Hacking the Xbox

Acknowledgments
I would like to thank my dedicated and caring parents for raising me to be
the person that I am today.
I would also like to thank the online hacking community for their advice
and guidance, especially those who must operate anonymously for fear of
persecution by government or retribution by their employer.
Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Joseph Liu of the Boston
College Law School, and Dr. Tom Knight and Prof. Hal Abelson of the
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory all deserve a special thanks for
helping me through the process of publishing my original paper on the
Xbox security system. I never would have published if it weren’t for their
support and counsel.
I am also indebted to the Xbox-Linux team: Michael Steil, Milosch Meriac,
Franz Lehner (thanks for all the detailed technical review!), and the amazing
Andy Green (aka numbnut), for providing so much insight into the
latest Xbox hacks and for providing such interesting material for the book.
Mad props to you guys; keep up the great work. I would also like to thank
Dan Johnson (aka SiliconIce), founder of the XboxHacker.net BBS, for
starting the XboxHacker.net BBS and for his interesting material for the
book, and for his very helpful technical review, advice, and encouragement.
Also, thanks to Gerhard Farfeleder for contributing a photograph of the
Xbox-Linux team.
Thanks to Timothy Chen of Via Technologies, Inc., for contributing the
P4M266 motherboard for the Xbox versus PC comparison and for his fascinating
insight into the PC industry. I would also like to thank Xilinx for their
generous FPGA donations through the Xilinx University Program.
You know who you are, and you know how you helped me: xor, adq, luc,
head, visor, roastbeef, kgasper, xerox, lordvictory, pixel8, El (GCN), tom
from HK, and sween (Scotch!).
More thanks are due for the unlimited edition of this book: Bill Pollock of
No Starch Press deserves a special thanks for boldly stepping up to handle
the printing and distribution of the book; Paul Yoon deserves a hearty
thanks for his numerous typo corrections; and Rael Dornfast and Tim
O’Reilly of O’Reilly & Associates, Inc. also deserve a special thanks for
their helpful advice and encouragement.