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Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering

By Andrew Huang

Book information

Publisher
No Starch Press
Year
2003
ISBN
1593270291, 9781593270292
LCC
QA76.9.A25 H83 2003
Google Books ID
FdPNE6beKcMC
Open Library ID
OL8871395M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
18 MB (18954496 bytes)
Edition
Unlimited Edition
Pages
292\292
Topic
Computers Security
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-07-11 00:50:25

Description

"Hacking the Xbox" is a fascinating book about exactly what it says. If you have no interest in gory details of JTAG probe points, cryptography, so called "trusted computing" and "digital rights management" and the technical issues at stake in trying to implement and/or attack them. . . then this book will bore you to tears. If you *do* have such interests, then you are in for a treat.The book opens with 5 chapters of fairly broad physical overview, walking through the hardware systems in Xbox consoles and some (relatively) simple projects to get your hands dirty with a soldering iron. Then on to some meaty chapters introducing you to the security model of the platform, and the attacks that the author and others developed to ultimately succeed at running arbitrary code on these systems. These chapters provide a fascinating blow-by-blow account of the process of developing the attacks. Then, we wrap up with some practical material regarding how to use these attacks to run, for instance, Xbox-Linux on a hacked machine, and some bigger picture information on the legal environment facing US hackers interested in these matters.xiii, 272 p. : 23 cm.Includes bibliographical references and index.

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