Security researcher Markus Gaasedelen cracked the Xbox One using voltage glitching — a silicon-level exploit Microsoft can’t patch.
  • unalivejoy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    17 hours

    Because the exploit targets the boot ROM burned into silicon, Microslop can’t patch it. Every Xbox One ever manufactured is vulnerable, and always will be. The hack gives complete access to everything — the Hypervisor, the operating system, the ability to run unsigned code at every privilege level. Games and firmware can be decrypted, which could open the door to emulation projects and eventual mod chips.

    Xbox exclusives coming soon to SteamDeck.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10 hours

      Amazing! Let’s take a look at all the exclusives for xbox!

      Tumbleweed

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      15 hours

      Dude OG Xbox was GOAT for emulation and entertainment. Kodi got its start there, as xbmc.

      I’d be so excited to have that again.

      Does this apply to X|S or just Xbone?

      • tomalley8342@lemmy.worldEnglish
        15 hours

        It only applies to the 2013 model of the original Xbox One. Later Xbox Ones have more stringent checks.

        • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
          9 hours

          Emulating the former is good enough for games preservation (or whatever you decide to do with the games).

      • FauxLiving@lemmy.worldEnglish
        13 hours

        I still have an OG Xbox with an emulator and the SNES romset and Conker’s Bad Fur Day on another partition (I did the mod to install a larger HDD). All it took was a hacked save and a Mechwarrior game.

      • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        12 hours

        The dcemulation scene walked so Xbox emulation could run emulated software in new an innovative ways ;3

          • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            11 hours

            My duuuuude <3

            It was MINDBLOWING to me hahaha. I’m thinking “BUT IT’S NOT EVEN A GD-ROM AND IT WORKS AND I CAN PLAY SECRET OF MANA?!”

            • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
              11 hours

              Amazing stuff, the devs were a decent bunch too, I distinctly remember pestering a dev to create a save game loader that would write saves from a disk to a vmu on the irc channel for wraggster’s dcemu forum. Might have to dig out my old Dreamcast if it still lives.

        • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
          7 hours

          Well yes, but Plex started as a port of XBMC to run on Mac os; you installed XBMC directly on the Xbox, it turned your Xbox into a streaming box.

    • Jhex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15 hours

      this would be funnier, were it not so sad

      Oh wait, it’s sad for Microslop so it’s even funnier!!!

    • samus12345@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13 hours

      Are there any XBOX One games that aren’t also on PC? Steam Deck can already run most of those.

      I guess there’s Rare Replay, but all of those game are already playable on the Steam Deck individually.

    • alekwithak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16 hours

      I thought it was only the release version of the console that was vulnerable. Was there a breakthrough in the last two days?

  • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 hours

    “unhackable” is a bit sensationalized here. the Xbox One is actually a security success story not because it is impossible to hack, but because it’s a rare example of a console that wasn’t hacked in its service lifetime. at the risk of giving praise to Microsoft, the architecture is actually really neat and informed the security features of subsequent Windows releases, ie a hypervisor with sandboxed sub containers (this is why they required TPMs).

    (also i’m not agreeing with requiring a TPM for general purpose machines; they make sense on a bespoke hardware platform like a game console)

    i bet this hack is nuts, but the blue team deserves some level of kudos

    https://youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

  • org@lemmy.orgEnglish
    17 hours

    Dont challenge people by calling something “unhackable”

    • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      17 hours

      I mean, it took almost 13 years and the product itself was discontinued six years ago

      • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        17 hours

        Tools and methods used to jailbreak this generation can and will be refined and used on the next one. It should be noted that the full force of the hacking community wasn’t behind this effort. The homebrew function placated a lot of people. Had microslop pulled a sony and yanked a feature or not provided that outlet: I’d imagine we’d have seen more exploits sooner.

    • ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.netEnglish
      17 hours

      I watched the talk and the demo, the bar is pretty high. But the good news that a relatively simple modchip should be possible

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16 hours

    Everything is hackable if you’re determined. Even an air gapped computer in a locked room.

  • Landless2029@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 hours

    So depending on the specs it might be fun to get a used Xbox One and turn it into a steam machine. Better it’ll be done within 2 years.

  • rabber@lemmy.caEnglish
    17 hours

    Weird, I was looking at my dusty xbox one on the shelf yesterday and I looked up if it was hackable yet. It would make such a good TV PC.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17 hours

    Looks at OG Alienware Steam Machine sitting in an enclosed shelf

    “Aah a ghost!”