XBox Hack Unveiled

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Your gaming soap opera for the holiday. The group that was threatening to release a hack for the Xbox unless Microsoft released a signed Linux boot loader has followed through with their threat and released a public proof of concept. The published hack does not allow for the use of pirated games but the revealing of the exploit allegedly makes it fairly trivial for an experienced programmer to modify the hack for naughty uses.

Group representatives reject claims they are encouraging piracy and accuse the software company of failing to protect its game developers' intellectual property. A signed boot loader won't allow the console to run pirated games, whereas the exploit they have developed will. Free-X say piracy is not something they wish to encourage.

If this turns out to be legit which more than a few people believe it is, this is pretty darn significant.

Steve Gibson is the cofounder of Shacknews.com. Originally known as sCary's Quakeholio back in 1996, Steve is now President of Gearbox Publishing after selling Shacknews to GameFly in 2009.

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    July 4, 2003 8:12 AM

    It pretty much seems to be the real deal. Most insane

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