A graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claims he has found a way to circumvent the security system for Microsoft's Xbox video game console, opening the way for hackers to use it to run competing software.
The MIT computer expert, who posted his report on his university Web site over the weekend, also questioned the security behind Microsoft's soon-to-launch online service, Xbox Live, saying hackers could exploit a flaw in the system to identify individual players from their game machines.
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