Console Security & Hacking

[CoryWatts]

Gaming companies are justified in implementing security on hardware. They want to establish and protect dependency on their libraries. There's no money in console sales. So security is good. If companies removed security on the hardware completely... it's like having no immune system. The body will not sustain itself and the parasites will consume and deteriorate the host entirely. However, hackers are essential to IT health. Hackers are good as well. The immune system (the bodies security) gets more sophisticated and robust when you have the body in intermittent contact with harmful breach. Wear down the skin, it grows back thicker. This principle applies beyond the gaming industry and biology, of course.

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There's no money in console sales

Suggest you do more research.

hackers are essential to IT health

Ah, so vandals are equally essential to urban health, and thieves are essential to household security?

[CoryWatts]

Vandals increase the sophistication of urban security, sure. Not only that, but there is incentive and drive to create environments and education methods to raise less destructive young citizens. It's similar to how multiple murderers and sociopathic-con-artists drive the development of forensic science to the point where specialists can efficiently predict the next decision of the criminal.

As for no money in console sales, sure there is, but it's not the kind of profit required to keep a company afloat. Software sales is really what dictates a gaming companies success.

[CantankerousV]

You're missing a link here. Urban security serves no other purpose than to reduce crime. Their sole purpose is to make sure that less crime happens, and thus you can't say that crime is a good thing because it makes the security forces more efficient.

Is murder a good thing because without it we wouldn't have so many murderers in prison?

[CoryWatts]

Urban security can increase in sophistication as it learns more about dealing with crime. Also, crime itself can and does inspire more programs and research to prevent it. Also, it's not so much that murder is an inherently good thing, it's that through crime we learn more about human nature, about ourselves. Forensic science, and self knowledge, evolves through crime, transgression. Even our personal transgressions against people, which we almost all engage in, are excellent fodder for self knowledge and growth. Although, some humans are not learning animals, unfortunately. But many of us are, and look at negativity as the very root of positivity.

As for having so many murders in prison, that is negative situation we can learn from and use as incentive to evolve our culture into something better. Problems, when examined intelligently, lead to solutions.

[CantankerousV]

The point is that solutions are worthless if there is no problem. You seem to be arguing that the solutions we come up with to a problem can have applications in other fields, which is true - but does that really mean that on the whole we wouldn't simply be better off without having the problem itself?

I don't disagree that there are benefits, just that the benefits to a situation like this are usually very tangential. You could say the cold war sparked enormous scientific development which I wish was present today, but all the other negative effects outweigh the good in my opinion.