RE: [OT] Jail for seller of illegal Xbox chips

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

> If they were so concerned about people opening up x-box's and wiring
in
> hardware mods, then why didn't they make it harder to get the guts of
the
> machine.  After assembling the mother board, couldn't they just spray
the
> whole thing with something sticky like wax.  The hackers then wouldn't
be

One very simple reason I'd imagine - cost. They were losing money on the
hardware pretty much from day one, so _any_ additional cost meant a bigger
loss
per unit.....

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Tony