Don't ever call a thing "unhackable", because every single human creation is imperfect
Nobody was calling it that, which is why the title is in 'quotes'.
Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
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#172This just again shows that given enough time skill, and resources, any security is pointless if the attacker has physical access to the device.
I suppose, but I'd argue it's effective security if it took ten years.
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
The PS3 was incredible value dollar-to-flop, given that it was sold at a loss. This resulted in universities and other research institutes buying them en masse to create supercomputer clusters. Naturally buying thousands of consoles but not a single game puts sony in a difficult position. Although I think it's sad the hardware got locked down in later revisions, I fully understand why they did it.
I would be curious to know more precise numbers. My intuition suggests that when Sony sells millions of them, the number diverted for non-gaming purposes is maybe thousands or tens of thousands.
Nearly 90 million units by the time it was discontinued, but I'm not sure how many were sold at the point they removed Linux support.
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#174> Whether PC users, our core readership, will be interested in actually emulating Xbox One, looks unlikely. The 2013 system’s game library is largely overlapped in better quality on the PC platform. And this explains why it's stayed unhacked so long. There was very little incentive to hack the system when the games are all playable on a PC. Pirates, cheaters, archivists, and hackers could just go there. Microsoft's b…
There is this general vibe online that the newer generation xboxen are either bad, worse than playstation, or a straight up failure.
My series x, combined with gamepass, is by a very large margin the most at-home-entertainment bang I have gotten for my buck.
Before then I had what could be regarded as a "vintage" gaming PC: 1st gen i7 (nehalem?), a gts 450 and some amount of ram. An upgrade (read: full replacement) was desperately needed. This was in the middle of the crypto gpu boom, so a decent GPU alone would've wiped my budget. I settled for an xbox as it was cheaper than a ps5.
I've always seen myself as part of the pc master race, and thought consoles to be very limited. But man, it just worked, the games just worked, and gamepass made it all a total steal.
Even now, when our 3 month old baby is settled for the night, me and my wife's preferred entertainment is a session of bg3 over watching tv.
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#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can give you a piece of paper with a one time pad encoded secret, where the one time is physically destroyed. You can take all the time you want but you will not crack anything…
You don't need to attack the math, if you can attack the sender or thr receiver ['s hardware].
Good luck If I burnt the one time pad.
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#176Can someone answer yes/no to the question ; is this the cheap steam box now ?
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#177> Whether PC users, our core readership, will be interested in actually emulating Xbox One, looks unlikely. The 2013 system’s game library is largely overlapped in better quality on the PC platform. And this explains why it's stayed unhacked so long. There was very little incentive to hack the system when the games are all playable on a PC. Pirates, cheaters, archivists, and hackers could just go there. Microsoft's b…
> Microsoft's best security measure was making something nobody cared enough about to hack in the first place
Maybe that's what they're trying to achieve with Windows as well.
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
> how does one defend against an attacker or red-team who controls the CPU voltage rails The xbox does have defences against this, the talk explicitly mentions rail monitoring defences intended to detect that kind of attack. It had a lot of them, and he had to build around them. The exploit succeeds because he found two glitch points that bypassed the timing randomisation and containment model.
I hope Apple is paying attention, since their first gen AirTags are vulnerable to voltage glitching to disable the speaker and the tracking warning.
I don't see much motivation for fixing that when I can purchase a nrf52xx Bluetooth Beacon on aliexpress for €4 and flash it with firmware that pretends to be 50 different airtags, rotating every 10 minutes, and therefore bypassing all tracker detections.
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#179Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nope, that was with YA BASIC.
There were different customs for different countries targetted with different tactics. Ya basic was only one front in that war.
Sure, if we disregard that PS2 Linux came almost two years later, was only sold via Internet, added an extra 500 euros on top, although it got discounted into 300 euros at the end of PS2 lifetime.
I own one such kit.
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#180I would like to try running linux on an xbox series-x (but thought it wasn't in the cards), it might make for a decent openclaw setup.