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Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com)Posted Apr 1, 2003 7:29 UTC (Tue) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)Parent article: Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com) Let's get this straight - in order to run linux on a current version Xbox, I have to buy not only an Xbox but also a game? Or do we now have a disassembly of the "hole" in the game which allows us to boot straight into linux? How long before M$ modify the hardware again so the technique is ineffective? Obviously I congratulate whoever developed this attack (one in the eye for "trusted computing"!) , but given that "open" second-user mid-range PIII PC system boxes are now available for little more than pocket money, is the concept of using Xbox as a low-cost linux system still economically viable?
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Hacker cracks Xbox challenge (News.com) Posted Apr 1, 2003 13:37 UTC (Tue) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link] The Xbox itself hasn't been cracked AFACIT, it's a buffer overrun injust one game. The Xbox still requires software which has been *signed* by Microsoft, and so far they haven't signed any free-software bootloaders. So the fact that they *have* signed a proprietary bootloader (in the form of a game with an exploitable buffer-overrun) is the next best thing. In buying an Xbox you're already paying (and paying Gates!) for
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