Endless Paradigm

Quote:Yesterday I had a very long interesting conversation with a recently laid off Xbox 360 hardware/software tester who had some very interesting things to say to me.

1st. Interesting Thing:
There is a super secret kill-switch remote suicide self-destruct command that if Microsoft really wanted to they can remotely trigger and tell an Xbox 360 to fry itself and die. This was intended to be a last resort option if a fight against Xbox Live cheaters or major league professional game piracy ever got big. To their knowledge it has only been done in test situation in the lab but if they wanted to they could have the regular system security sweeps over Xbox Live activate a kill command when it found a compromised hacked Xbox 360 system. It works by having the Xbox overload a fuse and "pop" the fuse. The Xbox 360 will then crash and then will get an "Red Ring of Death Core Digital" error when the boot-up test comes back with a major component hardware failure. This is not the same as bricking or crashing a system since this will actually do physical damage to the motherboard.

Source: 8Bit Joystick

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Seriously this is too much..... it's ridiculous!

Anyway ever since I switched over to full WiFi my 360 isn't connected anymore to the net since I don't have a 360 WLAN device... no connection, no killswitch :D  

But I doubt M$ would actually use this since they would be overloaded with lawsuits...

Actually, this is a pretty neat trick.

now if only the psp had one of them

feinicks Wrote:Actually, this is a pretty neat trick.

Microsoft are showing their care for the penguins (and every other antarctic life form).

John_N Wrote:now if only the psp had one of them

Lol, good thing I've never connect my PSP online, no reason to anyway.
Not like it has one anyway, but sony might get ideas.
Mass PSP suicide!

Quote:1st. Interesting Thing:
There is a super secret kill-switch remote suicide self-destruct command

Well, I guess it ain't really super secret.

Ah this reminds me of the mass iPod suicide that I think happened on new years day once.
Mass 360 suicide!

old....

die hard 4! :p

lolz

Eh, send it in for warranty afterwards.

Wait isn't's it really bad that this info was leaked b.c. now a hacker could have the power to kill 360s. Just look how people blacklist people on socom.