The "unhackable" Xbox One has been hacked — and Microsoft can’t patch it

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• joyjoy@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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?

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    • tomalley8342@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Plex too fwiw.

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  • Jhex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    this would be funnier, were it not so sad

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

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  • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    Tumbleweed

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  • samus12345@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Are there any XBOX One games that aren’t 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.

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    • SomethingBurger@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      en.wikipedia.org/…/Category:Xbox_One-only_games

      Basically, nothing notable except Forza 5.

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    • Grail@multiverse.soulism.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Halo 5

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• chrash0@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “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

  youtu.be/U7VwtOrwceo

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  • alekwithak@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I feel like allowing users to access dev mode played a large part in this as well. Without the option surely it would have been cracked sooner.
    Which is a great lesson in and of itself for tech companies willing to listen.

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    • SleeplessCityLights@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      And that is why they NDA anyone who touches a dev kit.

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    • M137@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This whole post, including your point, is basically just mirroring what MVG said in this video: youtu.be/Evi6IDgjPD0

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  • cheat700000007@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Dev mode should be considered as part of that success. It devalued hacking the system in the first place. It’s not going to be hacked if people aren’t trying.

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• org@lemmy.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dont challenge people by calling something “unhackable”

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  • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • yggstyle@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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  • ugjka@lemmy.ugjka.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • riquisimo@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The unbackable Switch 2!

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• Landless2029@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• db2@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    C-x M-c M-🦋

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  • psx_crab@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If it isn’t hackable then it’s hackable.

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• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So far this only works on Xbox Ones produced in 2013 I believe.

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• rabber@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Weird, I was looking at my dusty xbox one on the shelf yesterday and I looked up if it was hackable yet.

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  • frongt@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You should look at more things and wonder if they’re hackable.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      They can start with my bank account, I could use a sudden unexplained surge of funds…

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• tidderuuf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks at OG Alienware Steam Machine sitting in an enclosed shelf

  “Ash a ghost!”

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Microsoft probably doesn’t care at this point.

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