I've never purchased any smartxx product, but this BS has confirmed that I won't in the future. When the 1.6 was discovered (and cracked within 72 hours), all information was given out almost immediately.
Xecuter chip is too complicated??? That's funnier than that they refuse to give out any information on this supposed 1.7 besides a couple of checksums that anybody mashing on their keyboard can recreate.
Back when I was a n00b to all this (feb. 2004), the first chip i installed was an Xecuter 2.3b pro on a 1.4, it was one of the easiest chips to install at the time IMO. Ive installed many more since then, and if a modchip developer can't do it, that's just lame.
The xecuter comment is so lame in fact, that I don't think its true. It's more like "yeah, the xecuter chip works too, but we don't want to say that, so lets just come up with some stupid excuse for not testing it"
Damn you smartxx. You have lost all my respect