Attacking the hardware is always "possible" but can be made unreasonably difficult to pull off in practice, and we've reached that point with game consoles now.

Attacking the hardware is always "possible" but can be made unreasonably difficult to pull off in practice, and we've reached that point with game consoles now. The Xbox One and Playstation 4 survived their entire generation without falling to hardware hacks, and the Xbox One didn't get hacked via software either. Microsoft is so confident in their security model that they openly explained how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo