LouCipherr
06-Oct-2006, 01:52 PM
some interesting news I found:
Now hackers and system owners are reporting of a new drive, sourced from Hitachi with the model number GDR-3120L and v0078FK version tag, that makes it much harder for the console to be hacked.
Owners on the forums of the infamous Xbox hacking site 'Xbox-Scene' are noting various changes and problems:
*Black hard glue/resin has been added covering all the chip pins and the controller pins
*Removing the flash chip to externally be read will destroy the drive due to the new black resin
*Wiring in a patching-on-the-fly mod would be very hard, again due to the resin
*The firmware dump program used for all the other drives, 'memdump', no longer works, so a totally new program re-write is needed to dump the firmware for inspection/hacking
*Chip type has been changed to a 39VF020, so new flashing (previously 'flashsec') program needed
*External debug triggering into 'ModeB' has been removed which is used for re-writing the firmware
Originally, it seems these drives were appearing in Australian territories, but others have spotted the same drive model and version in the UK - so expect them worldwide very soon.
Looks like Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet... lets see what action the Internet community takes on this one.
I know someone, somewhere will find a way around this, but it's interesting news to say the least. M$ fighting back, but i'm sure fighting a losing battle. ;)
LC
Now hackers and system owners are reporting of a new drive, sourced from Hitachi with the model number GDR-3120L and v0078FK version tag, that makes it much harder for the console to be hacked.
Owners on the forums of the infamous Xbox hacking site 'Xbox-Scene' are noting various changes and problems:
*Black hard glue/resin has been added covering all the chip pins and the controller pins
*Removing the flash chip to externally be read will destroy the drive due to the new black resin
*Wiring in a patching-on-the-fly mod would be very hard, again due to the resin
*The firmware dump program used for all the other drives, 'memdump', no longer works, so a totally new program re-write is needed to dump the firmware for inspection/hacking
*Chip type has been changed to a 39VF020, so new flashing (previously 'flashsec') program needed
*External debug triggering into 'ModeB' has been removed which is used for re-writing the firmware
Originally, it seems these drives were appearing in Australian territories, but others have spotted the same drive model and version in the UK - so expect them worldwide very soon.
Looks like Microsoft has thrown down the gauntlet... lets see what action the Internet community takes on this one.
I know someone, somewhere will find a way around this, but it's interesting news to say the least. M$ fighting back, but i'm sure fighting a losing battle. ;)
LC