TL;DR: cryptography and secure hardware (think TPM)
This is a very interesting talk from Microsoft about how they made Xbox immune to physical attacks (modding) like you proposed. Now they are working on getting this tech into regular computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
Of course, we don't know if the solution Mercedes used is as robust. For all we know it can be hacked in 1 minute.
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TL;DR: cryptography and secure hardware (think TPM)
This is a very interesting talk from Microsoft about how they made Xbox immune to physical attacks (modding) like you proposed. Now they are working on getting this tech into regular computers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7VwtOrwceo
Of course, we don't know if the solution Mercedes used is as robust. For all we know it can be hacked in 1 minute.
reply