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mschuster91yesterday at 4:58 PM1 replyview on HN

That shit is something you still find in the gambling world. Many of the modern one-armed bandits have HSMs with a loooot of protections, including batteries with drill through protections and god knows what else, although it's less used for anti-piracy but more to prevent tax fraud.


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gosub100yesterday at 7:12 PM

It's to prevent cheating! If the roms weren't cryptographically signed, people would "homebrew" their own "mods" lol.