New "Secure" Xbox Cracked In Under A Week

ilsie writes "Numbnut says it all in his post at xboxhacker.net. To quote his post, 'On behalf of the Xbox Linux Team, I am proud to announce that at 10:45BST the 'v1.1' secure version of the Xbox was proven to be running arbitrary BIOS code in a normal 256KByte modchip - with no additional hardware required. In short, in under a week we were able to normalize the new box to enable it to interoperate with Linux properly.'"

If you secure it, they will come...

[LowAmmoWarning]

and crack it.

any chance?

[rizawbone]

could these xbox hackers come over and get my ms office from asking for my cd every time i do a 'find' in explorer?

that would REALLY impress me.

Makes sense

[dcstimm]

Proves that there is nothing microsoft can do to secure the xbox. Oh well, thank god for xbox hackers!

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[zulux]

The good, hard working, people at Microsoft(tm) have worked long and hard to give you a Video-Game systmem that plays the games you want.

Instead of happily purchasing the system and all twelve games, and three extra HandHurt(tm) controllers - you go and make the poor people at Microsoft(tm) cry.

I think it's time you helped a good American(tm) company like Microsoft, instead of promoting the Communist-Finnish Linux.

Please, don't take food out of a fellow American(tm) - buy your Xbox today!

(MS: Please credit MSDN account #2341 for this post)

Microsoft should give up

[Anonymous Coward]

Microsoft would avoid the embarrassment by including a Linux CD with each Xbox.

The Xbox is Microsoft's test of Palladium

[jjh37997]

Don't you get it? The Xbox is Microsoft's test case for Palladium. They try their best to secure the Xbox and wait for the hackers to bust it. They keep on doing this until they find a way to lock it down to the point were nobody can hack it. Then they role out Palladium with all the safe-guards in place and hacker tested. You XBox hackers are just a tool of Microsoft!

Re:You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[forged]

HandHurt(tm) controllers

You mean, one of these [penny-arcade.com] ?????

Let's be fair here folks

[MadFarmAnimalz]

I thought it was uncalled for to put the word "secure" in between quotes like that to emphasise it in a sarcastic manner.

Personally, I'd say one week is a record; the boys in Redmond are getting better at this security stuff.

Slowly.

Next thing you know, it'll take all of 10 days to break in to an IIS box...

Kudos really.

Is that the new Microsoft Security 2.0??

[FreeLinux]

Give Microsoft a chance guys, they're still busy working out the bugs in Licensing 6.0 [microsoft.com]

I'm sure the'll have a 200 meg patch for the X-Box anyday now. They'll call it Security 2.1a

Have you Securified your X-Box today??

Re:If they cant secure an Xbox.

[vinyl1]

Actually, the paddalium is what Bill Gates will shortly be applying to the bottoms of these naughty hackers.

Re:The Xbox is Microsoft's test of Palladium

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah - Microsoft's agents are modding the parent funny.

Re:Microsoft should give up

[mbogosian]

Microsoft would avoid the embarrassment by including a Linux CD with each Xbox.

Yeah, but they'd call it "MS Unix" or "MS OpenSource" something. I had no idea Microsoft invented HTML until I saw the file type for .htm docs in Windows....

Re:Is that the new Microsoft Security 2.0??

[Treeluvinhippy]

it's scary that they sell software to manage the licenses you buy.

Re:The Xbox is Microsoft's test of Palladium

[The Analog Kid]

Seriously now, I don't think they will be able to secure anything when they have people like Steve Ballmer, whose best attempt at stoping Linux is to dance around the stage and scream in a high pitched voice.

Re:EULA changes?

[vsprintf]

You read a EULA from MS. My guess is you're a competent party, as is MS. The EULA sets forth rules, establishing what you both will or won't do. You give them money, they give you rights. You agree to it or not. You are both obliged to follow the terms of the EULA.

Well, only one party is really bound since MS EULAs always give them the right to modify the terms whenever they feel like it.

Re:Some damn idea

[MyHair]

Um, did he just say "imagine a beowulf cluster of these" (albeit with different wording) and get modded to +4 interesting?

Re:You should be ashamed of yourselves.

[JungleBoy]

No. I think he means these [penny-arcade.com]

And the score so far...

[di0s]

Security through obscurity:-2
Determined hackers:+2

Xbox Security - The Movie

[Cheese Cracker]

Subtitle: Cracked in 60 seconds.