This is somewhat old news ;-)
They have been running LINUX on these systems for awhile.
A student at MIT has a site about tons of cool stuff he has been up to.
Check it out at:
http://www.mit.edu/people/bunnie/

I found this site awhile ago, it's on my "favorites" list.

Best regards,
Steve

Steven Kosmerchock
Radio Frequency Systems
Phoenix,  Arizona  USA
(WORK) www.rfsworld.com

www.geocities.com/researchtriangle/lab/6584

"Great spirits have always encountered violent
oppposition from mediocre minds."--A.Einstein



-----Original Message-----
From: Tal Bejerano - AMC [mailto:kooter@ZAHAV.NET.IL]
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:19 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Xbox security has been broken?


Here is the original (I think) article from MIT :

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/2002/AIM-2002-008.pdf

site is OVERLOADED!!! if someone can get this pdf file send it to me even
it's 20MB. :-)


Regards

Tal Bejerano
AMC - ISRAEL


-----Original Message-----
From: pic microcontroller discussion list
[mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Erik Jacobs
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 10:04 PM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Xbox security has been broken?


> Hi 2 All
> I just read that a student from MIT university has succeeded to brake the
> Xbox machine security system.
> anyone can confirm if it related to the pic that is on the Xbox board?

Here is an article about just that:

http://www.gamers.com/news/1170646

I am not sure whether or not it is related to the PIC micro, however it
appears that the MIT student simply intercepted the signals that were being
transmitted back and forth across the board.  I believe this is probably
very similar to what is done with PS and PS2 modchips -- intercept signals
and modify them in order to play out-of-region and/or backup games.

I'm new to the list... acceptable post? :)

--
http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us!
email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

--
http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us!
email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body

--
http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us!
email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body