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Xboxes and PlayStations have cryptographic chains of trust going back to their on die boot ROM. You can't just pull it out and use it on another Xbox or PlaySt
by monocasa 6y ago
Xboxes and PlayStations have cryptographic chains of trust going back to their on die boot ROM. You can't just pull it out and use it on another Xbox or PlayStation, much less use them for generic computation.
I think the Xbox One is the first console to have no unsigned code execution at all during it's lifetime.
- qball 6y agoYou can trivially run whatever code you wanted to if you seized the signing keys; I suspect that in such a "collect all the general-purpose computers for general-purpose computing things" that would be the first order of business. Not that the government doesn't already have copies, of course.
- monocasa 6y agoI guess I didn't read a .gov mandate in what the parent was suggesting.