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unrelated, but recently XBox One was hacked for the first time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U



How does XBox get hacked when it uses Secure Boot?


Voltage glitching. An outside attacker who has direct, extremely fine-grained control over the power supply to the chip can cause it to brown out for one instruction cycle, preventing a result of an instruction from being written.

With enough sophistication, physical access is more powerful than root access, no exceptions.




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