TVG is reporting that a group of hackers have managed to get past the Xbox 360’s security features to run a copy of Project Gotham Racing 3.
The group of hackers known as XboxHacker released video footage of their burned copy run.
Progress on hacking the Xbox 360 was first reported back in the middle of December 2005 just a fortnight after it was launched in North America, when a group calling themselves Team PI Coder announced that they'd managed to extract raw data from thirteen games for the system. Today's news however takes things one step further, although a budding homebrew community on the Xbox 360 is still a way off. Furthermore the hack is still subject to the console's region coding so playing Region 1 DVD imports on R2 Xbox 360s is also unavailable.
XboxHacker confirmed that whilst it was in the business of hacking, it wasn't condoning software piracy, and refused to released the firmware of the hack itself, choosing instead to release the video showing that it worked.
In the time before the Xbox 360 was released, Microsoft announced that it aimed to make the next-gen console the most secure yet thanks to its custom hardware design. Making the statement in September 2005, Chris Satchell from the Xbox Advanced Technology Group said that whilst the console was being made secure on a 'silicon level' he acknowledged that attempts at bypassing the security was something that would be inevitable: "There are going to be levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before...I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security."
TVG
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