Hahah yea, the xbox 360 had some pretty impressive security... Apart from being able to activate JTAG on older xbox's, the security were wild from a software point-of-view. However, even the exploit found there, was unable to be completely patched away by them (as it lied in the processor-architecture (= how it handled pulses on the RST pin of different lengths))
Also, I would definitely not say the security of the PS3 was botched. After all, despite the mistake in the signing of their firmware being huge, it after all took 4(ish?) years to break that security, which made the PS3 the longest-lasting non-jailbroken console of the last generation
Honestly, regardless of how big the mistake on Sonys part were (it was (very) big), I still consider the feat by fail0verflow of finding that flaw in the crypto and mapping the PS3 system and chain-of-trust, as one of the most impressive done on the PS3 scene (ECDSA is state-of-the-art cryptology, they just implemented it wrong)...
The counter by Sony (moving everything from the metldr to lv0) was nicely thinking as well
... They were just dun goofed when the lv0 loader was comprised, as they had no more higher modifiable to go on the old ps3's
Note: Yes, that makes me moist as well :3
Edit: Those e-fuses was pretty crazy
Made me lose a good Jasper Xbox once due to too high firmware ._. The first console i ever soldered also... And it went horribly, so maybe its good it became useless for me
I botched the soldering so much that the solder-pad broke off, and I had to scratch the trace free and solder the wire to that >_<
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13685979/xBOX SOLDER IMAGES/2012-10-27 02.44.23.jpg
...Something cool came out of the spareparts though!
http://www.se7ensins.com/forums/thr...0-controller-wireless-receiver-for-pc.668839/
I can now connect xbox controllers to my PC wirelessly! Each time me and my friends plays Mario Party 3 on an emulator, we do that