There have been several news reports on Xboxhacker.net of users having success in dumping the keys of the newest un-moddable Liteon DVD drives. The methods posted so far are not for the beginner so do so at your own risk. The method seem crude at the moment, no doubt some easier methods will surface shortly. Remember with that DVD key you can install any flash-able DVD drive to that once un-moddable Xbox 360. Good job to all involved !
-Lift pin 101 and 122 (The MT Chip)
-solder a cable to pin 100, pin 101 and one to 3,3V
-use a 2-way switch which either connects 101 to 3,3V or to 100
-put the switch into the position so that it connects 100 to 101
-power drive
-start Dosflash, it will recognise the SPI with Status x72
-if you read it out now, it will just give you a .bin full of FFFFFFFF, but thats OK, this is how we tricked the Flash Controller to think the SPI is empty
-put the switch in the other position (so that 101 is connected to 3,3V)
-now read the flash
Originally posted by guessswho: honestly, this is not good for the scene, which was why it was meant to stay private.
By this information getting released, we basically handed liteon and MS the patch to fix their drives.
Yeah guesswho that's a good call but to be honest M$ will have people surfing the net for stuff like this so whether it came from here, irc, blog or even carrier pigeon they will know just as soon as we do.....
The reason i know is that a couple of years ago i went for an interview for a position within a firm who dealt with big name clients and their sole purpose was to trawl the internet finding illegal sites, content or whatever their clients beef was and report findings back.
I only went to see how hi-tech the operation was (cus i was quiet happy being one of the unclean) and they do not hold back when it comes to equipment or the staff to operate it - basically employing people in the know lol. Even though it was mainly to do with the music industry they said they had remits for anti piracy in the gaming sector too.
But taking nothing away from what you've said it's always best left in the dark for as long as posible to give it a chance of making as little a internet ripple as possible :(
