Article from XBN Magazine

Exploring the dangers of playing online.

While doing surgery on your Xbox isn't "officially" suggested by the legal team at M$, it's becoming quite the craze these days. But with more and more souped-up systems hitting the market, rumors are abound about doing criminal time (or other felonious implications) for installing a mod chip. In timely fashion, we're here to debunk the rumors

MYTH: If you play Xbox Live with a modded Xbox, the FBI will bust down your door and arrest you with a warm controller still in hand.
TRUTH: "I've never heard of M$ crashing in on anyone's game room to fuff them," an anonymous expert Xbox modder, who has tinkered with more than 2,000 consoles, says. "Still, it is possible that M$ could trace your use of the mod chip, since each Xbox is uniquely encoded with its own serial ID. If, by chance, some bored Live technician ran a diagnostics check, a foreign object -like mod chip- would pop up, along with any bootlegged software you might have. Your best bet is to just buy another Xbox to play Live games and resave your modded system for the really important stuff -like 8-bit emulation, region-free DVD's, and porn."

MYTH: If your mod chip has an on/off switch, you're 100 percent safe from detection.
TRUTH: "Not true at all," our expert says. "While a switch cloaks the existence of a mod chip, detection is still possible. The chances of anyone finding out are slim to nil...still, even if the risk is that small, it's still a risk - and it's punishable."

Source: XBN