Xbox 360 Firmware Hack !

Here is a note from The Specialist over at xboxhacker.net - Well done from Xecuter ![QUOTE]Months of hard work have come to an end. The 360 FW security details were posted a few days ago already, so why not make it official It's been done.Respect to all the people on this board who made it possible with their brilliant contributions:Anita999, Geremia, Nayr, Bluecop, Interestedhacker, MacDennis, Phantasm, Marvin, Tiros, SpenzerX, Team Modfreakz, Fuzzylogic, Takires, loser, jasper, SMO, Groepaz, Zobyone, Jumba, Amadeus, Tser, DjHuevo, oz_paulb, DaveX, darkfly, evestu, Robinsod, Dark_Neo, Gael360, Seventhson, probutus.

And no, the team decided not to release a hacked FW. The security details are proof itself. The team advocates hacking, not piracy.[/QUOTE]What is this?It's a modified firmware of the Xbox 360 DVD-ROM drive.As you (should) know, all Xbox 360 executables (XEX files) are signed by Microsoft (with a private key only MS has). This means that if you try to change anything to the XEX file, the signature will be wrong and the file will not boot.Now ... to protect from booting an exact 1:1 copy of a game from a DVD-+R, microsoft gave each XEX file a 'mediaflag'. This mediaflag tells the Xbox 360 from which media (cd-r, dvd-r, dvd+r, dvd-rw, hdd, dvdxbox, dvdxbox360, ...). Changing this mediaflag in XEX is not an option as it'll break the signature (see above), so ... what's done in this firmware hack is 'break' the detection of the disc.
(Pretty much) all the information you need is in these threads.
http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php?topic=455.0
http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php?topic=329.0
http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php?topic=359.0
http://www.xboxhacker.net/forums/index.php?topic=258.0
From what we can tell so far is that the game image will have to be patched too - We can smell a new feature for Qwix 2
The scene can expect a hack for all drives very soon (It's currently only Hitachi) - you can be assured that it will be released although I don't think modchips will be any kind of business as its a pure piracy mod - no homebrew at all.News-Source:xboxhacker.netDownload Firmware: illegal and not released Download Video:here[youtube],here[rapidshare.de], here[xbox-scene]