[tai]

http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot?m=4346

The firmware of the Xbox 360 DVD drive has been hacked, allowing users to boot backups of games on the new Microsoft console. A group of hackers on the xboxhacker.net forum managed to trick the DVD firmware into reporting a recordable disc as an original Xbox 360 disc. This means that it will not allow booting of unsigned homebrew code (like Linux), as the signature check is not bypassed. This hack will just trick the Xbox 360 into thinking you inserted an original Xbox 360 disc, so it'll only boot unedited executables. A video has been released, the hack has not been released to the public (because it will be mainly used for piracy), but all the research of the last few months is publicly viewable.

downloads of said video here: http://rapidshare.de/files/15810304/360hack.mpg.html

and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyZQ4k7Bi-8

so um, whadda you think of this. apparantly this firmware hack was done with the original XBOX too, but it was never publicly released and only worked on certian DVD-ROM drives.

[Lynk Former]

Well it was stupid of Microsoft to think that it would take a long time for people to get pass all of the security measures introduced into the Xbox360. But this isn't that big in terms of news, I mean everything can be hacked and pretty soon there'll be an easier way to exploit the Xbox360 in the future lol.

The PSP is a hackers dream, despite the efforts of Sony to stop people through forced firmware updates, people are still doing crazy things to their PSPs. The PS3 will also be vunerable simply because of all of the things Sony wants the PS3 to be able to do.