Font exploits.

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Hi all
I have been looking into some of the newer exploitsthat are available on=20
the xbox softmodding scene, to work out what parts are open and=20
distributable. As you all may know, the Ndure exploit is the most recent=20
and stable of the font exploits. The fonts themselves are actually from=20
the UEEE package, which is freely available, as the font sources are=20
included. However, as you also might know, this exploit only works with=20
files from the 4920 dashboard, which are included in many of the various=20
softmod installers that are available in the wild.

The UEEE package also includes a Windows executable, which takes files=20
=66rom a 5960 dashboard, and modifies them to be like those from a 4920=20
dashboard, which is exploitable. Note that this only patches files in=20
the xodash directory, and then allows the user to use xonlinedash.xbe as=20
xboxdash.xbe in the root directory of the C partition.

After reading about all of this, I am now wondering whether it would be=20
legal to make a similar patch for Linux, and be distributable? If not, I=20
would be interested in some ideas as to why the windows patch is legally=20
distributable, whereas a Linux patch isn't.

Thoughts welcome.
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Luke Yelavich
GPG key: 0xD06320CE=20
	 (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt)
Email & MSN: [email protected]
ICQ: 18444344
Jabber: [email protected]

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