XBOX 360 Firmware Hack Confirmed

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For those that are still skeptical

Well now it is pretty much official for everyone that either didn't want to believe or those that needed to see it to believe it. A video of a the Xbox 360 firmware hack announced a few days ago surfaced earlier today with the following message (emphasis ours):

TheSpecialist:
(Months of hard work have come to an end. The 360 FW security details were posted a few days ago already, so why not make it Official It's been done.

Respect to all the people on this board who made it possible with their brilliant contributions:
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Just for fun, here's a little video: rapidshare.de. And no, the team decided not to release a hacked FW. The security details are proof itself. The team advocates hacking, not piracy.)

TheSpecialist and his team was able modify the DVD player firmware. Once the firmware was modified the hackers removed or modified the software that detects the type of media used in the player from the disc's XEX file. Normally, if the drive reads the type of media as a "dvd+r" or "dvd-r," the media will not boot -- only media with the "dvdxbox" or "dvdxbox360" are supposed to boot. A user on the Maxconsole forums (Arakon) close to the source has stated that this hack does not circumvent region protection and only 1:1 copies of games of the same region will work.

The team insists they will not release the hacked firmware as not to advocate piracy. TheSpecialist has a bit of a professional reputation in the Xbox scene, which also gives him some credibility to the legitimacy of this hack.

DAILYTECH

 

[Blane]

Game Developers Conference Europe 2005:

Andre Vrignaud, part of the Xbox Platform Strategy Group, delivered an interesting lecture designed to explain to game developers exactly how many of the new features of Microsoft's Xbox 360 next-generation console would interface with their games.

Conclusion

When ending the talk, Vrignaud also took a couple of questions from the audience on esoteric topics, revealing that, though the Xbox 360 has a virtual keyboard, it does also support USB keyboards. More interestingly, a question from an audience member on the security for Xbox 360 in terms of 'mod chips' and other devices that modify for imported/illegal content prompted a reply that Microsoft took 2 and a half years on security this time round, whereas the Xbox only had around a year. Vrignaud prompted: "Never say never", but he thinks it's going to be a long time before the Xbox 360 gets modded.

lolololololololol.

 

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Conclusion

Microsoft took 2 and a half years on security this time round, whereas the Xbox only had around a year. Vrignaud prompted: "Never say never", but he thinks it's going to be a long time before the Xbox 360 gets modded.

lolololololololol.

LIKE WE DID'NT KNOW ALREADY!! that if data can be read then data can be written or used

they will never stop them!

where one fails another SUCCEEDS

not ENTIRELY convinced by the clip linked to above by the way the camera pans away from the console and onto the screen and not showing both at at the same time in the shot...... as yet but hey im a SCEPTIC

and no doubt it can and has been done