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bitmasher9yesterday at 6:25 PM3 repliesview on HN

Except Sony is notoriously bad at actually securing their consoles.


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junonyesterday at 6:39 PM

It shouldn't be the case that this is relied upon. There needs to be a cultural shift in the industry back to physical - or at least, preservable - media.

mywittynameyesterday at 7:36 PM

The PS5 has been pretty secure (though, not perfect). They learned their lesson from the PS4 and took some pages out of the Microsoft playbook - brought back the hypervisor and implemented e-fuses.

Byepervisor did crack the hypervisor, but it requires an old version of the firmware and the console has to be kept offline to avoid being upgraded. There's no mechanism to downgrade the firmware like there was with the PS4, which limits the blast radius of potential jailbreaks.

Of course, even offline consoles can be updated, since games can ship with firmware updates required need to play the game.

croesyesterday at 8:18 PM

Maybe AI will change that.

That’s the crux, safe software is like an unbreakable lock. It can keep safe what you value or it can lock you in|out.

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