I love how game consoles are always providing exciting hacks - from the variety of CPUs and DSPs used in SNES cartridges to the brute-forced SHA collision explo

I love how game consoles are always providing exciting hacks - from the variety of CPUs and DSPs used in SNES cartridges to the brute-forced SHA collision exploited to hack the PSP. For what it's worth, this is almost identical to the process initially used to hack satellite TV smartcards, except it seems that these devices had a lot less physical tamper protection (and can't be reprogrammed with a new ROM over-the-air). I think this kind of console hack is a dying art - as process shrinks and most consoles move closer and closer to commodity hardware and off-the-shelf software, LLE and chip decapping become less and less appealing and software exploits are the name of the game. Absolutely awesome, though - this is the kind of story I come to HN to read.