{"id":967,"date":"2003-07-10T23:02:54","date_gmt":"2003-07-11T03:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/07\/10\/x-box-hack\/"},"modified":"2003-07-10T23:02:54","modified_gmt":"2003-07-11T03:02:54","slug":"x-box-hack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/10\/x-box-hack\/","title":{"rendered":"X-Box Hack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a237'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td width=\"65\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/xhack.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"127\"><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"455\" valign=\"middle\">\n<div align=\"left\">\n      Microsoft has been selling the Xbox, a gaming box which includes a hard<br \/>\n        drive, at $179 as a loss leader, making their profit on game sales.&nbsp; Now<br \/>\n        enterprising hackers have discovered how to convert the Xbox into a PC<br \/>\n        running the Linux OS. Exploding in popularity in Asia, these super-cheap<br \/>\n        computers can run thousands of free downloadable programs and games, and don&#8217;t even<br \/>\n        need Windows to run.&nbsp;Microsoft is not pleased&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/07\/10\/technology\/circuits\/10book.html\">from the NY Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div align=\"left\">      <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has been selling the Xbox, a gaming box which includes a hard drive, at $179 as a loss leader, making their profit on game sales.&nbsp; Now enterprising hackers have discovered how to convert the Xbox into a PC running &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/07\/10\/x-box-hack\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}