“An Australian company that manufactures and sells a “mod chip” for Microsoft’s Xbox video-game console has released the design for the hacking tool under an open-source license.
Hibana, which makes the DualMod chip and sells it via the AussieChip Web site, began offering a downloadable version of the chip design last week to anyone who agrees to a license that incorporates standard open-source provisions.
Mod chips are gray-market add-ons that, once soldered onto the main circuit board of a video-game console, bypass security systems in the machines. The chips allow hackers to run homemade software and import games on a console, along with enabling playback of illegally copied game discs.” [News.com]