Ep 45: XBox Underground (Part 1)

Darknet Diaries

Jack Rhysider

True Crime, Technology

4.9 • 8.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2019

⏱️ 83 minutes

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This is the story about the XBox hacking scene and how a group of guys pushed the hacking a little too far. This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Sponsors This episode was sponsored by Nord VPN. Visit https://nordvpn.com/darknet and use promo code "DARKNET". This episode was sponsored by Thinkst Canary. Their canaries attract malicious actors in your network and then send you an alert if someone tries to access them. Great early warning system for knowing when someone is snooping around where they shouldn't be. Check them out at https://canary.tools. This episode was sponsored by IT Pro TV. Get 65 hours of free training by visiting ITPro.tv/darknet. Use promot code "DARKNET25". Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I kind of want to start the show, which is you talking about how, um, you know, the original
0:05.0	Xbox got hacked.
0:06.8	Uh-huh.
0:07.8	Sure.
0:08.8	This is Bunny.
0:09.8	Or at least Bunny is his hacker handle.
0:11.8	Back in 2003, he published a book called Hacking the Xbox just after graduating from MIT.
0:16.8	Yeah, as MIT is a grad student at the time.
0:19.2	Oh, and just as a random fact here, the term hacker actually emerged from the MIT Tech
0:24.0	Model Railroad Club in the 1960s, and that ethos sort of paved the way for a hacker culture
0:29.2	today, they were hacking model railroad sets to make them do things they weren't intended
0:33.3	to do.
0:34.3	And Bunny fit right in with this hacker culture at MIT.
0:37.6	Basically every, every toy, every game console I had gotten since childhood, I was taken
0:42.8	apart.
0:43.8	And like, you know, if I got tired of playing the game, I would just, you know, change resources
0:49.1	in the game and get the high score or whatever it is.
0:50.9	So it was more fun to sort of like hack the games and it was to play the game itself.
0:54.8	It was the bottom line.
0:56.3	Around this time, the original Xbox came out.
0:58.8	And got a hold of one and found it had high end computing parts in it.
1:02.2	It was when I took it apart, it was very clearly a PC to me on the inside, right?
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