RE: [Full-Disclosure] Computer Sabotage by Microsoft

From: Rainer Gerhards (rgerhards_at_hq.adiscon.com)
Date: 09/11/03

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    To: "Stefan Esser" <s.esser@e-matters.de>
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 22:17:30 +0200

    > > I can understand you frustration of no linux & cracked
    > games anymore,
    > > but "written permission"... Well, well...
    >
    > You misunderstand me completely beside the fact that you
    > accuse me of creating copies of games. I am the person who
    > cracked the xbox open via the font hack and I am not
    > frustrated at all, because I can revert the illegal changes
    > of MS to MY hardware anytime. It is just that MS has no
    > fucking right to autoupdate my box. No matter if I am a LIVE
    > customer or not. They can terminate my license and pay me my
    > money back if the update is really needed, which it is not.

    My apologies in this case, but your post really sounded like being from
    a different person with some different mind behind him...

    But - honestly - do you really think Microsoft has designed to box in
    the way you intend to use it? Didn't you then take it as a challenge to
    do something with it that it was not really designed for?

    > > As you said "it *finally* happened" ;) If you purchase that
    > blackbox
    > > design, you get what you pay for. Microsoft never said it did these
    > > things that you try to do. While there are good points to
    > blame them,
    > > I think this time it is not. It is simply doing what it was
    > supposed
    > > to...
    >
    > There is NOT a single word in the whole EULA and
    > documentation of the XBOX that it will not execute nonsigned
    > software. I found a way to work around this defect. Microsoft
    > destroyed that way, they killed one of the features (again...
    > nowhere in the docu is written that this is NOT one of the
    > features) So I want my money back. I payed for a black box
    > with specific features the font hack was one of the features.
    > If they kill this feature, they kill my property and have to
    > pay for it.

    Honestly, I still can't follow you on this route. I wouldn't purchase
    the XBOX first place because MS intention with it is well-known. If you
    repair these "defects" and make it even more succcessful (because of
    this) in the marketplace - is that really good? Wouldn't it be better to
    make it an economic failure so that vendors see this is the wrong
    approach (as the music industry now slowly learns)?

    Rainer

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