Hacking The maker of the iOS 10.2 jailbreak managed to hack the Switch

[smiba]

Luca (qwertyoruiopz) is a known troll to the jailbreak community and loves to do things like this.

He actually is very capable of making proper hacks though, but I doubt this was a serious tweet.

 

[jakibaki]

Luca (qwertyoruiopz) is a known troll to the jailbreak community and loves to do things like this.

He actually is very capable of making proper hacks though, but I doubt this was a serious tweet.

This looks pretty serious through. It's known that the webkit on the switch is very much outdated and the exploit that he uses has been public for a while.

 

[nolimits59]

Luca (qwertyoruiopz) is a known troll to the jailbreak community and loves to do things like this.

He actually is very capable of making proper hacks though, but I doubt this was a serious tweet.

I personnaly take it as "half a troll", it does have a webkit exploite, but well, like stated before, PS4 have one too, but nothing to work with. Thats things are only doors, but they don't lead to anything, it's a door in a middle of a park, it means nothing without anything behind.

 

[Alkéryn]

I personnaly take it as "half a troll", it does have a webkit exploite, but well, like stated before, PS4 have one too, but nothing to work with. Thats things are only doors, but they don't lead to anything, it's a door in a middle of a park, it means nothing without anything behind.

Actually it is a door with a wall behind, and if you want to hack the switch, you have to drill holes into that wall
now let's see if it is made of butter or concrete

 

[smiba]

This looks pretty serious through. It's known that the webkit on the switch is very much outdated and the exploit that he uses has been public for a while.

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Do you seriously think he just grabbed the old iOS 9.3.x exploit and quickly made it work for the switch?
Thats just not how hacks like these work, without proper coding it just overwrites a part of the memory and most likely causes the Switch to crash/reboot/freeze.

 

[souler92]

*goes to take a drill, and put holes in my switch


am i homebrewing my switch now?

 

[nolimits59]

Actually it is a door with a wall behind, and if you want to hack the switch, you have to drill holes into that wall
now let's see if it is made of butter or concrete

Thats reminds me of theses fuckin cunts doors in DQ8 x).

 

[Alkéryn]

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Do you seriously think he just grabbed the old iOS 9.3.x exploit and quickly made it work for the switch?
Thats just not how hacks like these work, without proper coding it just overwrites a part of the memory and most likely causes the Switch to crash/reboot/freeze.

It is a webkit exploit so it is cross compatible

 

[nolimits59]

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Do you seriously think he just grabbed the old iOS 9.3.x exploit and quickly made it work for the switch?
Thats just not how hacks like these work, without proper coding it just overwrites a part of the memory and most likely causes the Switch to crash/reboot/freeze.

You must be "retarded", do you understand or even tried to search what a webkit exploit is ?

edit: sry for the harsh, but damn, before stating such things, at least TRY !

 

[smiba]

You must be "retarded", do you understand or even tried to search what a webkit exploit is ?

edit: sry for the harsh, but damn, before stating such things, at least TRY !

Are you dense? You CANT just hack a device and successfully break out of a webkit process without changing the code in a way its actually usable.

If you truly believe he hacked the switch simply by executing pretty much exactly the same code he used for iOS I'd recommend never talking about this subject again.
There is no all around code that works for every device, the principle might be the same, but the code execution is different.

 

[souler92]

i think he used the konami code. it works everywhere!!

 

[hobbledehoy899]

iOS and FreeBSD (which the Switch's operating system is a fork of) are both Unix-derived, so... this isn't out of the realm of possibility.

 

[jakibaki]

Are you dense? You CANT just hack a device and successfully break out of a webkit process without changing the code in a way its actually usable.

If you truly believe he hacked the switch simply by executing pretty much exactly the same code he used for iOS I'd recommend never talking about this subject again.
There is no all around code that works for every device, the principle might be the same, but the code execution is different.

If he actually broke out of the sandbox I would be with you but he's "just" hijacking webkit which is pretty similar on iPhones and the switch, both being 64bit-arm-devices and running webkit. It's perfectly believable that he, being pretty good at this kind of stuff (already did it for iOS), managed to port this in a reasonable time.

 

[nolimits59]

Are you dense? You CANT just hack a device and successfully break out of a webkit process without changing the code in a way its actually usable.

If you truly believe he hacked the switch simply by executing pretty much exactly the same code he used for iOS I'd recommend never talking about this subject again.
There is no all around code that works for every device, the principle might be the same, but the code execution is different.

he didnt hacked anything, he never said that, and webkit exploit are not "hacking" stuff at anypoint, like i said, they're entry doors.

Webkit exploits are code, use to be runned on a browser that use Webkit libs, it was made for safari but is used in a shitload of portables devices browsers and other stuff.
It have a shitload of exploit every years... some useable for some devices, some that can't ect ect, but from time to time, webkit exploits that works on a browser like, i will make a wild guess, iOs 9.3, may work on a browser like... a simple that-didnt-was-inteded-to-be-used browser of a switch. It's normal, even the PS4 have workings Webkit exploit. There is no big deal about that.
But the fact that the Switch is well known and a lot of people have eyes on it may make it more interesting for hackers to works on it,
THAT stuff, xill make quite some people looking into it...

 

[RednaxelaNnamtra]

he didnt hacked anything, he never said that, and webkit exploit are not "hacking" stuff at anypoint, like i said, they're entry doors.

Webkit exploits are code, use to be runned on a browser that use Webkit libs, it was made for safari but is used in a shitload of portables devices browsers and other stuff.
It have a shitload of exploit every years... some useable for some devices, some that can't ect ect, but from time to time, webkit exploits that works on a browser like, i will make a wild guess, iOs 9.3, may work on a browser like... a simple that-didnt-was-inteded-to-be-used browser of a switch. It's normal, even the PS4 have workings Webkit exploit. There is no big deal about that.
But the fact that the Switch is well known and a lot of people have eyes on it may make it more interesting for hackers to works on it,
THAT stuff, xill make quite some people looking into it...

It not importend what you exploit to say its hacking, so this is hacking too, even if its just limited to the browser sandbox.
Also this type of exploits will allow people to start searching for a way to get deeper into the system, so it's a needed first step and the first hack of the first layer for custom code execution, even if the switch was not the main taget of this specific exploit.

 

[yacepi15]

I hope this is a fake. It's very sad if they are able to exploit it (leaving a door open-wide for a ROM loader) in just a week. Today, people doesnt care about pirating anything. If i were who discovered it, i would shut up or send the exploit to Nintendo and get some money.
And... Why theese things only happen with Nintendo?

 

[jakibaki]

I hope this is a fake. It's very sad if they are able to exploit it (leaving a door open-wide for a ROM loader) in just a week. Today, people doesnt care about pirating anything. If i were who discovered it, i would shut up or send the exploit to Nintendo and get some money.
And... Why theese things only happen with Nintendo?

This is very very far from a rom loader. We won't be seeing that for a very long time.

 

[Cortador]

There is really people that still think piracy kill the console ?
You mean, like pirating killed Rolling stones, or piracy killed cinema ? OR MORE !!! Im sure the car killed trains, bus and subways 100% sure...
You're naive af guys...

PS2, Wii, DS, 3DS, alllllll of them hacked till their core, and pretty fairly "in early console life" and they're the most sold consoles and with the most third party titles we ever see on every consoles... but yet "piracy kills consoels and third party support", you're freakin blind...

The marketing, and "attractive" aspect of a console is 50% independant of it's piracy possibilites, the other 50% is because DS and Wiis sales exploded with the hacks, and games came with that... it never killed a console, and BTW, SONY did killed the dreamcast with the heaviest marketing ever scene at the time.

PSP was by far the easiest console to pirate though. I remember back in 1.5 firmware days all you had to do was download, copy it to the memory stick and play.

A lot more accessible than having to ask mommy and daddy to purchase a DS card on a shady internet website.

 

[Arras]

I hope this is a fake. It's very sad if they are able to exploit it (leaving a door open-wide for a ROM loader) in just a week. Today, people doesnt care about pirating anything. If i were who discovered it, i would shut up or send the exploit to Nintendo and get some money.
And... Why theese things only happen with Nintendo?

It doesn't leave any doors wide open. A webkit exploit is potentially a neat start, but by itself it doesn't really mean anything.

 

[Mr. Wizard]

LOL the crapple fanbois are shitting on him for playing with the switch instead of fixing the iOS jailbreak hahaha!