how long before they will introduce special bad sectors on floppy disks, - sorry, wrong epoch, - special half-faulty components required for proper execution in chips to disable chip simulation/reverse engineering.
This effectively already exists. The Xbox One SOC apparently monitors its own voltage and shuts down / doesn't function if it falls out of spec [1] as part of a totally OTT suite of anti-engineer techniques.
As an aside, I hate all of this. If someone made an open console, I'd buy it in a second. I realise that's probably my computer running linux next to me, but still...
Yes, there are schemes that deliberately exploit difficult-to-reproduce manufacturing defects, for things like fingerprinting / making hard-to-clone things.
The general field is called PUF (physically uncloneable functions)
I’ll never forget the crack that I downloaded back in the days. It came with a PDF or image of a CD you were supposed to print, so you could drill through the burned CD at exactly the proper position. This was supposed to defeat the hardware dongle the software otherwise required. Can’t remember what software it was and never tried it to find out if this was a prank or actually worked, but I loved that as a kid :D
sannysanoff|4 years ago
azalemeth|4 years ago
As an aside, I hate all of this. If someone made an open console, I'd buy it in a second. I realise that's probably my computer running linux next to me, but still...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
xyzzy123|4 years ago
The general field is called PUF (physically uncloneable functions)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_unclonable_function
Semaphor|4 years ago
johntb86|4 years ago