Hacking the Xbox

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Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering
Profile: Lee Tien
Lee Tien is a Senior Staff Attorney with the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, specializing in free speech law, including intersections
with intellectual property law and privacy law.
Before joining EFF, Lee was a sole practitioner specializing in
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. Mr. Tien has
published articles on children’s sexuality and information
technology, anonymity, surveillance, and the First Amendment
status of publishing computer software. Lee received
his undergraduate degree in psychology from Stanford
University, where he was very active in journalism at the
Stanford Daily. After working as a news reporter at the
Tacoma News Tribune for a year, Lee went to law school at
Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley. Lee also did
graduate work in the Program in Jurisprudence and Social
Policy at UC-Berkeley. 1
The Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) provided me legal
counsel during the period when I was trying to publish my
paper on the Xbox security system. The following paragraphs
introduce what the EFF does, and who they are.
Imagine a world where technology can empower us all to
share knowledge, ideas, thoughts, humor, music, words and
art with friends, strangers and future generations.
That world is here and now, made possible with the electronic
network — the Internet — with the power to connect
us all. And future developments in technology will enable
us to access information and communicate with others in
even more powerful ways.
But governments and corporate interests worldwide are
trying to prevent us from communicating freely through new
technologies, just as when those in positions of power controlled
the production and distribution of — or even burned
— books they did not want people to read in the Middle
Ages. But only by fighting for our rights to speak freely whatever
the medium — whether books, telephones, or computers
— can we protect and enhance the human condition.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) was created to
defend our rights to think, speak, and share our ideas,
thoughts, and needs using new technologies, such as the
Internet and the World Wide Web. EFF is the first to identify
threats to our basic rights online and to advocate on behalf
of free expression in the digital age.
Based in San Francisco, EFF is a donor-supported membership
organization working to protect our fundamental rights
regardless of technology; to educate the press, policymakers
and the general public about civil liberties issues related to
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