Hacking SX OS contains brick code!

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Not sure what I feel about this. The obvious thing to compare it to would be the gateway stuff ( https://gbatemp.net/threads/warning-gateway-team-bricks-card-on-purpose.360568/ ), however that seemed far less well handled than this appears to be at this point.

Will have to both refresh myself on the gateway specifics and learn more of what goes here. I am certainly not a fan of bricking code being out there like that though.
 
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Rasa39 said:
The gateway team said the same thing about it only affecting "pirates" and that it wouldn't harm legit users. Whether they were legit or not, reports did come in from geniune users who got bricked on gateway. Either way brick code is a bad idea even if it only affects a small number of legit users.
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It shouldn't affect any normal users. It hasn't yet, so why care?
 
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you guys are really gullible

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They should provide a way for lambda user to unlock it with console specific payload.

I mean there is maybe a tiny chance it trigger the wrong person and there it will be a pain in ass for both of seller and buyer.
Imagine someone who brought it and can prove it got bricked.. (I doubt it will but being caution and ready for all it's always better :)
 
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Sophie-bear said:
Sorry, but locking people out of their own device with a password is malicious, no matter what the reason is. Especially when it's someone selling piracy-enabling devices doing it. Damn.
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Yeah, but if I'm selling a shady device, and I don't want people reversing it, I'd do it.
It's like protecting your drug den with guns.
If Nintendo bricked hackers for hacking, that's different, they would get sued.

No one will sue tx lol (although Nintendo probably want to)
 
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13_Switch_Hacker_37 said:
Sorry, but "it's not the kind of thing to mistrigger" isn't good enough for me.

I bet the Gateway devs didn't think it would mistrigger either.
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More importantly, it shouldn't matter how it's triggered. It's still a shady thing to do.

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Yeah, but if I'm selling a shady device, and I don't want people reversing it, I'd do it.
It's like protecting your drug den with guns.
If Nintendo bricked hackers for hacking, that's different, they would get sued.

No one will sue tx lol (although Nintendo probably want to)
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I know why they did it, but they're just making themselves look bad by doing it.
 
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