Microsoft Aims for Hack-Proof 360

jondaw writes "The BBC is reporting that "Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack...There are going to be levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before...I'm sure sooner or later someone will work out how to circumvent security. But the way we have done the design doesn't mean that it will work on somebody else's machine.""

Comments

Amount of work in design

[Wayne247]

Is simply equal to the amount of work hackers will have to do to get around it.

Claiming something hackproof is like saying a doorlock is tamper-proof. It *can* be opened, it's just how much work are you prepared to do that justifies doing it.

The Only Secure System

[TracerRX]

The only secure computer is one that is turned off, locked in a safe and buried 20 feet down in a secret location, and I'm not completely confident of that either. -- Bruce Schneier

Why?

[marcus]

I am sure that there are others like me, the only reason I bought an Xbox was because it *was* hackable!

I use it in a 'hacked state' far more often than 'straight'.