But they DID patch both Tubehax AND Browserhax with a maintenance.
Unless I really misunderstood how the eShop spoof works, I really don't see how it could be difficult to them to patch this. They just need to create a new sort of check upon entrance that didn't exist before, and bye-bye eShop.
IMO, Tubehax and Browserhax weren't really patched. The code that does the check was already there. The youtube app had already been checking for updates since it was on the eshop and nintendo snuck the web browser update check on firmwares 9.9+. So they weren't really patched, they were just notified to not let to user use them until the 3DS receives the latest update. Nintendo probably saw this coming and started doing this on firmware 9.9+.
Now, referring to the eshop, there is a check to see if the current firmware is on the latest version. This could be a client sided check (on your 3ds) or a server sided check (on nintendo's servers). Either way, we are letting the client/server know that we are on the latest firmware and therefore allowing us to access the eshop. Technically speaking, if someone can spoof the youtube app and browser to believe that it has the latest update, we will be able to use Tubehax and Browserhax once again. Of course, no one has done so yet.
Now you can argue that they can technically change everything on their servers, preventing eshop from connecting at all. But if our eshop app cannot even connect, how can it even update our systems? The only way Nintendo can patch this is if Nintendo had seen this since day 1, sort of like what they did to Browserhax. So unless they had code on the 3ds for this since the very first firmware version, they can't really do anything to block our eshop access.
But who knows? Maybe Nintendo has a trick up their sleeves. I highly doubt it though.
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