Not sure if this has already been posted but found it on Robinhoodsplayground, it may be crap but its an interesting read !! "I will post in here and hope my identity is not compromised as I will get into severe trouble this is what i do. i am xbox live checks manager and i am the guy who helps run through the data being sent to xbox live that has been flagged for banning and was also discussed a very long time ago of what will "bring down all modified xboxs" i myself have an xbox that has been modified because i think it is a crime what they do charging so much when the games dont even cost microsoft half of what they are getting anyway. we have found a way to read the firmware. the nxe update has allowed us to do a check on the current firmware installed on the dvd drive the reason this was not flagged was because the code was not active. as you might have heard it was discussed about a "self destruct" code embedded in the nxe update and even before that. this was that code it wasn't a self destruct code but actually a check that was done on all drives this check was begun when the update was to "prepare for the last.fm facebook and twitter" this in fact was the code sent out to begin checks on ALL xboxs these checks would send us information on the firmware written to the drive not the exact kind but we did a extensive form of hash check on the drive and could actually find out if it was modified in anyway this was particularly easy on the lite-on as it was actually manufactured to serve for this purpose as our testing model we will not ban all consoles at once and yes all information about you has been collected a long time ago we have THOUSANDS of xboxs reporting bad checks meaning modified firmware. not all people will be banned and all the bans are done at randomn times multiple checks have been done over this amount of time so we could asure the modified xboxs were truely modified and not just returning corrupt data i am sorry i did not com forward with this information sooner but this information has been critical to the cat and mouse game this check was also done back in the xtreme days if anyone remembers that when c4eva had to rewwrite it to allow the checks to come back clean well this must be done again sorry all for the bannings but it is a natural process and I wish you all luck and hope you do not get banned if you do await the new firmware that is begin developed and cheers to you all you wanted to know it now you got it Well, if this IS true...then they implemented this in the update when the NXE got released. Because I did NOT update after that NXE Dashboard update (removed the ethernet cable), then my Xbox got the RROD. I didn't fix it for 3 months, last weekend I finally fixed the RROD. I also wanted to download some title updates, at the dashboard update question I anwsered NO (it asked me to update the dashboard, because my latest dashboard update was that one where the NXE was introduced). After selecting no at this question, I got disconnected (offcourse). I decided I really wanted that title update, so I tried again to log into Live....it wasn't possible because I was BANNED. So the latest update isn't responsible for the ban wave, it was the NXE update itself that flagged the Boxes. Tikiuosi forumo dalyviams anglu kalba nekelia problemu. Kaip zinote naujausios konsoles jau eina su nenuflashinamais dvd romais. Vat ir visa konspiracijos teorija. Ir pabaigai sviesa tunelio gale C4Eva announced he's working on a new firmware on IRC: "[c4eva] new fw in dev/test - ixtreme LT (Lite Touch) - more efficient , minimal patching , all aspects of fw indistinguisable from orig, no more bans, No ETA!" We do not have more details atm. As far as we know the 3 'test boxes' C4Eva has running are still fine (not banned). So there's NO ETA for the firmware yet but it should come out for Lite-On drives first.
