[Harry Potter]

You work for them or something?
Microsoft's goals are irrelevant. Their unhackable stuff got hacked. End of story.

Nothing is unhackable, even microsoft knows this.

I sometimes wonder why they bother.

Sure it stimulates the pirate economy but.... I forgot my point.

BACON!

[WaRpEd]

I smell Bacon!!
bacon bacon bacon
Oh I cant read

[allroy1975]

Nothing is unhackable, even microsoft knows this.

I used to beleive this.  now I pay for my DirecTV.  am I missing out?

allroy

PS...I mean.I've ALWAYS paid for my DirecTV   

[jbox]

I guess I'm surprised by how astonishingly naive some of you are being. Of course the Xbox isn't "unhackable", if you re-read my original post I *never* made that claim. Gates has been on record time and time again that his ultimate goal is to have basically every single CPU in the world running a Microsoft product regardless of whether it is running a super-computer or a toaster. And MS have been pushing *hard* (at least in Australia) to convert as many of their actual license sales into service contracts, which means MS gets paid the same amount of money, but after three years you don't even own a single license for anything.

MS is *very good* at what it does. Which is business, not software per se. The future they want to see is streaming PCs in every home where you pay a subscription fee *each* and every year regardless of whether or not you want any of the new features available. Their move into the Xbox market has always had a secondary object of giving them a better understanding of the hardware aspects of DRM then at the moment where they only know about software.

I like the fact that the same post somehow got me labelled as both an MS fanboy and a tinfoil M$ is evil.     This isn't random speculation, it has been stated time and time again that their goal is MS *everywhere*, and the only way to do that is to eventually build hardware that is so hard to crack that most people wont bother (especially with the illegality issues).

[Harry Potter]

They can keep trying shove their crap down people's throats for all anyone cares. That's why we have linux and OSX.

I'll just keep stealing their stuff and laugh when all the security gizmos they've been developing for 3 years get hacked in 3 days. 

[AtomSmasher]

Nothing is unhackable, even microsoft knows this.

I used to beleive this.  now I pay for my DirecTV.  am I missing out?

allroy

PS...I mean.I've ALWAYS paid for my DirecTV   

I'm not sure if it was Direct TV, but I remember hearing of a satellite tv company that had a bunch of illegal "hacked" tv recievers.  Unfortunately they figured out how to trace the hacked signal and arrested or gave huge fines to a lot of people.  So the moral is, you can hack Direct TV, but you will most likely get caught.

On a similar note, I'm getting Showtime and Cinemax free from direct tv, but thats because when I cancelled the stations they only made my non-tivo reciever to not get the channels and didn't change my tivo reciever.