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Comment by mike_hearn

That's not how attestation infrastructures work. Obviously they thought of all that.

Modern hardware attestation is - if implemented correctly - not beatable unless you decap chips and start trying to extract hardware keys. But the silicon itself is often heavily obfuscated and such a feat has not been demonstrated for modern hardware.

All breaks of modern console security rely on finding bugs or mistakes in the implementation. If the PS5 has got serious exploits then either:

1. They will patch it and revoke old firmwares, as the infrastructure lets them do. Then you have to try and find a new exploit in the firmware that GTA6 was released for.

2. It won't be released for PS5 until later. Xbox security has been undefeated for a long time now, so Microsoft might have an advantage there.

parent mike_hearn 25 days ago

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