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Or you have no morals whatsoever and decide to join the highest order children's pocket money thieves in the world. The computer games industry. There you can

Or you have no morals whatsoever and decide to join the highest order children's pocket money thieves in the world. The computer games industry. There you can be exploited labour to produce a $100m budget game which makes a 50% profit margin in its first weekend and then 5 years later still ask children for $70 per copy. Or, if they're feeling charitable, they can pay you $150 to get a virtual horse or hat with the game. If you don't like how they play with the toy. You can just steal it right back out of their hands by banning them from playing it with their friends remotely. You can use your profits to lobby for laws which imprison anyone who takes the tiniest dent out of your profits and have them thrown in to prison next to terrorists and serious criminals. Or you can use it to just sue children who are curious about computers. Hi sony!

marcan_42 6y ago
You don't need to lecture me about Sony, seeing as I was named as a defendant in that lawsuit :-) I never said the games industry are the good guys. Certainly not Sony. Though, for comparison, Microsoft hired some of the Xbox 360 hackers, and now the Xbox One has the best security of all the consoles. Food for thought.
- girvo 6y ago
  The Xbox One also deterred myself from even needing to look at hacking it, by allowing me to run my own code on it (with restricted functionality to be fair). Homebrew is why I was a part of the GCN scene back in the day :)
  - Kaze404 6y ago
    How does that work? Does the Xbox One have an official SDK?
    - girvo 6y ago
      https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devkit-activation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki... It’s only the UWP platform, so it’s not full access, but it’s good fun for my homebrew fiddling :)
      - Kaze404 6y ago
        Whoa, that's incredible. I'm definitely getting a Series X now, thanks.
  - marcan_42 6y ago
    And the PS3 deterred all of us with PS3 Linux, until they got rid of it in a firmware update (quite likely violating consumer protection laws), after which we all started looking at it. Then it turned out all the "amazing security" of the Cell architecture boiled down to a bunch of things thrown at a wall with no sense nor reason. And Sony botched the crypto so badly they became the textbook example of how to screw up ECDSA and allow anyone to derive your private keys.

marcan_42 6y ago

You don't need to lecture me about Sony, seeing as I was named as a defendant in that lawsuit :-) I never said the games industry are the good guys. Certainly not Sony. Though, for comparison, Microsoft hired some of the Xbox 360 hackers, and now the Xbox One has the best security of all the consoles. Food for thought.

girvo 6y ago
The Xbox One also deterred myself from even needing to look at hacking it, by allowing me to run my own code on it (with restricted functionality to be fair). Homebrew is why I was a part of the GCN scene back in the day :)
- Kaze404 6y ago
  How does that work? Does the Xbox One have an official SDK?
  - girvo 6y ago
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devkit-activation https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/devki... It’s only the UWP platform, so it’s not full access, but it’s good fun for my homebrew fiddling :)
    - Kaze404 6y ago
      Whoa, that's incredible. I'm definitely getting a Series X now, thanks.
- marcan_42 6y ago
  And the PS3 deterred all of us with PS3 Linux, until they got rid of it in a firmware update (quite likely violating consumer protection laws), after which we all started looking at it. Then it turned out all the "amazing security" of the Cell architecture boiled down to a bunch of things thrown at a wall with no sense nor reason. And Sony botched the crypto so badly they became the textbook example of how to screw up ECDSA and allow anyone to derive your private keys.