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Hacking The Xbox: An Introduction To Reverse Engineering is, quite literally, the book that Microsoft (makers of the popular Xbox video game console) does not want you to read. Individual chapters comprehensively addresses in depth how to modify this gaming console for one's own ends, from physically opening it (and voiding the Microsoft warranty) to installing a blue LED, replacing a broken power supply, reverse engineering Xbox security, developing software for the Xbox on Xbox-Linux, soldering techniques, debugging tips, and much, much more. A knowledgeable and technically detailed instructional, Hacking The Xbox offers specific, authoritative, accessible information about reverse engineering a specific device, as well as basic principles that can be generalized to other reverse engineering hardware projects.

An amazing book, written about a practical machine in a way that's not dry and theoretical. If you are still studying in CE/EE, this is a book that'd perk your interest even more in the field. As I read Huang's book, I couldn't help but feel his excitement as he hack through the security encryptions built into the XBox.

It's written in formal yet... somewhat casual manner for easy reading. I recommend it to anyone that have a desire to understand how computers. Especially to freshmen in universities thinking about becoming an engineer!

The author has great insights about microsoft's tactics (and how to bypass them). This book I would reccomend only to more advanced "hackers" because of the advanced tech stuff. But I think he could have added more hardware mods. The blue Led wasnt that cool.