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MS design switch thwarts Xbox mod chips (Register)

Accordint to the Register, Microsoft has modified the hardware for its Xbox game platform, which will thwart the porting of Linux to the platform. "Microsoft has made some modifications to the internal design of Xbox in the name of security, the most immediate upshot being apparently that existing mod chips won't work with the new design. According to a posting last week on the Xboxhacker BBS (reproduced here, the first of the new designs have been spotted in Australia."
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