14 DAY TRIAL // If you are passionate about console hacking, know that 23C3 just took place. You know what 23C3 is, because you are a committed console hacker/modder, right? If not, here is the description of someone who attended this event, Julian from Selectparks:
"23C3 was more a hackers mecca than an ethically pointed security conference; a festival celebrating media and technology reclamation where the right to repurpose and dissect technology is considered inseparable from the right to learn from it."
This event took place in Europe, at the Berlin Conference Center in Germany. Over 4,500 people participated in the event throughout 4 days. As regarding console hacking, there was a lecture there on this issue and by the looks of it, the Xbox 360 is the most secure console on the market: "Unlike it's predecessor, the XBox 360 is considered very secure in that all code run on it must be run in a hypervisor, a virtual machine of sorts that is designed to maintain system integrity through regulating what can and can't run on the thing. It doesn't allow any unsigned code, so, unless it has the official stamp from MS, you're out of luck. The 360 is the holy grail of console hacking right now."
The Nintendo Wii was also addressed as regarding hacks and this Nintendo console is not as secure as the 360: "It turns out the Wii is an interesting target for running homebrew code but it's not all roses. The Wii has what the speakers consider two 'back doors', both using a strange undocumented serial port actually built into the bottom of the Wii's DVD drive. ".
Finally, the PS3 came into discussion, and contrary to what everyone thought, the Sony console is not that exposed to hacking: "While this makes it easy to run homebrew code, it's not without its limitations: no access to the GPU or graphics memory, so you wont be able to make 3D content for the PS3 and expect it to run at any worthwhile speed. All 3D rendering will be done in software, not on the card. "