Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Hacking the XBox
The xbox-linux project published an article detailing the xbox’s security architecture and how it was repeatedly compromised.
17 Mistakes Microsoft Made in the Xbox Security System
It’s an interesting read. I have never taken an interest in game consoles in the first place, but their use as a cheap, quiet, and cool set-top server is increasingly appealing to me. Clearly, the PS2 was always open to running Linux, which makes me wonder if the hardware was similarly subsidized (I suppose so). If the article has it right, Sony managed to both open the PS2 a lot wider where it didn’t bother them, while locking it down a lot better where it did.