Why do you put 'unhackable' within quotes, like it would be a direct quote from Microsoft? I can't find any record of them using that word.
I interpreted it as scare quotes in general. Like "previously thought unhackable Xbox One has been hacked"
Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
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#252Earlier quoted context omitted.
Linux on playstation was a play by Sony not to have customs like on a toy but as a more favorable computer merchandise. They didn't care.
Linux on Playstation was the final hubris of Ken Kutaragi to have his insane CPU design take over computing. Kutaragi envisaged the PS3 becoming a standard hardware platform similar to the PC but fully controlled by Sony. That was their goal with the PS3, they said so themselves time and time again. The second Kutaragi was removed from power over at Playstation, they closed the Other OS function. It was the last time…
> It was the last time that a Japanese company made a fundamentally Japanese move.
What do you mean by this?
Re: Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
#253The "unhackable" label has always been a liability, not a feature. In my experience, the moment a vendor publicly declares something unbreakable, they've handed researchers the most compelling motivation possible. It's less a security posture and more a recruitment poster. Hardware you own should be yours to understand.
I don't think the vendor ever said "unhackable" in this case, though. At least not publicly.
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other major incentive for hacking the console Microsoft removed was for the first time on a modern mainstream home console to allow side loading of homebrew code/emulators etc. The console supported a developer mode that allowed side loading of third party applications, so folks could get emulators and other traditionally "banned" content on the console through an officially supported route. There's a great prese…
"side loading", I know this term is the one used but I think should be pushed back against with just using the standard "installing"/"install". It makes the control point clearer and (should be) unsettling when you can't "install" software on hardware you own.
Agree. I recommended Stremio to a friend on an iPhone and it turns out it has to be "side loaded". My response is "so you can't install it?"
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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.
What's the battery life like on one of those?
Months if the firmware properly sleeps.
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I haven't looked, but I am pretty sure that Saddam was dead before the ps3 launched. At the very least, his 2003/2004 ouster was before the ca 2007ish (I think) launch date.
Ok, I looked it up; Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30, 2006 and the ps3 launched on Nov 11, 2006 in Japan and Nov 17, 2006 in the US. So, technically, he was alive for the launch.
That factoid has the ingredients for an awesome conspiracy theory ;-)
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#257Earlier quoted context omitted.
at some point it was claimed that the reason sony removed the ability to run linux was because, literally, Saddam Hussein (maybe not) was using them to pilot jets or somesuch.
I haven't looked, but I am pretty sure that Saddam was dead before the ps3 launched. At the very least, his 2003/2004 ouster was before the ca 2007ish (I think) launch date.
I said the word claimed. in the past. And it was more like: thousands of PS2 because sony/japan marked them dual use because they "were so powerful." So probably astro-turfed or even native advertising (considering the place that "broke" the story.)
buuuuut https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_cluster the US government went ahead and did make a supercomputer out of PS3s.
anyhow thanks for helping me confirm my memory is functioning perfectly.
ETA: https://web.archive.org/web/20041120084657/http://arrakis.nc... probably where this "wacky" idea came from...
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#258> 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) w…
> when our 3 month old baby is settled for the night
Seemed a credible comment till that point! (/s)
Congrats :-)
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I think this might be a good example of the fundamental misunderstanding of what "security" even is. It is never a binary state. Never was. And I think a lot of people don't really grok that and think that if a security block can be overcome in some manner then the thing is not secure . Eventually Fort Knox will succumb to the unrelenting arrow of time and some future visitors will simply step over the crumbling wall…
I never hear about Grok being used over Codex or Claude on this site, I don't really hear about new Grok models or updates yet people love using Grok as a way to communicate meaning, are you guys just on Twitter too much?
"grok" in that sense is from a novel, i think Stranger in a Strange Land by Heinlein. i heard it before i read the novel, i'm sure, but i didn't notice it until afterward.
it means like "full understanding", like complete.
Does the name now make sense, considering!?
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#260Earlier quoted context omitted.
"side loading", I know this term is the one used but I think should be pushed back against with just using the standard "installing"/"install". It makes the control point clearer and (should be) unsettling when you can't "install" software on hardware you own.
It's a great point. As a geek I used to think those details don't matter, but it turns out language shapes society and how humans think way more than I understood. We need to catch up on this because the people who know how to use language for propagandizing don't have the best intentions in mind. But using the original term is not enough. We need to combat their word-twisting by upping them. We need a way to convey…
Sideloading should be called installing, and installing from the store should be called jailloading.