<story><title>Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox</title><url>https://github.com/XboxDev/endgame-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&amp;#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&amp;#x2F;private key crypto means that it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable and unbackupable, barring some tiny bootloader exploit, cheap TEM and an understanding of &amp;quot;physically uncloneable functions&amp;quot;, or cheap and plentiful qubits.&lt;p&gt;Things like this are just cool, prevent e-waste, and preserve cultural heritage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>auguzanellato</author><text>&amp;gt; In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&amp;#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&amp;#x2F;private key crypto means that it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable&lt;p&gt;Pirates will always find a way, the Nintendo Switch had all the countermeasures you mentioned, the latest revisions also have a patched bootloader but someone figured out that they could still boot a custom firmware via power fault injection on the SoC.</text></comment>
<story><title>Endgame: A dashboard exploit for the original Xbox</title><url>https://github.com/XboxDev/endgame-exploit</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>azalemeth</author><text>In many ways I think it is really quite sad that we&amp;#x27;re at a point where blown e-fuses, encrypted everything and properly done public&amp;#x2F;private key crypto means that it&amp;#x27;s entirely possible that next generation of consoles really might actually be unhackable and unbackupable, barring some tiny bootloader exploit, cheap TEM and an understanding of &amp;quot;physically uncloneable functions&amp;quot;, or cheap and plentiful qubits.&lt;p&gt;Things like this are just cool, prevent e-waste, and preserve cultural heritage.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rusk</author><text>it saddens me as a vintage games conservator that my present day PS4 will be a brick in a few years. When I have consoles and games going back 40 years. It just doesn’t seem right.</text></comment>