Xbox 360... Compromised!
by Jack Straw
Hey there! Well lookie here... with all the mistakes Microsoft made with
the first Xbox, you'd think they'd have learned... but they used off the
shelf parts once again. And off the shelf DVD drives have... flashable
firmware chips!
The main security has not been cracked so no unsigned code. But you CAN "preview" those $60 games before buying them on DVD+R DL.
I got kinda lucky here. The only hack is for the Toshiba-Samsung drive...
which I happened to have. I threw caution into the wind and decided to
rip open the "unopenable" case. Inside, the DVD drive has a stubby little
SATA cable, and plugs right up to the PC:
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An Xbox 360 |
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Then, you boot to DOS (I had to go to CompUSSR and grab a floppy, luckily
on sale this week!) and you can flash the firmware. I was lucky enough to
have a SATA chipset that actually works - apparently that's the exception
to the rule.
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An Xbox 360 ... inside! |
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For the curious, here's a better shot of the 360 internals, and the little
SATA cable:
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An Xbox 360 ... more internals! |
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Now we're poppin. I even took a video for you fuckers. Here.
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Captures from the video |
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Gamefly, here I come!
About the author: Jack Straw will hack your shit up!
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