Xbox One Details: Clarification for the Haters

[adriane23]

crissindahouse said:

adriane23 said:

crissindahouse said:
btw something i just thought about, how does my console know that 24 hours are over? is that something in the xbox system? isn't that super easy to hack so that the "counter" believes an year is an hour or something?

I'm pretty sure it's determined by the last time the system made a call to a MS server. Can't (easily) hack that.

yeah but if my console wouldn't be online it could also not call the server that 24 hours are over. so it is a internal clock in the console which will block the console for games after those 24 hours and i thought that internal clock should be easy to hack but probably not, they wouldn't have that then lol

Possibly. Though I think the internal clock will check a timestamp the server call makes to see if 24 hours has elapsed. If the timestamp value can be forceably altered, Microsoft's servers will most likely have a similar timestamp for each console and make simultaneous checks to see whether the timestamp value is different than the last time your system checks in. If so, they probably won't be able to stop a hacker from accessing games after a 24 hour period as long as they don't try to access the servers.

I could be wrong of course. I didn't major in security.