I highly doubt we will ever see a iosu for the Wii U, the console has been out now for 5 years and no one has been able to successfully crack it, one group said they hacked it and then said they weren't going to release it, you don't have to be Einstein to realise that there was never a hack made, as for the salt team this is to them if you actually exist, put your money where your mouth is, show us some hard evidence as to the progress that you have made with IOSU, it's not hard to do a you tube video or make a thread on here to substantiate your progress to the wider community, at a educated guess another false misleading rumour.
as said above by TheZander you are spot on the money with your comment "because there should be a ton of people who would want to mod the console themselves like they do with the PS3. Willing to solder a teensy to their wiiu. I just don't get why people who don't have iosu access but have the capabilities to do hardware mods haven't cracked it. "
the thing is if someone was going to make a mod chip style mod it would have been done long ago same with a sofmod hack..
Sorry if I have offended the small minded, but this is the way I see it..
There is a such thing as an IOSU exploit. There has been vulnerabilities public on wiiubrew since June. I have no doubt that
someone has an exploit - there are keys and things to prove it.
As for SALT's quietness, it's actually perfectly reasonable for them to not to make videos and the like. In the past the community has shown, time and time again, that they get hyped up about this sort of thing. At this point, a video would just cement everything in everyone's minds; and if SALT turns out to be unable to deliver this would only intensify the backlash they'd receive.
I am not saying "if SALT turns out to be lying". What I'm saying is that they may find themselves in a situation I've been in several times before - a project going well, maybe even in its final stages before something gies awfully wrong. Skills prove to little, hard drives die, interest dies out, personal stuff... any number of things may leave a developer unable or unwilling to deliver a product. Right now, they could probably get away with an apology. However, if they'd been releasing vidoes and things for the last month (videos that "prove" the product,
not videos showing the development process) people would assume (as they have in the past) that the exploit is "done" and work is being put into "trivial polish" without realising the amount of smoke and mirrors that often goes into such videos. With this mindset, a failure to deliver would cause an immense backlash,
especially if there is nothing released. You can see how it's in SALT's best interest to keep things vauge until they're sure of a release.
Of course, the other way to avoid such a situation is to open-source the project from the beginning, but SALT has good reason for not doing that, so that won't work for them.
Worst comes to worst you can still be pretty darn certain of an IOSU exploit. Even if SALT doesn't work out, (leak incoming)
there are other people with working PoCs building ROP chains and things in public if you know where to look right now, as we speak.
Oh look here's what I was talking about