Mock Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 Some guy won the "challenge".... used a buffer overflow hole to load linux on an un-modded Xbox using the James Bond 007 game save/load option. impressive! Mock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 Yeah I heard about this on TechTV.. Some people have way too much time on their hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 2, 2003 Author Share Posted April 2, 2003 well...in this case...that time was worth $100,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 Is there a website documenting his success? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 2, 2003 Author Share Posted April 2, 2003 http://news.com.com/2100-1043-994794.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasenoke Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 Its very cool that he can do that. It would be SO COOL, if he could run a Mac OS or Knoppics on an X-box. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 3, 2003 Author Share Posted April 3, 2003 Linux is the key....once you get Linux to run, the world opens up. Being able to do it without a mod chip means MS is officially "screwed" now on the fight against mod chips in the long run...someone will figure out how to do what the mod chip does in Linux and so on and etc etc etc...6 months you'll see the effects of this I'm sure. I personally think this is a good thing for the Xbox, but MS has a much different opinion...lol. Playing Combat and Space Invaders on your un-moded Xbox might not be so far away... Mock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbid Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 XBox owners had better pick up Agent Under Fire before it gets pulled off the shelf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 3, 2003 Author Share Posted April 3, 2003 I think there are several games that use that same kind of option besides 007. Mock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 3, 2003 Share Posted April 3, 2003 MS is officially "screwed" now on the fight against mod chips in the long run... I don't know about that... this trick is still rather odd, and it's not something you want to have to do on a regular basis. Can you imagine buying this in the store, and reading what you have to do to get it to run? There's probably more people who are running Linux on modded X-Box's than people doing this trick to them. I don't think MS is in any trouble yet... but once someone finds a trick where you can just stick in a Linux DVD and boot it up without realizing that you're actually bypassing security features, THEN we've won. There's probably some buffer overflows within the X-Box bios that can be exploited... this IS Microsoft after all. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 3, 2003 Author Share Posted April 3, 2003 The point is that the hole has been found... the software uses for this would not be commercial anyway...it's a homebrew thing...emulators and so on. cool thing about the X is it's built in drive...i took mine apart and it had a 20Gig in it...they are supposed to have 8Gigs so I guess they ran low on 8's or just started ordering 20's or whatever...but mine had a 20. Everything and it's brother has been ported to linux, so once you get linux to run you can access the HD and write whatever you want to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariDude Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 And behold he broke the 7th seal and Linux was running on an Xbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 4, 2003 Share Posted April 4, 2003 If only it weren't for the DMCA, we could just work on cracking the encryption... I've heard it's pretty nasty, but the DMCA makes it illegal to even attempt to break it. Anyone remember the Indrema that was vaporware a few years ago? Although it failed miserably, it had Linux on it's side, which was it's main advantage. Imagine a successful system that had this advantage. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munkyxtc Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 MOCK> I right now have an 80 gig HD installed on my X, custom job, but the one I took out of my box when I changed was a 20 I'm not sure what the deal is with that...anyways, I have all my cd's saved to the HD in the xbox now, which is great as I can use it as a jukebox w/ surround sound...now all I need to figure out is how to d/l mp3's to it...that would be sweet Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 9, 2003 Share Posted April 9, 2003 If only it weren't for the DMCA, we could just work on cracking the encryption... I've heard it's pretty nasty, but the DMCA makes it illegal to even attempt to break it. I know, I know, don't get me started. That's got to be one of the stupidest laws ever written in the history of stupid laws, and I know there are some stupid ass laws (I've seen the web pages that list them all, trust me). Next thing you know, it will be illegal to discuss the fact that breaking it is illegal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 9, 2003 Author Share Posted April 9, 2003 everything is illegal. Mock Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 That was an illegal post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 That was an illegal post. And since he's a mod, R would know! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mock Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 Post Nazi's! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasoco Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 What exactly is the point of running Linux on so many devices? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miqorz Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 What exactly is the point of running Linux on so many devices? Well what's the point of collecting video games? Because it's something to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 What exactly is the point of running Linux on so many devices? It's sort of a nerd thing... it's like the geek equivalent of putting ugly spoilers and enormous tail-pipes on a Honda Civic. If you ask one of the guys working on this, he'll probably try to tell you that an X-Box is basically a cheap computer. Aside from a keyboard and mouse, you get a whole computer for a pretty decent price. Of course, since you can't do things like print, it's a rather limited computer. --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 If you ask one of the guys working on this, he'll probably try to tell you that an X-Box is basically a cheap computer. Aside from a keyboard and mouse, you get a whole computer for a pretty decent price. Of course, since you can't do things like print, it's a rather limited computer. --Zero Given enough time, I'm sure somebody could cobble together a cable that plugs into a controller port and leads to a printer, and write some software for Linux that could control it over that connection. Really, nothing's impossible - it just depends on how hell bent you are to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Uhuhu, can anyone say Ethernet port ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ze_ro Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 Anyone still interested in this thread might want to read though this new story on Slashdot, talking about a better way of doing this... as well as a method of flashing your X-Box bios, which is basically do-it-yourself modding. Naturally, none of the links from the article work anymore... --Zero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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