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Hootmon
May 6th, 2009, 01:55 PM
Toolkit reveals criminal activity on gaming consoles

A forensics toolkit for the Xbox gaming console is described by US researchers in the latest issue of the International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics. The toolkit could allow law enforcement agencies to scour the inbuilt hard disk of such devices and find illicit hidden materials easily.


Criminals often hide illicit data on the XBox in the hope that a gaming console will not be seen as a likely evidence target especially when conventional personal computers are present in the same premises, for instance. The toolkit developed by Collins will allow police and other investigators the chance to lay bare the contents of XBox hard disks.More here ===> http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/ip-xf043009.php
Guy4God
May 8th, 2009, 10:02 AM
That is weird because you really cannot save anything to the HD on the Xbox other than game progress, gamer profiles and such. My CPU and Xbox are linked for file sharing (streaming music, video, etc), but I did not know I could store anything on it.
4TheLight
May 8th, 2009, 02:08 PM
That is weird because you really cannot save anything to the HD on the Xbox other than game progress, gamer profiles and such. My CPU and Xbox are linked for file sharing (streaming music, video, etc), but I did not know I could store anything on it.

Ya think so eh? All you have to do is mod your xbox and it basically opens up your whole hard drive.
saved by Grace
May 13th, 2009, 04:02 PM
well,as far as X Box goes,it basically is a PC inside.it has a pentium 750 mhz cpu and Geforce 2 video card in it with a hard drive.
saved by Grace
May 17th, 2009, 03:24 PM
well,as far as X Box goes,it basically is a PC inside.it has a pentium 750 mhz cpu and Geforce 2 video card in it with a hard drive.

i forgot to mention that Pentium is a Pentium 3.
chainsrgone
May 27th, 2009, 02:16 PM
I was just wondering.... If somebody really wanted to hide something, why wouldn't they put it on something like a little memory card (like an SD card) or a thumb drive? Those things can hold a few gigabtes and I'm sure they're easier to hide than an X-Box. Of course, I'm not exactly an expert on hiding illegal material either.