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Hacker team gets close to Xbox 360 holy grail

XBox 360 shall soon be ours
By Nick Farrell
Tue Mar 28 2006, 15:12
AFTER a team of hackers admitted that their XBox360 hack was not really practical, another team has said that it is closer to a practical solution.

In hackerland getting a useable 360 hack is a bit like finding a cure for cancer. An outfit called team executer claims to have found a way to managed to write to the DVD drives firmware, without the need to de-solder the chip, flash, and replace it.

The group's hack works by hooking up to your PC drive and flashing it over the S=ATA bus.

True you need a custom connector, because Vole uses a lot of proprietary stuff, but it is a step closer to the XBox360 being wide open, the group claims. µ

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