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IP: Get this before MSFT does... (XBOX cracking @ MIT)


From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 06:18:28 +0900


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From: "Joseph C. Pistritto" <jcp () jcphome com>
Date: Wed, 05 Jun 2002 10:32:55 -0700
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Get this before MSFT does... (XBOX cracking @ MIT)

This guy was quite clever.  He sniffed the bus between the northbridge and
southbridge on the XBOX motherboard to discover the secret boot sector &
code that prevents anyone from using an XBOX (a pretty reasonable general
purpose computer actually), to run Linux or whatever.

His paper is at:
http://web.mit.edu/bunnie/www/proj/anatak/AIM-2002-008.pdf

But MSFT is pressuring him to take it down, so if you want to read how he
did it, do it soon...
   Best regards,
        -jcp-


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