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MIT Grad Student Says Hacks Into Xbox Security System
Calum:
Read article here:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=581&ncid=738&e=3&u=/nm/20020603/tc_nm/tech_xbox_dc_3
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MIT Grad Student Says Hacks Into Xbox Security System
Mon Jun 3, 7:22 PM ET
By Ben Berkowitz
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (news - web sites) said he has found a way to circumvent the security system for Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox (news - web sites) video game console, opening the way for hackers to use it to run competing software, according to documents released over the weekend.
The MIT computer expert, who posted his report on his university Web site, also questioned the security behind Microsoft's soon-to-launch online service, Xbox Live, saying hackers could exploit a flaw in the system to identify individual players from their game machines.
Andrew Huang, who recently completed a PhD thesis on supercomputer architecture, wrote a memo May 26 describing his efforts to build hardware that would read the Xbox's internal security system. A link to the 15-page report was posted this weekend at technology news and discussion Web site Slashdot.org (http://www.slashdot.org).
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[ June 23, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
lazygamer:
Is Xbox alot more reliable then Windows? It's the console market, woulden't it HAVE TO BE or it wouden't sell?
Oh and it always amazes me how people hack hardware security for various stuff. This guy is only in his early 20's no doubt.
sporkme:
...set the building on fire...
there are very few games worth playing on xbox, i wish someone would write a damned virus for the thing and watch it spread as a plauge across their nifty new network
ps2 is quite nice tho
TheQuirk:
I think someone actually _will_ write a virus for it. But what would be the worse it could do? Destroy the data on the hard drive?
SpeeDFreaK:
That and maybe overclock the heatsink-only cooled processor? :D
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