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Telemachus

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« on: October 27, 2003, 02:44:00 PM »
I have had my LIVE account set up with two security measures...

a. Live account in on Mem card, and won't show up unless it is in there.

b. Pass Code is set on that live account.

Questions:

1) This does NOT stop games like Splinter Cell from phoning home, does it?

2) When the dash loads up, it shows me the friends, etc options.  It is not until I click on those that it asks for the passcode.  It is not until I input the passcode that this thing connects, right?  Or if someone accessed that with the chip on, would that send info?

3) Which is the easiest way to have the led turn red or orange while the mod chip is on, and stay green while it is off.

I think security measures to keep someone on your box from accidentally logging into live would be a great pinned topic.

Thanks!
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mrRobinson

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« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2003, 04:27:00 PM »
I have had my LIVE account set up with two security measures...
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a. Live account in on Mem card, and won't show up unless it is in there.

b. Pass Code is set on that live account.

Questions:

1) This does NOT stop games like Splinter Cell from phoning home, does it?
No it doesn't stop them from phoning home... but you won't be banned if it does phone home it isn't logging into your account.  They may try to access live in their auto way but unless you sign in yourself you won't be banned with your setup.

2) When the dash loads up, it shows me the friends, etc options. It is not until I click on those that it asks for the passcode. It is not until I input the passcode that this thing connects, right? Or if someone accessed that with the chip on, would that send info?
That is correct, it only sends info after the passcode is entered so if someone tried but didn't know your passcode, even with chip on, you wouldn't be banned.

3) Which is the easiest way to have the led turn red or orange while the mod chip is on, and stay green while it is off.
Can't you mod a bios with xbtool to do that?  haven't loaded that up in a while so i forget.
I think security measures to keep someone on your box from accidentally logging into live would be a great pinned topic.
The most failsafe way i've seen so far is the two people who purportedly have not only been able to switch thier modchip on/off but during the same switch have switched between their real eeprom and one loaded with fake crap.  This would cause you to never be banned from live no matter what you did with your modchip on.

Thanks!
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« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2003, 04:29:00 PM »
Splinter Cell doesn't connect to Live and ban you (if modchip is on) if you DO NOT select the "Download Content" option.

Best way to stay safe from getting banned from Live:
1) When not using Live, unplug network cable.
2) Delete the Live oriented XBEs in a game's root.
3) Turn off auto sign-in in MS dash.

I just do number 3, and I am just cautious when playing Live-enabled games.
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Telemachus

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« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2003, 10:20:00 PM »
XB-Tool does indeed change the led color.  That is yet another protection I have now added.  If someone were to just turn the XBOX  on with a LIVE game in the drive, then it would be possible to go online with the retail game, but the mod on, and get jacked.

Now, when the LED is glowing RED, I (and hopefully others) know not to try to go live.

Thanks again.

P.S. Is Crimson Skies as good as everyone says?
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shanafan

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« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2003, 10:25:00 PM »
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Yes, Crimson Skies is good.
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shanafan

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« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2003, 10:38:00 PM »
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But, I do not have others using my XBox..
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« Reply #6 on: October 28, 2003, 06:11:00 PM »
Also DO NOT rely 100% on using XBTOOL to change the LED's to glow another color or flash. I just did a couple of systems and had set them to glow RED when booting to the primary bank of the mod. (Chameleon v1.0 on a v1.0 box)  All was working fine till I noticed that when launched a couple of different apps and emulators the LED's would start glowing GREEN. If I did an IGR and dumped back to the EvoX dash the LED's returned to RED.   Just thought I'd share that with the rest.  


On a side note.  I have seen a lot of incredible apps, utilities, games and emus get released for the xbox. What I would like to see next, I'd do it myself but I have 0 coding capability, is a  util like X Select or X Pass that could be used to hide the MS DASH and LIVE settings from the system when EvoX is running.  OR even better. Since we now have apps embeded in the bios.  How about embeding it in the bios.  Make it so that if the bios is loaded it would ignore or diss allow anything LIVE from running.  That way you would never accidentally hit LIVE while the mod is on and you would have to dump to the TSOP and MS DASH to go LIVE.  That's just my thoughts though.
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« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2003, 07:44:00 PM »
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All was working fine till I noticed that when launched a couple of different apps and emulators the LED's would start glowing GREEN..

That's a really good point. I remember, when my LED was red for a short time, I would load Ghost Recon and it would turn back to green  dry.gif
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« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2003, 08:01:00 PM »
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What I would like to see next, I'd do it myself but I have 0 coding capability, is a util like X Select or X Pass that could be used to hide the MS DASH and LIVE settings from the system when EvoX is running. OR even better. Since we now have apps embeded in the bios. How about embeding it in the bios. Make it so that if the bios is loaded it would ignore or diss allow anything LIVE from running. That way you would never accidentally hit LIVE while the mod is on and you would have to dump to the TSOP and MS DASH to go LIVE. That's just my thoughts though.



I just had a minor brainstorm regarding this.  We know what ports and probably IP that Live uses.  What about a bios embeded app that would block connections to that IP and those ports?  Just a thought.  Would it work? If so. Anyone up to this task?
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« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2003, 08:02:00 PM »
QUOTE (Heykrop @ Oct 29 2003, 12:01 AM)
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What I would like to see next, I'd do it myself but I have 0 coding capability, is a util like X Select or X Pass that could be used to hide the MS DASH and LIVE settings from the system when EvoX is running. OR even better. Since we now have apps embeded in the bios. How about embeding it in the bios. Make it so that if the bios is loaded it would ignore or diss allow anything LIVE from running. That way you would never accidentally hit LIVE while the mod is on and you would have to dump to the TSOP and MS DASH to go LIVE. That's just my thoughts though.



I just had a minor brainstorm regarding this.  We know what ports and probably IP that Live uses.  What about a bios embeded app that would block connections to that IP and those ports?  Just a thought.  Would it work? If so. Anyone up to this task?

Already been discussed  wink.gif

MS's website lists them, as well as here at Xbox-Scene in some old topic.
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