I have my bricked retail sitting on my desk, it's my second favorite paperweight.
After CON files were being resigned with 00000' keys, they tried and failed to maintain a "known bad" list of RSA private keypairs that were known to be resigning modified content.
after that patchwork hack failed, because of the spread of CON resigners, they gave up on that effort. You can still find blacklisted keypairs in the NAND, if you looked around.
but my retail was't exactly unmodified, so I was bending the definition of "retail", here...
but yes, they bricked retail consoles posing as xDev and pNET kits.
After CON files were being resigned with 00000' keys, they tried and failed to maintain a "known bad" list of RSA private keypairs that were known to be resigning modified content.
after that patchwork hack failed, because of the spread of CON resigners, they gave up on that effort. You can still find blacklisted keypairs in the NAND, if you looked around.
but my retail was't exactly unmodified, so I was bending the definition of "retail", here...
but yes, they bricked retail consoles posing as xDev and pNET kits.
dont blame them. we were bad kids.