Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security

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43 points by sprado 4 hours ago


sprado - 4 hours ago

After some time without posting on my blog, I decided to get back to it — and my first post after the break is about the history of video game security! There are also some great stories along the way, like Atari reverse-engineering Nintendo’s lockout system, or how simply changing the name of Link's horse became an attack vector on the Nintendo Wii. I had a lot of fun researching and writing this article, and I learned a lot in the process. I hope you enjoy it too!

riverforest - an hour ago

The cat and mouse between console makers and hackers is one of the more honest stories in tech. Both sides kept making each other better.

serhack_ - an hour ago

interesting video I was seeing the other day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4UZsA5U

yaros_love - 2 hours ago

Thanks for such an interesting read. Would be awesome to get sort of a "follow up" about modern sophisticated digital solutions we have now (denuvo and so on)