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

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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Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Platform Security Summit
Topic
console hardware security
Format
talk
Level
advanced
HN recommenders in dataset
8
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2019–2026

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  • Here is an excellent talk about the Xbox One security (and Series X|S should be quite similar) by the person who is in charge of security on the Xbox platform. [VIDEO] Basically it boils down to trust NOTHING outside the actual SoC chip (so stuff …

    doikor on Hacker News · 2020-11
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  • DRM has only been successful in the space of making easily replicable attacks more expensive than what is being protected by the DRM. Microsoft has talked about this publicly in this great talk on the Xbox One's physical device security. 'We can't stop people hacking, …

    monocasa on Hacker News · 2021-04
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  • There's a really good presentation, by a Microsoft Platform Security Engineer, detailing the lengths they went through to ensure only properly signed executables run on the Xbox One and really answers your question. One of the tools they developed, HVCI, was later incorporated into Windows …

    nemothekid on Hacker News · 2022-03
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