XBOX 360 Hacker Interviewed, Firmware Hack Leaks To Public

[iMav]

Early today XBOXIC.com posted an interview with Robinsod, Microsoft's latest problem. Earlier this week we reported that a group of 6 hackers found a vulnerability in Microsoft's newest gaming console, the XBOX 360. This allowed them to boot a copied version of Project Gotham Racing 3.

The man who calls himself Robinsod is part of a group of 6 hackers who have tried to break the copy protection of the XBOX 360. However, according to Robinsod, they are not planning on releasing any specifics on how they went about loading a copied game disc on their consoles for very humble reasons. They did not want to hack the new XBOX to assist in or even encourage any type of piracy but to prove to themselves that they could.

Robinsod also provides some warnings for those who do try to replicate their findings. They will most likely turn their consoles into unusable "bricks" like a sort of "don't try this at home, kids" warning. However, Team Xecuter has planned to release a firmware patching utility for PCs to update the XBOX 360's DVD drive firmware and circumvent the copy protection. There is no word yet on how they are coming along but it should be interesting.

This is not the first time anyone has ever tinkered with the XBOX 360 and succeeded in finding what they shouldn't have been able to. Soon after the gaming system began shipping there was already a way to access the contents of the XBOX 360 hard drive to retreive save games. Soon after that the file system was decoded to allow one to access the structure of a game disc by a coding group that calls themselves "Pi". Though these cracks aren't very useful to the typical gamer they could be starting points to hacking the console and running all sorts of code on it which we have seen with the original XBOX system.

Sony's PlayStation 3 console is set to launch later this year in all major markets. According to recent announcements, Sony will be preloading the Linux OS onto the PS3 which should be very interesting to hackers all around the world. The question will then be "which gaming console will be the most difficult to hack?"

[Charan]

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Xbox 360 H4xx0rz admit their hackjob is useless
After previously boasting about a DVD firmware hack that made it possible to run a backup copy of Project Gotham Racing 3 on a modified Xbox 360, one of the hackers behind the mod has joined Microsoft in calling it "useless". Apparently the mod is useless to the general public due to its complexity (the mod "requires that the flash chip is removed from the drive circuit board and inserted into a special flash programming device") and the fact that it could easily destroy an Xbox 360 in the wrong hands.

However we must agree with one of the other members of the mod team when he said "given the complexity of the software it seems unlikely that there's no [other] way in." Did you know: Microsoft also make a popular operating system called Windows, an OS notorious for its backdoor vulnerabilities.

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Would be better to carry on the discussion in Gamerz Section. Moved