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Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft

Platform Security Summit · 95.1K views · 2019-10-21 · 58:05

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Microsoft's Tony Chen explains how the Xbox One was designed to resist physical attacks, including secure boot, encrypted memory, a security processor and a hypervisor. The goal was to make any hardware attack cost more than the price of many games.

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HN points to it constantly in console, DRM and hardware-security threads as the authoritative account of Xbox One's threat model.

Recommended by 8 HN people across 8 months · HN mentions 2019–2026

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ytch · 2026-04 · Recommendation

Guarding Against Physical Attacks: The Xbox One Story — Tony Chen, Microsoft: [VIDEO] I like this video too, Tony Chen explains the overview of Xbox security system.

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mmaniac · 2024-11 · Recommendation

Modchips on newer Switches use fault injections (clock/voltage glitching) but there exist mitigations for those. The Xbox One is confirmed to use them. I encourage you to watch this video where Microsoft describes the security design of the Xbox One, which so far has been almost bulletproof. [VIDEO]

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numpad0 · 2023-06 · Recommendation

This talk[1] was interesting watch wrt that. They made DRAM encrypted and Secure Boot seems to be done right too… 1: [VIDEO]

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