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How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
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Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Remote attestation will make it so you "can" technically run your own hardware and software (and that's what the FUD-spreaders will always say), but you'll be denied access to lots of, increasingly online, services. It's good to raise awareness of the centralization risks of remote attestation. One pro-security, pro-freedom alternative is local attestation, e.g. to a USB security key running OSS firmware under user…
One pro-security, pro-freedom alternative is local attestation What's the point? That's about as useful as running your own CA. The fact is, those pushing remote attestation want remote centralised control and they're going to care that you have your own attestation infrastructure as much as they'll care that you have your own CA, i.e. they're not going to be satisfied because they're trusting their own, and not your…
> What's the point? That's about as useful as running your own CA.
Running your own CA IS useful.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#213Why would they care if my hard drive is genuine? For the PS3, PS4 and PS5 i just bought a hard drive (ssd for the ps5) matching their specs, installed it inside and gamed on. For the xbox you have to buy hard drives from Microsoft? Edit: please don't tell me about usb drives hanging off your console. I don't like stuff hanging off my console.
The later generations of Xbox allow any external hard drives to be used.
With breathtaking USB 2.0 speeds, yay.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#214Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#215Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, that's called HDCP. The master key was cracked long ago for older versions.
For new versions, you can get a converter; hdcp 2.2 -> hdcp 1.4 and then use whatevee breakage on 1.4. So it's only effective if you don't search.
You can’t produce good quality rips like this, if that was the best solution the DRM people would have won.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
Every time I hear about the XBox's platform security, I think back to this talk [1] about how Microsoft protected the XBox One. A lot of it boils down to clear requirements and good engineering, and many of these technologies are now showing up via Project Pluton. [1] https://www.platformsecuritysummit.com/2019/speaker/chen/
and many of these technologies are now showing up via Project Pluton. More awareness needs to be made of how this will have a devestating impact on end-user freedom. They're attacking the PC, one of the last holdouts of general-purpose computing freedom. Remote attestation will make it so you "can" technically run your own hardware and software (and that's what the FUD-spreaders will always say), but you'll be denied…
You say this on a forum where the majority probably has an iphone or macbook, of course people are going to be tone-deaf to it.
Not even the HN-audience cares enough to turn down something shiny.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#217This is the same sort of bullshit that HP has done with their computer hard drives, but with an even more elaborate lock-in by Microsoft in this case. The HP computers came with an OEM Windows CD so you could re-install the OS after replacing a bad hard drive, but if you chose to replace the hard drive with anything other than a "genuine" HP replacement part, the Windows installation would fail. Note that the HP repl…
Meanwhile, the pirate with cracked Windows has none of these problems.
This is why pirated software is many times better than the official! I have licensed CDs but still have to use cracked games because of the f*g DRM sh* in the official ones.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#218Earlier quoted context omitted.
For new versions, you can get a converter; hdcp 2.2 -> hdcp 1.4 and then use whatevee breakage on 1.4. So it's only effective if you don't search.
You can’t produce good quality rips like this, if that was the best solution the DRM people would have won.
You can produce pixel perfect rips. But since the resulting video file is so large you will "need" to compress it, and then you get compression on compression artefacts.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#219Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh? I don't even think there Are official Steam Deck sales numbers. The best I can find was that they shipped over 1 million last October, not sold. But that was actually not long after they BEGAN shipping units. Not only that, but we're comparing it to the Switch, which is one of THE best selling game consoles ever . However, in its first year, IIRC, it actually "only" sold around 10 million units. That suggests th…
For what it's worth, I've never owned a console of any kind in my life, but I would really like to own a Steam Deck. Though I could buy the Steam Deck now, I am eagerly waiting for Steam Deck 2 just to see if there are lessons-learned-improvements from the first iteration.
I smhave one and say its perfectly useable already - and would recommend getting one, even just to vote with your wallet for something nice.
Re: How the Xbox 360 knows if your hard drive is genuine
#220Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steam Deck is pretty much the spiritual opposite of everything the console makers and the DRM industry stands for. I'm just waiting for big DRM publishers to start blocking it with excuse of poor DRM security and lockout.
Biggest thing is they're running Windows games on Linux via Wine, and idk how happy Microsoft is with that.
> how happy Microsoft is with that
Not very happy, and there is absolutely nothing they can do about it.