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TastyCorn

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« on: February 07, 2004, 12:24:00 PM »
What exactly does XBL look for when it determines if you are using a different BIOS or not?  Does it only check the checksum?  If this is all it checks would it not be possible to force the valid checksum to a hacked BIOS?  I'm just throwing stuff out there.  If anyone does know what it searches for please post it.
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xBaNaNaEv0LuTiOnx

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« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2004, 01:15:00 PM »
i'm sure it has been made clear that none of the teams will even consider "hacking live." it's great the way it is (ie. minimum cheaters, scammers, etc).
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« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2004, 08:50:00 PM »
As far as checksum, it might be CRC32, or they may be reading a hash value like MD5 or SHA-1. If it is SHA-1, forget about cracking it.

Trying to force a checksum or hash on a file period is damn near improbable. I'm not sure about CRC32 or MD5, but SHA-1 is, if I'm not mistaken, birthday attack-proof (or at least resistant)...that kills off a faster way of finding two known values that produce the same hash. All I will say is that it most likely won't happen in at least our lifetime.

This post has been edited by EvilWays: Feb 8 2004, 04:53 AM
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TastyCorn

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« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2004, 12:23:00 AM »
Thanks guys, that's all I needed to know.  It's kind of a bummer.  I don't feel like paying fifty bucks for XBL and THEN another 70 bucks for a damn game.  I mean, I don't mean to sound like a theif (which I guess I am) but I've downloaded too many games that retail for 60 or 70 bucks that are NOT worth it and to pay that much just to play with a bunch of idiot 14 year olds is just not worth 130 bucks of my student loans.  I see where you guys don't want XBL hacked because of cheaters, but admit it, we're getting brown-eyed with the cost of games here and the occasional occurence of cheaters would be well worth being able to play our backups.   I don't want to cheat, I just want to see if I can kick some ass in Project Gotham 2, legitamately.
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« Reply #4 on: February 08, 2004, 04:36:00 AM »
You know there are tunneling networks that let you play backups, so why not use them?  As far as downloading your games, I hope I'm never in a game with you while you're playing with stolen property.
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« Reply #5 on: February 14, 2004, 05:43:00 PM »
QUOTE (Xeero @ Feb 8 2004, 02:29 PM)
As far as downloading your games, I hope I'm never in a game with you while you're playing with stolen property.

Copying and stealing are two different things.
Both can be illegal, though.
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