I would have to say that it is a pretty bad misstatement to assume that all people who hack their xboxes are script kiddies. Most of the people that I know who have modified their xbox would have no clue what the hell a script kiddie is. Let alone be within 10 years of the average age of a skiddie.. I know quit a few people who have modified them for the sole purpose of having a multimedia pc connected to their TV and stereo equipment. The software is free, and the mod chips are cheap and incredibly easy to install.

Why pay HP a ton of a money for a multimedia version of XP with surround sound when you can get an xbox that will do the same exact thing for 180$ when you include the cost of the chip??? I do have to agree that it is kind of stupid to attach a modded xbox to xbox live as it was only a matter of time until they will start checking for weird directory structures, additional disks, larger capacity disks, etc.. I'm sure they are already checking most of that now. Although, with the new USB harddrives, it will probably be easy to load the entire evox image onto a chip(larger memory banks would be needed), and then have the chip enable the external disk drive. This way when you turn the mod chip off, the rest of the xbox is completely stock, and the external harddrive is not recognized at all.