XBOX 360 Hacked


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An anonym at the german 23c3 Hacker-Congress hacked a XBOX 360 live in front of the audience without any word. There should be some pictures and a live video stream at http://debian.tu-bs.de/mirror/ccc/23C3-mit...tning4-t4s4.wmv and small youtube video at

Got this from digg and hopefully this is true, can't wait for XBMC360 :)

I dunno if hacking it is a good idea really, its just going to mean people cheating in games. XNA is supposed to be where Media Center is developed.

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I downloaded the video and it stutters it's way through, with it been a feed is it supposed to be like that?

VLC is the only player to me that seems to play fine. But that even crashes :(.

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To me, it just looks like he's playing a movie burned to DVD.

If it's not, why does it load the UbiSoft logo (like at the start of GRAW/R6/Splinter Cell), then King Kong, then show the "coming soon" logo, all without changing the disc? As far as I can see, the machine doesn't have the hard drive.

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So it's a fake then eh? Bummer.

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To me, it just looks like he's playing a movie burned to DVD.

If it's not, why does it load the UbiSoft logo (like at the start of GRAW/R6/Splinter Cell), then King Kong, then show the "coming soon" logo, all without changing the disc? As far as I can see, the machine doesn't have the hard drive.

If you watch the video theres a small circuit board poking out the bottom of the system before he turns it round and plugs it up, the graphics shaders in King Kong are easily hackable/changable and are unchecked by the 360 hypervisor since the signed game code has already been approved for loading so its safe to assume that hes written some buffer overflow exploit which shows the bouncing hello world logo.

Whatever he uses to "hack" it is based on the circuitboard so i dont see why not having a HDD is proof that its fake.

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If you watch the video theres a small circuit board poking out the bottom of the system before he turns it round and plugs it up, the graphics shaders in King Kong are easily hackable/changable and are unchecked by the 360 hypervisor since the signed game code has already been approved for loading so its safe to assume that hes written some buffer overflow exploit which shows the bouncing hello world logo.

Whatever he uses to "hack" it is based on the circuitboard so i dont see why not having a HDD is proof that its fake.

Exactly. He's probably hacked it. Now I just hope something more comes out of this other than a bouncing logo.

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Well that vid proved nothing at all, and the DVD drive was hacked a long time ago, and you can play homebrews and backup on it anways, as far as linux is concerend, provided its a live CD version, you shouldnt have much of a problem, but as of right now, Im gonna go with "Fake"

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The only reason i believe there to be an ounce of truth in this is that the Hacker is apparently part of a very renouned hacking team.

It's probably going to turn out fake, and as already stated this could just be a hacked shader..

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Well that vid proved nothing at all, and the DVD drive was hacked a long time ago, and you can play homebrews and backup on it anways, as far as linux is concerend, provided its a live CD version, you shouldnt have much of a problem, but as of right now, Im gonna go with "Fake"

Wrong. The Firmware hack for the DVD drive is only for playing backed up DVD-9's of "Signed" code. Meaning you have to use an identical copy of an original Xbox360 disc. You can't use any homebrew or "modified" software.

You need to read up about the hack before you assume things :p.

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the problem i have with that.. is the screen goes blank for 40+ seconds, until the "xbox360 and linux coming soon", someone could of swapped the cables.. it doesn't seem very real... but i guess i'd have to see it to believe it.

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Wrong. The Firmware hack for the DVD drive is only for playing backed up DVD-9's of "Signed" code. Meaning you have to use an identical copy of an original Xbox360 disc. You can't use any homebrew or "modified" software.

You need to read up about the hack before you assume things :p.

Yes but thats only the signed game executable, the King Kong game he uses has vector shaders that arent protected or signed, there have already been "mods" to change the way the shaders work and look in game.

If hes found a way to trigger a buffer overflow so he can run unsigned code then this might be good news.

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the problem i have with that.. is the screen goes blank for 40+ seconds, until the "xbox360 and linux coming soon", someone could of swapped the cables.. it doesn't seem very real... but i guess i'd have to see it to believe it.

You have to remember, this was a conference. Tons of people in the audience, and most likely those individuals aside from the "Cloaked fellow" were making sure he didn't pull anything funny.

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I have my doubts as well, but it is plausible. Apparently in another video, he shouts out an IRC channel at the end of the "hack". Check it out at xbox-scene.

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If hes found a way to trigger a buffer overflow so he can run unsigned code then this might be good news.

Great, we're all going to have to buy King Kong :p

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