360 TSOP Big news

[humidfreak]

Im not up on this what do you thin

Xbox360... you can't TSOP us now!

Source: softlite via xbox360fanboy

We're already having a very nerdy, hands-on day here so we might as well continue. The original Xbox contained a readable/writable TSOP chip which means that in order to "mod" the system you didn't even need to install a modchip. Just flash BIOS code directly to the TSOP. What's the point? You don't care about the original Xbox? Here it is then:

The Xbox 360 has a TSOP chip as well.

Smarter people than I will determine if this can be exploited. The Soft Life writes, "Does the existence of a TSOP on the Xbox360's motherboard mean the same LDT security attack will be available? Probably not. But it seems to at least be an potential opening.

 

[lukek]

well looks like the Write Protect and Write Enabled pins are set to 0 which means u just have to enable them in order to be able to access them or they might be possibly blown like the Microdrives that ship with Mp3 players which makes it a bitch to reflash the firmware so u can use them in I/O mode.

 

[Catalyst]

well looks like the Write Protect and Write Enabled pins are set to 0 which means u just have to enable them in order to be able to access them or they might be possibly blown like the Microdrives that ship with Mp3 players which makes it a bitch to reflash the firmware so u can use them in I/O mode.

damn straight!


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