Last week, I touched on a comment, made by Andre Vrignaud, Director of Technical Strategy for Xbox Live during the Xbox 360 presentation at the GDC Europe 2005 in London. Vrignaud basically said it will be hard to hack the Xbox 360. BBC Online has a piece, which spawned a piece on Joystiq on how Microsoft plans to make its next generation games console, the Xbox 360, as difficult as possible to hack.

I am going to assume that Vrignaud is challenging folks to try to hack the Xbox 360. That 'you can't' psychology."

Xbox engineer Chris Satchell, says the Xbox 360 will have security built directly into the hardware.

"One of the reasons we went with custom hardware design for all our silicon is that it allows us to build security at the silicon level," he told the BBC News website.

"There are going to be levels of security in this box that the hacker community has never seen before."

Part of the motivation behind this is to prevent people from using the 360 to watch pirated films or TV shows.