just a thought

[madkillers]

if weve found a way to downgrade to a specific firmware whats stopping us from modifying that firmware unless theres and integrity cheak that ms put in there that i havent read about beacuse it should be possible we have the technology

[Dragod]

The problem is getting the device to recognize hacked firmware, and also we'd have to know how to program the firmware to actually work.

[Jesus]

Pretty much it checks if its legit firmware, editing the firmware is very complicated supposedly my friend said he did it but i do not believe him. I wish it was as easy as the psp.

[Pocker09]

we just need to find a way to "resign" the firmware...and all that means is changing the crc or what ever the zune checks the firmware for. i did it on my mrobe 500i so we could run linux and change the skin

[Marshillboy]

Unless you work for microsoft, it's pretty much impossible to try to resign the firmware using their encryption algorithm. Like not possible in other words.

[Nurta]

but hey, if you have a supercomputer and want to go through up to 2^80 iterations, be my guest! Call me when you're 69 and finished

[Marshillboy]

2^80 = 1208925819614629174706176
839,000,000,000,000 calculations per second (by the fastest supercomputer in the world by NEC) http://www.smh.com.au/news/technolog...941294254.html

1208925819614629174706176/839,000,000,000,000 = 1440912777 seconds

1440912777 seconds = 16,677 days or 45.7 years

SX-9 rents for $US26,000 a month

556 months x $26,000 = $14,453,400

Unless you have 46 years of your life and over 14 million dollars just burning a hole in your pocket, call me when reality checks in.

[Jesus]

Pocker i own the SX-9 send me the money.

[madkillers]

well correct if im wronge again but if u install a new hard drive in the zune dosent it automatically install a specific firmware wich would mean that there would have to be a way to access that part of the device that holds maybeing a 10mb file im thinking that some way well find out how to hack it theres gotta be a way and what happend to mys vindl did she just quit beacuse ppl didnt belive in her video or was she just a fake

[LedZepp]

Everytime the zune powers up it checks for the signature, the signature check is built into the hardware not the software.

[Ben999_]

Originally Posted by Marshillboy

2^80 = 1208925819614629174706176
839,000,000,000,000 calculations per second (by the fastest supercomputer in the world by NEC)

1208925819614629174706176/839,000,000,000,000 = 1440912777 seconds

1440912777 seconds = 16,677 days or 45.7 years

SX-9 rents for ,000 a month

556 months x $26,000 = $14,453,400

Unless you have 46 years of your life and over 14 million dollars just burning a hole in your pocket, call me when reality checks in.

That made me laugh, although there is always the chance of getting lucky and cracking it before going through all of the calculations.

[Mr.Kingsley]

Originally Posted by Ben999_

That made me laugh, although there is always the chance of getting lucky and cracking it before going through all of the calculations.

my guess is the password is 42.. SOOO simple!!