Hacking news things are reporting on the hardware exploit

[reminon]

You asked where it said it can be fixed, I showed you the quote from the article.

You read again, I never said what, where or how they can fix it. All I did was show you where they said it can be fixed in the article.

You read his reply again, he said OP. Which are clearly not.

 

[Resaec]

It would be a double edged sword though. If they left that fuse unburned and then the RCM vulnerability was discovered, the patching function could have been used to permanently bypass signature checks.

I thought "I will shit myself" made it obvious that I was sarcastic.
That post was sarcasm.

 

[WiiUBricker]

You asked where it said it can be fixed, I showed you the quote from the article

Which I included in my quote in the first place and then you replied with nothing but the same quote I quoted. I swear trolls these days are getting lazier and lazier..

 

[BL4Z3D247]

You read his reply again, he said OP. Which are clearly not.

Really? Then why was I quoted?

And I saw he was talking about the OP which I know I am not, but he was directly talking to me basically stating what I quoted from the article wasn't what the OP said which I had never gave an opinion on, I just simply pointed out the part the OP was referring to in the article because WiiUBricker asked.

Which I included in my quote in the first place and then you replied with nothing but the same quote I quoted. I swear trolls these days are getting lazier and lazier..

Not trolling, but consider foot in mouth.

I truly didn't see that you quoted, my bad.

 

[softwareengineer]

They make it sound like it is a "risk" to own a switch. it isn't like a PC, where accidentally installing/downloading a virus is a huge issue. Nobody is going to accidentally stick a paper clip in to accidentally short pin 10 to accidentally connect the switch to the computer to accidentally run a binary they accidentally downloaded from a website they accidentally found

Yes exactly! lol! Every switch is now at risk of being permanently owned by it's true owner instead of the company that sold it to them which tries to maintain true ownership of the device, and just let the person use it while trying to dictate exactly in every detail how something that they sold and that is no longer in their possession can or can't be used. So either you're selling the device and transferring ownership to that person, or you keep the device all to yourself and deal with your own restrictions that you place on yourself on your device!! Oh what's that mr company, you wouldn't restrict yourself that much with your own thing you have ownership of, that's yours? PRECISELY THE POINT! And neither will we!

And that's exactly what's going to happen, we can now get an untethered version working, and even find a way to patch it for ourselves while retaining our full access(trustzone, kernel, full root), and be rockin' and rollin'! I think unthethered is possible, even if it requires another exploit or combination of them. (they've said there are multiple) If not, if it is the slightly lesser awesome situation, then we shouldn't leave it up to the TXec group. We should design and build our own open source hardware PCB device (because I don't think theirs is going to be open sourced) that upon holding a certain button combination (ex. like the neccessary volume up, and maybe also the right joycon trigger or some other button) it will boot into rcm mode and over usb push the payload automatically to boot the bootloader that will then boot (or allow you to choose which OS to then boot), ex between linux or CFW (when custom firmware is available) or whatever OS's you have installed to that sd card.
So for example if you just had custom firmware on that sd card. You would hold the special combination of buttons while booting and it'll load the cfw and you choose your emunand or sysnand or you could just boot normally and it'll be the stock version of firmware of your sysnand that you currently still have it at. I think that would ease the validity of modification chips or devices in people's mind if their was an open sourced hardware version, that anyone could build themselves or order to be made! As that way it's fully transparent what it actually is and what it does and all that it does. Basically would feel untethered... You know what actually make it load the rcm mode and exploit automatically and the button combination for stock! Then it would truly feel untethered!

That's usually the case at least though that we give ourselves full access and then patch to prevent anyone else from getting it, but if this is really unpatchable in every way even for us, then at least have some sort of tamper proofness to it so you'd know if someone installed malware on it to use on you (I think maybe what the slight risk they are talking about is). Or maybe it would delete your data and/or brick it on them, so you know for sure someone tried to do something. Yea typically we have a way to patch it so the thing we used to gain our access can't be used again to give someone else full access too ,so that might be a slight issue in this case if the truly unpatchable nature of this one is so.

That is just the way it is though anytime you want to take back control and take back responsibility of your own stuff, you have care for it better and you have to take responsibly for it's security yourself, but it's worth it and no one can take it from you if you truly have done those two things! It's just like taking responsibility of securing your own bitcoin and holding the private keys yourself, rather than entrusting someone else with that privilege. Sure if you didn't secure them well enough and lost them you only have yourself to blame, but on the other hand entrusting someone else with your private keys and they either lose them the coins or they get stolen, then there's nothing you can do about it. Sure maybe if the company is honest and still has the record of you actually having it they might remburse you, but still those particular coins are gone in that theft transaction or keys lost, and that still is the thing you couldn't do anything about when trusting someone else with such important of a thing. With yourself you can do something, you can make sure they're secure and when you do then you know no one can take them from you! Because you effectively prevented anyone from being able to, rather than leaving a way for them to be able to.