alt Hacker NewsI think it counts as effectively unhackable since it remained unhacked until five and a half years after its successor went on the market.
I wonder if, assuming they continue making Xbox, they find a way to mitigate this in the next generation.
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darknavi • yesterday at 4:58 PM
> assuming they continue making Xbox
It sounds like that's the plan:
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/03/11/project-helix-buildin...
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The presentation notes that this hack currently only works with the first revision of silicon. Later variants have more protections, like some anti-glitching tech that wasn’t quite debugged for the early units being enabled for later runs, and further changes with the security / reset subsystems being split into two separate cores with revised consoles like the the One X. So these would be more of a challenge, even if there’s now an angle of attack to investigate.