Entrevista a Bunnie, el hacker del MIT

Back when I was a student, I would get up around 1 or 2 PM, open my laptop and check email in bed; think about what would be interesting to do that day, and then get out of bed and do it. Sometimes I'd have a group meeting or have to go into lab for work. Around 4PM or so I'd get my "lunch"...work some more, and then I'll catch my friends coming home from school and socialize a little bit in the evening. I'll get a beer and burger with some buddies around 8 or 9PM, and the real work starts after 10 at night...I'll usually hack until 6 or 7 AM--whenever the sun rises--and hit the sack

I hardly play any games on my video game consoles-- the most challenging and addictive game for me is hacking them. When I do want to play a game, I usually turn on my gamecube or GBA...and sometimes my PC.

Almost every person I've talked to who does circuit boards or consumer products has agreed that the Xbox is really a steaming pile of dung.

Were you challenged by the Xbox in any way?

Again, see above...the Xbox security was pretty challenging. And the bigger the challenge, the more interesting it is. I haven't really hacked on the gamecube much, or the PS2, because they don't present the same level of challenge or personal satisfaction. Well, the PS2's security has already been cracked, and the gamecube...I think its security is more practical, although less cryptographically sound. The little I know about it indicates that the gamecube uses less crypto and more hardware obscurity to make it more difficult to hack. This is, in my opinion, a superior approach for consoles because the goal is not to create a floating castle with spires and gilded doors, but just a dirt berm high enough to make any illegal operation non-profitable.

. I like nVidia, and I hate seeing a good hardware company being ground into the dirt by careless engineers at Microsoft

I personally know dozens of unhappy Xbox users who have had to return their units, or have bought "new" units that were actually refurbs. In contrast, I know of not a single Gamecube or Playstation2 owner who has had to return their console.

Bill is almost single-handedly responsible for destroying any real innovation in the software world, in a manner very similar to the way Intel destroyed any real innovation in computer architecture.