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

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ChibiMofo said:
Especially the alleged cybersecurity experts who clearly have no clue about how unhackable Switch 2 is, nor how many devices dating to at least the 90s have never been hacked (no, I am not talking about gaming hardware). The "nothing is unhackable" idiots are as hilarious as the "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing" thieves.

And I say that as 🏴‍☠️a proud thief🏴‍☠️ and retired certified Cisco and CISSP network engineer whose career started in the 80s.
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Can you be less obvious? I mean... come on 😹
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SonyUSA said:
Every planet is reachable by man, we just don't want to go there for various reasons.
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exactly. The "many hardware from the 90s" he's talking about are most likely hardware that nobody has interest in. If no one has any interest in hacking a device, then it will remain "unhacked".
 
every day i go on gbatemp, every day i see this thread being posted in.
this is one of those eternally popular threads, i suspect.
because the thread title is just so inflammatory it makes it so hard to resist.
 
ChibiMofo said:
Especially the alleged cybersecurity experts who clearly have no clue about how unhackable Switch 2 is, nor how many devices dating to at least the 90s have never been hacked (no, I am not talking about gaming hardware). The "nothing is unhackable" idiots are as hilarious as the "if buying isn't owning piracy isn't stealing" thieves.

And I say that as 🏴‍☠️a proud thief🏴‍☠️ and retired certified Cisco and CISSP network engineer whose career started in the 80s.
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If you were a Cisco engineer with that mindset then that would certainly explain the never ending barrage of Cisco related vulnerabilities... Joking aside, a machine not being hacked does not mean that it's "unhackable".
It could just mean that no one with the skill tried to hack the machine.

Also, didn't they use to say that the PS3 was unhackable? It's not the first time that word has been thrown around lightly and proven wrong.

I don't see why you think that the Switch 2 is unackable after only about a year after its launch?
Do you know something about the Switch 2 that the rest of us don't?
 
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Givemesteak said:
If you were a Cisco engineer with that mindset then that would certainly explain the never ending barrage of Cisco related vulnerabilities... Joking aside, a machine not being hacked does not mean that it's "unhackable".
It could just mean that no one with the skill tried to hack the machine.

Also, didn't they use to say that the PS3 was unhackable? It's not the first time that word has been thrown around lightly and proven wrong.

I don't see why you think that the Switch 2 is unackable after only about a year after its launch?
Do you know something about the Switch 2 that the rest of us don't?
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nothing made by a human cant be unmade by a human
 
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Nakamichi said:
nothing made by a human cant be unmade by a human
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Thanks captain smartypants. You need to include effort and timeframe. If cracking the switch2 ends up meaning having to break some modern crypto that requires state supercomputers running for millions of years, that hardly qualifies.
 
ikynx said:
Thanks captain smartypants. You need to include effort and timeframe. If cracking the switch2 ends up meaning having to break some modern crypto that requires state supercomputers running for millions of years, that hardly qualifies.
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who cares, i dont need a timetable to enjoy the process.
let the hackers do their job, slowly crunching what nintendo made into dust.
good things are worth waiting for.
 
ikynx said:
Thanks captain smartypants. You need to include effort and timeframe. If cracking the switch2 ends up meaning having to break some modern crypto that requires state supercomputers running for millions of years, that hardly qualifies.
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Plenty of hacked systems use advanced encryption, to my knowledge bruteforcing the decryption keys has never been the way. It's been more successful to in different way get the system itself to spill the beans. An entry exploit could be useful to start poking around.
 
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ikynx said:
Thanks captain smartypants. You need to include effort and timeframe. If cracking the switch2 ends up meaning having to break some modern crypto that requires state supercomputers running for millions of years, that hardly qualifies.
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Nothing is 100% safe against hackers. You can only make their job harder. One of these trick to make their job harder is to cut their physical acces off. Having physical, unsupervised, unlimited acces is in itself the biggest "flaw" one can make if they don't want their system hacked, which is why they put so many protection on their consoles now.
 
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"Unhackable" is an impossible term. No piece of technology is completely safe.

ikynx said:
Thanks captain smartypants. You need to include effort and timeframe. If cracking the switch2 ends up meaning having to break some modern crypto that requires state supercomputers running for millions of years, that hardly qualifies.
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Extremely inefficient method here, cybersecurity experts can do a lot more than autorun a decryption script. It's not like every tech exploit has been instantaneous. Game decomps can take a while, and even if the Switch 2's code and inner workings aren't figured out instantly, I doubt it will be more than a decade before something is discovered. Definitely not our best computers for millions of years.
 
PDave92 said:
"Unhackable" is an impossible term. No piece of technology is completely safe.



Extremely inefficient method here, cybersecurity experts can do a lot more than autorun a decryption script. It's not like every tech exploit has been instantaneous. Game decomps can take a while, and even if the Switch 2's code and inner workings aren't figured out instantly, I doubt it will be more than a decade before something is discovered. Definitely not our best computers for millions of years.
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If these people had put as many effort on hacking Switch 1 on hacking Playstation 4 or XBox One, maybe we'd had exploit much earlier. The thing is that hacking Nintendo consoles has always attracted more hackers than for other consoles. That part seems to be forgotten by people claiming that "there are old consoles that are still unhacked" (most likely by choice). If no one is even trying to crack open a piece of hardware, it doesn't mean that this piece of hardware is "unhackable"
 
I doubt we'll see a softmod anytime soon since basically everything is sandboxed. If anything it'll likely take a direct hardware exploit like the xbox one.
 

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