Let me save you the suspense; the Switch 2 won't get hacked

[Ricken]

The fun isn't whether it's possible, the beauty is the challenge. Someone'll be nuts enough someday.

Sony put a lot less emphasis into security.

If I'm not mistaken, only Nintendo has a goofy semi-recent history of having consoles bypassed with household objects (3DS Magnet, Switch v1 Paperclip)

 

[SuffahBish]

The fun isn't whether it's possible, the beauty is the challenge. Someone'll be nuts enough someday.

If I'm not mistaken, only Nintendo has a goofy semi-recent history of having consoles bypassed with household objects (3DS Magnet, Switch v1 Paperclip)

The Wii was hacked with some tweezers.

 

[Maximumbeans]

The Wii was hacked with some tweezers.

Shall we place bets for Switch 2?
A teaspoon? A bottle opener maybe?

 

[impeeza]

The fun isn't whether it's possible, the beauty is the challenge. Someone'll be nuts enough someday.

If I'm not mistaken, only Nintendo has a goofy semi-recent history of having consoles bypassed with household objects (3DS Magnet, Switch v1 Paperclip)

Wii tweezers

 

[Maximumbeans]

Wii tweezers

Wiizers?

 

[SylverReZ]

tl;dr

Any device is hackable, no matter if they boast about how effective it is; there are always going to be flaws without you knowing until you spend hours tinkering with the hardware and learning about its functionality. Your phone, car, games console-literally anything that is within your posession can be modified.

It could take a year or even more depending on the complexitity, skilled folks need to be involved to make it possible, because without that it mind, it wouldn't be opened.

Wiizers?

Weezer? The band?

 

[grooster]

Shall we place bets for Switch 2?
A teaspoon? A bottle opener maybe?

My goal is to hack it the broken microSD card reader from my Switch 1.

 

[Noctosphere]

Shall we place bets for Switch 2?
A teaspoon? A bottle opener maybe?

a magnet? like the 3DS

 

[BigOnYa]

In the microwave, defrost setting, for 20 seconds, flip, 20 seconds more. Boom! -Jailbroken. My uncle works at Nin***do and told me that's the secret way.

 

[Noctosphere]

In the microwave, defrost setting, for 20 seconds, flip, 20 seconds more. Boom! -Jailbroken

MicroHax is back baby!!!

 

[hippy dave]

In the microwave, defrost setting, for 20 seconds, flip, 20 seconds more. Boom! -Jailbroken. My uncle works at Nin***do and told me that's the secret way.

I don't care if your uncle works at NinDildo

 

[Selfx712]

In the microwave, defrost setting, for 20 seconds, flip, 20 seconds more. Boom! -Jailbroken. My uncle works at Nin***do and told me that's the secret way.

Treid it. Worked briefly. Now my Switch smells like ramen noodles and my microwave is making weird noises.

 

[shadowflare7799]

I'm no computer expert or programmer/hacker but I always believed that whatever was made by man can be cracked by man.

 

[MPRTwice]

"Can my handheld gaming devices get a virus? The short answer is no. Your non-pc gaming devices will never be hacked because no one knows how to run viruses on them from online."

-said in 2006

Then 2024 happened:

https://www.techradar.com/pro/secur...nfects-11-million-devices-here-s-what-we-know

A more general example:

Newton:
-highly regarded physics expert
-came up with many physics concepts
-came up with calculus
-said it will always be impossible for flying craft to exist

Later:

Dayton: The birthplace of aviation

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In the microwave, defrost setting, for 20 seconds, flip, 20 seconds more. Boom! -Jailbroken. My uncle works at Nin***do and told me that's the secret way.

your uncle works at Nintendo? Sheesh, is the economy that bad? If only he can get out of there soon and find happiness in his life! I'm not _that_ desperate for a new job!

 

[impeeza]

https://www.techradar.com/pro/secur...nfects-11-million-devices-here-s-what-we-know

Android is indeed a gaming PC!

 

[MPRTwice]

Android is indeed a gaming PC!

The short answer is yes: a handheld gaming device can be hacked online.

Edit: We could use a smirk icon in the drop down menu.

 

[MRJPGames]

Well, the fact is, there isn't a Switch 2 hack. So in the meantime I'm right and you are wrong.

Period.

Is like I made the claim: "It will never be light outside"
And then people told me why that is obviously a dumb thing to say and I respond with:
"Well the fact is, it's dark outside now. So in the meantime I'm right and you are wrong.

Period."



Only difference is that I'll be wrong in about 12 hours, in your case it might take years if we're unlucky.

 

[janobi]

Is like I made the claim: "It will never be light outside"
And then people told me why that is obviously a dumb thing to say and I respond with:
"Well the fact is, it's dark outside now. So in the meantime I'm right and you are wrong.

Period."



Only difference is that I'll be wrong in about 12 hours, in your case it might take years if we're unlucky.

A broken clock is still right twice a day. Weird analogy, but works for this purpose.

The evidence that devices can be hacked online is already available, I mean geohotz hacked the iphone using just a webpage originally, weird loader with his face on from what I remember. Not technically a handheld gaming device in the traditional sense, but again works for this analogy.

 

[Noctosphere]

A broken clock is still right twice a day. Weird analogy, but works for this purpose.

The evidence that devices can be hacked online is already available, I mean geohotz hacked the iphone using just a webpage originally, weird loader with his face on from what I remember. Not technically a handheld gaming device in the traditional sense, but again works for this analogy.

When it comes to computers, nothing is completly safe. Absolutly nothing. Not even the nuclear weapon passcode.
You can only make the safety better and harder to crack. But everything can be cracked. Everything.
In the case of the Switch 2, cracking it is going to be quite easy for those who can do these shits (reverse engineering). What is going to be harder (much much harder) would be to make the exploit public and user-friendly for all the "mister nobody" like me or other random internet people.

 

[impeeza]

When it comes to computers, nothing is completly safe. Absolutly nothing. Not even the nuclear weapon passcode.
You can only make the safety better and harder to crack. But everything can be cracked. Everything.
In the case of the Switch 2, cracking it is going to be quite easy for those who can do these shits (reverse engineering). What is going to be harder (much much harder) would be to make the exploit public and user-friendly for all the "mister nobody" like me or other random internet people.

Remember the decalogue of the bad guy, the first rule:

* If a bad guy have physical access to your device, is not your device anymore.