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There is an amazing video about Xbox security. It's extreme. For example the games executables are actually encrypted on the game discs, and it's almost imposs
by dist-epoch 3y ago
There is an amazing video about Xbox security. It's extreme.
For example the games executables are actually encrypted on the game discs, and it's almost impossible to even dump the actual binary that is running. RAM is also encrypted.
Or the reason modern TPMs live inside the CPU is to prevent sniffing the TPM bus which people did on the Xbox.
- azalemeth 3y agoThe part about that video that makes me resolve to never buy an XBox is when they explicitly state that the user is considered hostile and the threat vector – hence the silicon-level DRM that requires a clean room, electron microscope, and molecular beam epitaxy to reverse (which their crypto algorithms also assume will happen, what with the whole pubkey/privkey root of trust and all...). I'd like to be treated as a customer, and allowed to play on the hardware I just paid a lot of money to buy!
- ErneX 3y agoI prefer that so we don’t get cheaters in online games for example. Consoles are cheap too, so not a lot a money.