So it wasnt because Microsoft made it unhackable , it was because Microsoft made it not worth hacking, a pretty smart move. Its kinda like "If you cant beat them, join them"

Moral of the story, if you don't want people to jailbreak your system let them run homebrew and emulators(even if it's in a sandbox environment).

Vita failed mostly on marketing and memory card prices, piracy was only possible after it was essentially dead

Ya Microsoft has a good strategy make it secure and then remove 80% of the people who are trying to hack the console so the only people who are trying to hack it is the pirates

This aged well the Xbox one is now able to be jailbroken

I remember what a Capcom american developer said when he told a japanese dev that their games were always cracked in advance; the japanese dev replied "They pirate our games? But that's illegal!".

I barely know anything about console security. I keep learning from this man every video he puts out.

As far as I remember there was another hack for the 360, which affected the DVD drive only. One had to remove the drive from the console, put it in a PC and change it's firmware so it would report burned DVDs as retail ones.

Bare in mind, no system is unhackable. It’s as he said, microsoft made it entirely pointless to want to unless you wish to pirate, no other defence. I do personally think we’ll see an exploit happen soon when the console has been completely cut off, although the 360 servers are still up so that should speak when an xbox one exploit will happen, let alone series consoles and beyond & it’s already likely that exploits exist & just are remaining private since it’ll be entirely pointless to release it.

Great content man, just stumbled across your channel and love it. I think xbox really have nailed their architecture with these latest systems, its going to be a fair few years till this system sees any kind of hack if at all

Great video man. I have been thinking about this over the last year and I agree with everything here. I am currently jailbreaking my ps4 to do exactly this

PS5 already has an exploit this stuff is crazy

Great content but there's ways in the past where rgh users had spoofed their firmware to play online without updating. It was done by various homebrew apps. Now I agree as a software developer that no one wants their work to be patch by Microsoft after all the time put into it but even if they did patch it with a update. The update alone wont be too much of a difference in the code. Meaning shouldn't take long after update release to make a new jailbreak

You forgot to mention that every title is ran in its own Hyper-V virtualized environment. Meaning that with such memory and address randomness even if an exploit was found, Hyper-V pretty much makes sure its a one-time gig. Also if comprised, most of the apps, games or even the OS would likely realize this and cease to function.

You see, here's the thing.. what Microsoft and to some extent Sony learned is that renewable security is needed at the software and hardware levels to combat piracy. One alone would not be enough. However, what I think most people are missing, is that if an exploit gets these consoles into a jailbroken mode with jailbreak hardware/firmware/software to make it so, AND the pirates port the titles (mainly the offline ones) to this jailbroken firmware to specifically work on this type of mod.. there is no teeth to the renewable security.. and it will still be a 1:1 hack.. the hardware is in an offline state (at least to the the phone home mode) and the mod allows ported & hacked games to work. This will indeed happen, IF there is a demand and incentive to take things to the next level.. which eventually there will be or probably already has... it's just the 2022 version of the Captain Crunch decoder ring... also, sometimes the console's security get compromised by leaks from the developers part way through the release's lifetime.

I don't think Xbox will be hacked , I think they did an awesome job with their ecosystem if you don't want to buy an Xbox you can buy their games on pc or just buy a Xbox pass on pc , plus as you said the fact that it can run retroarch and all types of emulators up to ps2 with no problems is just awesome.

The Sega CD has *no security*. This is because CD burners in 1991/1992 were basically unknown to the general user because at the time they were priced upward of $10,000 and it wasn't until the HP 4020i recorder in 1995 that you could purchase a recorder for less than $1,000.

Modding the 360 back in 08' was a weekend project when I had the time. Making sure I had all the right parts and pieces. It was a learning experience.

That's why everytime they delist a Forza Horizon, its DLC go to heaven.

Great video 🔥 i only watched 2 of your videos and I'm already subscribed. You explain things really easily and i mean so easy to understand 👍

Very interesting subject. Loved the background of the Xbox consoles. Instant sub

I grew up with a ps3 and a wii. Most likely would've never guessed the Xbox One couldn't be jailbroken. You taught me something new today. If you ever have a chance, could you make a video about the Wii Mini... doesn't even have to be modding; if it is, the exploit is over Bluetooth which has been very annoying to reach success.

Well that didnt age Well..

the only thing that I can think of is if you used an internet connection that had the update website blocked then the console would not be able to update every time it booted and therefore be vulnerable to exploits.

"The low price that the series x is currently selling for" Me: * looking around at scalpers selling it for $1,000 *

I also wonder if the move to online stores, removal of disc drives, and game "rental" has gone a lot of the way to disincentivise pirates. If you price a game at £70 brand new, a lot of people can't afford that. But if you make it available for £10-£15 a month along with a bunch of other stuff, then the market is far more accessible for the "easy" route and significantly smaller for the time and effort of a pirate mod.

your channel will surely go above 1 millions subs, so good man

One thing I know about hackers is they always find a way.

This video was so well narrated. You cleaned up on the matter. Never knew about the unsigned code. It might be the decisive factor in my not going the Sony way this generation . Thanks!

Dont forget that there is a model of the Xbox 360 that is currently unhackable. The 2015 versions of the Xbox 360 can't be hacked because the reset pin on the main chip is unaccessible and some other solder points are not available for it, making the Xbox 360 E, specifically the model from 2015, the first retail disc based console to survive any kind of hack attempt made till this day... Well.. I'm not sure if hacking the disc drive would allow it to read backups, but i hope that you get my point.

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Pirates have always benefited from super smart people who just wanted to run homebrew. You take away their motivation to do so (like with dev mode) and they won’t dedicate time to helping pirates out.

The Xbox 360 is still hard as hell to mod. Way beyond my skill level. I bought mine from Masnart. This thing is a masterpiece. It has virtually every physical and digital title that released

That OG blade dashboard on the 360 brings back such good memories. Marble Blast Ultra and Geometry Wars 2 were so fun to play.

What a great way you explained it. Really good video

I think the main reason why there is not a hack is because pirates have no reason to do that. Xbox already offers a bunch of games with Xbox pass and the console has a option to basically run emulators so that part also won't try to fo anything there. Most modders and hackers want to either go for playstation or pc, and in the case of playstation they have found ways but is because they want to hack that system and the only reason why Sony has survived this attacks is because they pay when they found any failures in the system

Xbox One/Series X not being jailbroken is the only reason why I never bought one. The moment it gets jailbroken one day (if it happens), I am going to get one. Imagine hacked backwards compatibility managed by the community of dedicated fans. So many potential performance improvements for Xbox 360 games plus the best way to upscale and play original Xbox games. I really hope one day it will be possible.

the sega saturn took 20 years to get hacked so we still got time before we can officially call the xbox one unhackable

So-called e-fuses worked that way (via electrically overloading components) back then in the 80s and the 90s. Nowadays it's all digital, those bits (called OTP bits = one-time programmable) are programmable as any other bit on flash, EEPROM, whatever... except it's an one-way process - if you set a bit, you can't unset it later without physically milling a chip and exposing the die to UV, risking physical damage to the die itself.

I'm so happy that I own a jailbroken ps4 pro

Jailbroken Xbox=Gaming PC.

Loved the video mate. Very Entertaining

Well all I can say is “gaming pc + dodi” instead. Great video as usual, man.

Developer mode did more for stopping hacking than anything else.

Exactly! the best combat to piracy is to offer a better service than the pirates. when spotify and netflix hit the scene people couldnt be bothered pirating because for a few bucks a month you didnt get virus', everything was top quality and it streamed fast. now there is the problem of too many services and they are all kind of shooting themselves in the foot. I think microsoft knows this and is actually kind of helping the consumer if they pull off the games as a service on all consoles thing.

It's a war of attrition sometimes. The Sega Saturn was eventually hacked 20 years later. There is always going to be new tech, methods and discoveries unforeseen by corporations in combination with the Xbox One eventually have dropped support, the likely hood of it being hacked naturally goes up.

main thing is developer mode, makes people not want to put the effort in... the forcing updates when you start up a new console also helps against exploits in the firmware, but not so much if there is more of a hardware exploit like with the 360

I'm waiting for the 9.00 ps4 jailbreak so I can turn my ps4 into a pc by installing Linux

I can’t have a stock console. I have to be bad in order to have fun lmao. Keep making videos. No other videos like these on YT

There could be a way to access system falls through the Kodi app which was originally used to put applications for watching movies and stuff and possibly if someday they could use that as an exploit because you can get into your systems files a lot differently and do different things with that application

just got recommended this video as a Irishmen myself i enjoyed the video a lot keep it up! From the USA

People have hacked the console. They're just keeping it secret how they did it. Look at Call of Duty leaderboards.

Wise Person Once Said "When theres a Will.. There's A Way"

I feel like this is a bit of a shot in the foot for the preservation of latter-Xbox games. Sure, most of their good games have PC ports that’ll hold up as long as there’s no massive hardwire or Windows paradigm shift, but bad games like ones made for the Kinect (ESPECIALLY the Xbox One-exclusive Kinect games, the Xbox One X can barely even play those games) are in serious danger of being lost to time.

It's funny seeing all the Xbox fanboys in the comments proud that their console can't be jailbroken.... Give me a break... You wish y'all could get games for free.

As you concluded that the latest Xbox could not be hacked because it makes regular updates mandatory and has been built with customised silicon with security in mind and by the time, a hack is found, the console is not produced any more or reaches its end of life, I reckon that the hacking can still find the workaround for e-fuses, drilling holes in the right spots even before connecting the console to the Internet, eventually finding a hack and root for the console.

Great video man, I think Xbox One will be the first console that wasn't hacked in 10 years after announcement

I was wondering the same thing as to why Sony's consoles can be soft modded within a few years but even to jb the x360 you have to hard mod. You explained it all great vid

Recently took apart my Series S to clean up old thermal paste and lay down a fresh application. Scoping out the board, I saw six solder points labeled debug, and it got me thinking. But, I don’t want to mess up my Xbox.

One possible way to get around the first time turned on forced downloading of firmware would be to spoof it on an intranet with a server that pretended to be the Microsoft server. I'm not saying it would be easy but just an idea.

I think the gamepass plays a big role in that too. The ability to play recent game at a low price is what would motivate me to stay legal.

gr8 vid man video idea : gaming on a crt

Me just peacefully modding my Vita while listening to this

The developer mode was a step in the right direction but its also stupid because you pay for access to it but then people have been locked out of it for not sending updates of your work to Microsoft. How ever people have found ways to run emulators outside of developer mode now.

The Xbox One isn't unhackable, nothing ever is. What Microsoft cleverly did was up the ante on security and then remove 90% of the motivations and reasoning behind trying to crack said security. I am sure however, that once these things go away and the Xbox one is all but history in Microsoft's books, we will see many an exploit for it

I remember jtags and rghs people paying almost 1,000 a year for Xbl kvs and stuff like that mw2 and mw3 modded lobby’s were the days I remember getting into a modded lobby and getting max prestige best moment ever never got banned never paid nothing that was just crazy

Your video is very "complete" and answers much more questions that the main title is going to ask...

People don't want to jailbreak an XBox, there's no such a thing as an XBox hacking scene right now. It's as simple as getting a PC.

Thank you for making this video. I always wondered why there was never a Jailbreak for the Xbox One/Series X. However I wouldn’t be surprised if someone has jailbroken the Xbox One and they maybe are just keeping it private to ensure Microsoft won’t know about that way it won’t get patched but for now we can just speculate.

There’s one way to get around updating a console if they made a home brew tool where they could spoof the version it’s on. Just like how u can with a ps3

The only around this is something similar as xbox360 but also amend the booting code to disable updates so it will by pass the force update. Custom server address to by pass Microsoft servers for playing online games can be done and has been proven previously when people by passed iOS activation on pc.

Everyone I know who hacks consoles simply doesn't want to spend so much money on them to begin with. And everyone I know is switching to PC because they are tired of the always online bullshit. And we get all of the games worth having on PC anyways. Now if I could just get more people to ditch winblows for linux...

I bought a series s a half a year ago with the mind set of setting up emulators on dev mode. However, when I found out you can run emulators on retail mode, I was very happy. I can play old and new games without consistently changing the console from retail mode to dev mode. So I'm wondering how it was possible to get the emulators on retail mode?

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Just pick up two Xbox One X's or Series X's or One X and one series X and put the one of the X's on dev mode and have the other one on standard no need to hack it when you just got to pay a small fee to unlock dev mode you can do whatever you want there with the exception of modifying the software titles made for the console That's what I did I have two Xbox One X's one's on dev mode I have all kinds of unsigned code and games on there while the other one has normal stuff. That's not to say that there won't be some kind of breakthrough eventually in the future I'm sure there will but dev mode is a pretty good deal honestly.

with dev mode going away. i think this will cause more more people to find exploits in the xbox one / seires

Only reason why I want to jailbreak my xbox one, is to unlock some FH2 achievements that are unlockable because the game was sunset and the servers shut down.

My Question is the jailbreak discovered for PS4 worked on PS4 Pro as well or it took several years for finding new Exploit for it...2nd I know there will be a possible jailbreak for ps5...On eBay I find Extremely cheap network banned Blu ray ps5 on low firmware when the jailbreak come out should I Buy a Network banned PS5 and later jailbreak it?

Where there's a will there's a way. The back and forth that was seen with the Xbox 360 portrays this perfectly, mod-update-mod-update, so on. It's only been pushed more underground now, between the legalities changing and more stringent antipiracy policies.

xbox one is the best console for this very reason 🔥 combine this with games that dont have crossplay and cross input you have the most balanced gaming experience in this day and age. CrossfireX comes out in a week on console and everyone HAS to play on controller and theres no hackers. sure there is xims and cronus but thats a different story. Thanks for this great reference video cheers! 🥂

its come to a point now with most games being online piracy is more hassle than its worth

"Life uh uh finds a way" - Peter Griffin

the gamepass alone did a ton of good for this console, if only it were cheaper for pooer countries that would be absolute win for everyone , combine that with ID check to prevent vpn abuse and its done deal.

sounds like a good thing, until you take into account for how limited navigation is. take roblox for example; the app used to run it removes essentially all of the features of roblox and renders most games unplayable. this concept is true in several games and apps, not to mention monopoly price hikes on other things

Now we need to wait 🎉

Very informative!

Remember folks: if you cannot mod a console that requires you to be online, it will be worthless once they stop supporting it; and they will stop supporting it.

Good clip, didn't even cross my mind that the XB1 hadn't been jailbroken. ( P.S it's disincentivise not deincentivise. )

There’s always a back door 🚪 to sneak in to

Dev mode is pretty much like having jailbreak also apparently emulators are on the store. Also you actually need a xbox account no matter if you have x1 or xsx etc...

Wait there's a way to get emulators on my Xbox series x without modding!? Well I need to look this up right the fuck now.

Since Microsoft released a memory card for the Xbox one, it could probably be hacked

Another funny thing they did with the Xbox 360. The first (out of 3) bootloaders was actually stored directly in the cpu itself.

So if updates cease on the xbox one then there is a slight chance of the modding community to jailbreak it, but there are other countermeasures currently in play so the chances of succeeding are still minimal?

Shame Microsoft don’t have the same track record for Windows 😂

It's so sad that the xbox one has never been hacked, eventually the last xbox one will die out, as all hardware does, and future generations will never be able to play the huge variety of wonderful console exclusives. Piracy has been, and continues to be the only way to preserve systems, and I don't see that changing any time soon.

I honestly plan to get the Xbox 360 just for the nostalgia of it but honestly I don't really plan on hacking it unless I get a Xbox 360 that is hackable via softmodding (I absolutely hate hardmodding as it makes things permanent and anything that has to do with the physical console as I have zero experience in that field) Anyway, this has certainly been a interesting video to watch lol

awesome video, didn't know any of this.

I addition on Xbox One Microsoft had a policy to not trust any data that wasn’t coming from an encrypted source, so you couldn’t do a man in the middle attack either. Microsoft have done a great job in keeping their console safe. 💚