Hacking Question Hack a Patched Switch in 2021?

General test No. 1 failed. The Nintendo screen where I assume there would be the exploit, doesn't power on a keyboard until it says Nintendo Switch.

Ughhh. Time for more experimenting.
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. I don't think anyone with zero knowledge of hacking is going to randomly discover an exploit.
 
I'm pretty sure he was being sarcastic. I don't think anyone with zero knowledge of hacking is going to randomly discover an exploit.
Wow, thanks for the encouragement mate.

Exploits are found by accident too. That's why I'm trying to feck around with my switch, because chances are everyone has given up if theirs is IPATCHED.
 
Wow, thanks for the encouragement mate.

Exploits are found by accident too. That's why I'm trying to feck around with my switch, because chances are everyone has given up if theirs is IPATCHED.
Can't recall the last time an exploit for any console was discovered by accident by a non-hacker.
 
just let him try man, you never know
I was trying to do him a favor by not wasting his time. But if you genuinely think someone with no hacking experience is going to discover an exploit that most hackers say is nearly impossible to find, scenes would no longer need professionals

Well a lot of people doubted Rancher17 as well
That was on a different scale. SX OS was technically already cracked because we were able to extract the rommenu but developers weren't interested in patching out SX OS. Developers aren't holding back from hacking the Switch because there isn't interest but because its too difficult.
 
I was trying to do him a favor by not wasting his time. But if you genuinely think someone with no hacking experience is going to discover an exploit that most hackers say is nearly impossible to find, scenes would no longer need professionals
I think that anyone can try to find an exploit even without any knowledge of hacking, they may not find anything useful but they tried and that's what matters.
 
I think that anyone can try to find an exploit even without any knowledge of hacking, they may not find anything useful but they tried and that's what matters.
It's a bit like saying anyone can try to find a cure for cancer, they don't need any knowledge of biology or scientific method, they can just start throwing chemicals together in their kitchen and see what happens.
 
It's a bit like saying anyone can try to find a cure for cancer, they don't need any knowledge of biology or scientific method, they can just start throwing chemicals together in their kitchen and see what happens.
I mean... sure. It's possible. Not likely, but possible.
 
I mean... sure. It's possible. Not likely, but possible.
You can literally try whatever you want, but that doesn't stop it from being a futile waste of your own time :blink:

To extend the analogy, if someone happened, on their thousandth attempt, to throw together the right chemicals and make something that would cure cancer, how would they know it was the one, compared to all the others? They wouldn't have the knowledge or facility to analyze what they had, do any meaningful tests on its action or develop it into something useable. And fiddling randomly with Switch software to see if something bugs out doesn't tell you anything about the structure of the code, whether it could potentially be manipulated to do something more useful than just crash, whether it has the required system privileges to advance access to any of the multiple stages needed to take over a system with modern security.

Speaking of wasting one's own time, this post got a bit long :rofl2: in my defence I'm just sat here waiting for the mail to arrive.
 
You can literally try whatever you want, but that doesn't stop it from being a futile waste of your own time :blink:

To extend the analogy, if someone happened, on their thousandth attempt, to throw together the right chemicals and make something that would cure cancer, how would they know it was the one, compared to all the others? They wouldn't have the knowledge or facility to analyze what they had, do any meaningful tests on its action or develop it into something useable. And fiddling randomly with Switch software to see if something bugs out doesn't tell you anything about the structure of the code, whether it could potentially be manipulated to do something more useful than just crash, whether it has the required system privileges to advance access to any of the multiple stages needed to take over a system with modern security.

Speaking of wasting one's own time, this post got a bit long :rofl2: in my defence I'm just sat here waiting for the mail to arrive.
just let people try, it's their time lmao. also it's a good enough length lol
 
Its like handing you a brick and saying, "If you can hit the moon, you win.", then when you realise how impossible the task is, being told, "But you have as many shots as you want..."
 
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