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| Prologue-README.1ST | |
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| The Video Game Console Market | |
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| About Hackers and Hacking | |
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| The Politics of Hacking | |
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| The People Behind the Hacks | |
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| Voiding the Warranty | |
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| Tools of the Trade | |
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| Tools to Open Things Up | |
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| Tools to Attach and Remove Components | |
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| Tools to Test and Diagnose | |
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| Tools for Design | |
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| Deconstructing the Xbox | |
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| Safety First | |
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| Remove Case Screws | |
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| Remove the Top Cover | |
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| Move the Disk Drives | |
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| Remove the Disk Drives (Optional) | |
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| Reassembling the Xbox | |
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| Thinking Inside the Box | |
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| Reading a Circuit Board | |
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| Circuit Board Basics | |
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| Components | |
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| Test Points | |
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| Xbox Architecture | |
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| High-Level Organization | |
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| Functional Details | |
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| CPU | |
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| Northbridges and Southbridges | |
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| RAM | |
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| ROM | |
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| Odds and Ends | |
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| Pattern Matching | |
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| Comparison: Xbox Versus the PC | |
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| Contrast: Xbox Versus the Gamecube | |
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| Installing a Blue LED | |
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| What You'll Need | |
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| Removing the Xbox Front Panel | |
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| Removing the Front Panel Circuit Board | |
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| Installing the Blue LED | |
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| Reassembling the Front Panel | |
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| Debugging | |
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| Building a USB Adapter | |
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| Starting Materials | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Implementation | |
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| Replacing a Broken Power Supply | |
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| Diagnosing a Broken Power Supply | |
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| Replacing the Power Supply | |
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| Strategy | |
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| Procedure | |
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| Building the Xbox Power Cable | |
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| Installing the Replacement Power Supply | |
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| Operating with the Replacement Power Supply | |
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| Debugging Tips | |
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| The Best Xbox Game: Security Hacking | |
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| First Encounters with a Paranoid Design | |
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| To Snarf a ROM | |
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| An Encounter with Microsoft | |
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| Analyzing the ROM Contents | |
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| A Brief Primer on Security | |
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| Who Needs Security, Anyways? | |
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| A Brief Primer on Cryptography | |
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| Classes of Cryptographic Algorithms | |
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| SHA-1 Hash | |
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| TEA | |
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| RC-4 | |
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| RSA | |
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| The Rest of the Picture | |
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| Reverse Engineering Xbox Security | |
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| Extracting Secrets from Hardware | |
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| Eavesdropping a High Speed Bus | |
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| Tapping the Bus on a Budget | |
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| Building the Data Logger | |
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| Determining the Bus Order and Polarity | |
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| Making Sense of the Captured Data | |
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| Sneaking in the Back Door | |
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| Back Doors and Security Holes | |
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| Visor Jam Table Attacks | |
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| MIST Premature Unmap Attack | |
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| Microsoft Retaliates | |
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| Reverse Engineering v1.1 Security | |
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| The Threat of Back Doors | |
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| More Hardware Projects | |
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| The LPC Interface | |
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| LPC Interface on the Xbox | |
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| Using the LPC Interface | |
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| The Other 64 MB of SDRAM | |
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| Xbox VGA | |
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| Mass Storage Replacement | |
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| Developing Software for the Xbox | |
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| Xbox-Linux | |
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| Installing Xbox-Linux | |
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| "Project B" | |
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| OpenXDK | |
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| Caveat Hacker | |
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| Caveat Hacker: A Primer on Intellectual Property | |
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| Classical Intellectual Property Law: An Overview | |
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| Copyright | |
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| Patent | |
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| Trade Secrets | |
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| The Constitutional Copyright Bargain | |
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| The Traditional View of Reverse Engineering | |
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| Trade Secrecy and "Improper Means" | |
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| Copyright Law and the Problem of Intermediate Copying | |
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| Patent Law | |
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| New Challenges for Reverse Engineers | |
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| The Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Problem of Unauthorized Access | |
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| Unauthorized Access | |
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| Circumvention Technologies | |
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| Navigating the DMCA's Exemptions | |
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| 1201(f): reverse-engineering for interoperability | |
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| 1201(g): encryption research | |
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| 1201(j): security research | |
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| End-User License Agreements and Contractual Prohibitions on Reverse-Engineering | |
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| Trade Secrets and the Economic Espionage Act | |
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| The Responsible Hacker: Ignorance Is No Defense | |
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| Civil and Criminal Offenses and Penalties | |
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| Reverse Engineering as "The Freedom to Tinker" and Other Legal Issues | |
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| Onward! | |
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| The Hacking Community | |
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| Hacking Fora | |
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| Making a Contribution | |
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| Trusted Computing | |
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| Taking a Step Back | |
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| Palladium Versus TCPA | |
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| Hacking the Trusted PC | |
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| Looking Forward | |
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| Concluding Thoughts | |
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| Where to Get Your Hacking Gear | |
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| Vendors for Hobbyists | |
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| Prepared Equipment Order Forms | |
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| Soldering Techniques | |
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| Introduction to Soldering | |
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| Use Flux | |
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| Starter Tips | |
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| Surface Mount Soldering | |
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| Technique for Simple Components | |
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| Technique for Complex Components | |
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| Technique for Removing Components | |
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| Getting into PCB Layout | |
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| Philosophy and Design Flow | |
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| Refining Your Idea | |
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| Schematic Capture | |
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| Board Layout | |
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| General Placement and Routing Guidelines | |
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| Leave Space for Via Fanouts on Surface Mount Devices | |
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| Decoupling Capacitors Fit Nicely Under SMD Pads | |
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| Know Your Special Traces | |
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| Circuit Boards Make Fine Heatsinks | |
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| Establish Preferred Routing Directions for Each Layer | |
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| Stack a Board with Orthogonal Layers | |
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| On Two-Layer Boards, Use Fingers to Bus Power | |
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| Hints on Using an Auto-Router | |
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| CAD Tools | |
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| Board Fabrication Companies | |
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| Sierra Proto Express | |
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| Data Circuit Systems | |
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| Advanced Circuits | |
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| Alberta Printed Circuits | |
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| Starter Projects | |
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| Getting Started with FPGAs | |
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| What Is an FPGA? | |
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| Designing for an FPGA | |
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| Project Ideas | |
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| Where to Buy | |
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| Debugging: Hints and Tips | |
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| Don't Panic! | |
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| Understand the System | |
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| Observe Symptoms | |
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| Common Bugs | |
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| Recovering from a Lifted Trace or Pad | |
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| Xbox Hardware Reference | |
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| Power Supply Pinout | |
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| Video Connector Pinout | |
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| USB Connector Pinout | |
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| Ethernet Connector Pinout | |
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| ATA Connector Pinout | |
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| DVD-ROM Power Connector | |
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| LPC Connector | |
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| Fan Connector | |
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| Front Panel Connector | |
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| Index | |