p2p news / p2pnet: It seems the first post on this was somewhat less than accurate. My usually reliable source was “pretty incorrect,” as he said in a second email.

I’m sorry about that. Hopefully this item, posted by Mike on Xbox 360, will straighten things out.
Jon

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Kiosk Disc – The Opening Hackers Are Looking For?
By Mike – Xbox 360

Team PI has been hard at work looking for ways to get around the security on the Xbox 360. With all that gaming power, you can rest assured that the Xbox 360 will become a focal point for hacking efforts. Well, it seems, according to Team PI that Microsoft may have provided the first step towards cracking the Xbox 360’s security by way of the Kiosk disc. Here is what Team PI had to say:

*** YES YOU CAN BURN THIS ISO AND PLAY IT IN YOUR XBOX-360 ***

Microsoft left us with this blanket statement:

Xbox 360 retail kiosks have started arriving at retailers. Due to the nature of the distribution process, not all kiosks are hitting simultaneously, but are continuing to pop up in retailers across the country in the coming weeks.

The kiosks are designed for a retail environment and feature game samples, game trailers and product information. Team Pi leaves you with this Pillow statement:

It seems Microsoft was in such a hurry to get this stuff out that they forgot to set the media protection on this disc. This leaves hackers with the posibility to hack around with this disc that load from a normal DVDR5 backup! – Team Pi also notes that the all datafiles on this disc isn’t signed in any way, and will allow for extensive modification for producing exploits to further our efford to hack this box!

Playable (hackable) games on this disc: Call of Duty 2, Hexic, Kameo, King Kong. Also includes lots of game and accessory demos in video format.

Nothing ripped, just foreign videos were downsampled to fit onto a normal DVDR5!

YES you can run this! Burn the iso, put it into your xbox and be very amazed… Next, think of the posibilities of hacking this little demo disc that we might start running code on the retail xbox 360’s !

So the second task is done. We hope this encourages all hackers, coders and crackers out there to take up the challenge. Enjoy!

Special note to the Clear kids: Yes, we are old and lazy, and no, we are not going to do some scene war against you. Life is too short for that, and our dicks are allready large enough

Keep up the hard work!

Pi Putting the 360′ Spin on the Xbox

UPDATE: There has apparently been a video of someone hotswapping a disc on an Xbox 360 making the rounds. We do not vouch for wether or not this video is real, but at the very least you can see what Team PI is talking about. Check out the video [here].

Thanks to Shrgnatlas for the heads up!

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