Video game security has always been a moving target, as consoles evolved to full-blown computing platforms locked down with layers of protection — but for every lock ever invented, there has always been someone determined to pick it. Being a video game fan myself, I never gave much thought to any of this until I became an engineer and started diving into security. Consoles are embedded systems at their core, and the history of how their security was built, broken, and rebuilt is full of lessons ...