Xbox 360 DVD Firmware HACKED
Written by SiliconIce
Saturday, 18 March 2006
TheSpecialist posts on our forums:
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:
Anita999, Geremia, Nayr, Bluecop, Interestedhacker, MacDennis, Phantasm, Marvin, Tiros, SpenzerX, Team Modfreakz, Fuzzylogic, Takires, loser, jasper, SMO, Groepaz, Zobyone, Jumba, Amadeus, Tser, DjHuevo, oz_paulb, DaveX, darkfly, evestu, Robinsod, Dark_Neo, Gael360, Seventhson, probutus.
Just for fun, here's a little video:
http://rapidshare.de/files/15810304/360hack.mpg.html. And no, the team decided not to release a hacked FW. The security details are proof itself.
The team advocates hacking, not piracy.Congratulations to everyone who has been working hard on this project here in the forums and elsewhere. Nice job! I am glad that XboxHacker.Net has been able to serve a place in this community once again.
XBH does not advocate piracy and we hope that these advances will assist us on the way towards our end goal: custom software for the Xbox 360.A little more about the hack: it's a firmware hack that circumvents some disc security mechanisms. Executables must still be signed; the hack does not allow code that hasn't been signed by Microsoft to run, so no custom software or Linux yet. The door has now been cracked open though.