QUOTE(scuba156 @ Feb 9 2008, 07:37 AM)

not %100 percent true as the chip still has power running through it. a hardware modification is always easier to detect than software
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about, do you???
I am an electrical engineer have spent ~10 years as a hobbiest in the mod business, with most of my expertise in the sat business. I designed hardware mods for satellite receivers when the software modifications were detected. Some of the chips I invented are still in operation today, while 'soft mods' or 'soft locks' as they are called were defeated years ago.
No one method is 'always' easier to detect than another method.. it is wholly dependent upon the platform you are trying to mod and what security measures that device has incorporated.
Anybody who listens to this donkey IS a donkey . . .
I for one am researching using a hard wired mod chip and not a soft-modded or flashed drive - look at all the 'soft' modded 360's that are now banned off XBOX live... you CAN'T turn 'off' the soft mod when you go LIVE... you CAN turn 'off' the hard wired mod when you go live by installing a damn dip switch...
The only thing you did point out that is right is that no one should believe this 100% undetectable BS that the NME chip producers are claiming... do yourself a favor - hard mod or soft mod, don't go on-line with backups - and if you have the option of having a dip switch to turn on or off the hard mod - use it! Don't trust the automatic features. Or use the dip switch in addition to any auto features...
This post has been edited by odingalt: Apr 13 2008, 09:50 PM