XBox Hack Unveiled
Your gaming soap opera for the holiday. The group that was threatening to release ahack for the Xbox unless Microsoft released a signed Linux boot loader hasfollowed through with their threat and released a public proof of concept. The published hackdoes not allow for the use of pirated games but the revealing of the exploit allegedly makesit 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 ispretty darn significant.
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