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

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The Switch 2 likely will get hacked eventually in my opinion, just not in the time frame people commenting here want it to though.

The Xbox One eventually got hacked after 12+ years, even then its of no use to the average person right now. Markus Gaasedelen proved it is possible though for anyone motivated enough to re create his work.

The Xbox 360 got a softmod after almost two decades, who ever thought that was going to happen when the console was in its prime?
 
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TomSwitch said:
Lionel Messi is my favorite player, if you come arguing that he won't miss penalty short in the coming world cup final I would still say you are full of shit even though I would never like to see him miss.
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ok? i dont see how that relates to what we were talking about. There is proof the a full on hack is not possible, there is no proof on any side in your example
 
DigBar said:
well do you have any proof that it is hackable besides "everything can be hacked"? As I said, you guys have been shown the proof yet you refuse to believe it because it clashes with your dumb delusion about a realistic switch 2 hack
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You can not prove an impossibility. Full stop.
 
FernandoRocker said:
Wrong. I'm claiming no one can hack it.

Do not trust my word. Trust SciresM words. He has repeatedly said that there are no kernel bugs. I don't know how many times I have to keep repeating the same.

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Using Xbox One as an example really isnt the silver bullet you think it is, because there's quite literally 0 incentive to homebrewing that console. The Switch 2 is an accessible, portable device with good specs, and on the piracy side, the only way to play some upcoming big titles. You've posted some hackers saying they can't figure out how to do it, and that the usual means they've figured out aren't working, that doesn't mean its unhackable, it means someone will have to come up with something new. We're probably gonna see someone using a bad firmware update, a specific poorly coded game, or heck, something downright silly that no one would've guessed without tinkering with the console for long enough. I'd say once the new Pokémon comes out, the piracy side of things alone will influence a LOT of people into looking for alternatives.

I'm well aware all I'm saying here is ''it probably can happen'', but then again this whole thread so far is people going ''it can't happen!!!'' vs ''it might happen!'' anyways. Point is, law of averages, never say never, there's an interest, there are people hitting their head against a wall, at some point it will crumble, no matter how many concussions we get on the way.
 
OneAnxiety3917 said:
You've posted some hackers saying they can't figure out how to do it, and that the usual means they've figured out aren't working, that doesn't mean its unhackable
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"Some hackers" lol. You do know who SciresM is, right? He is the one who actually knows the ins and outs of the Switch code since he (and his team) figure out how to hack the console and continuously update Atmosphere.

OneAnxiety3917 said:
I'm well aware all I'm saying here is ''it probably can happen'', but then again this whole thread so far is people going ''it can't happen!!!'' vs ''it might happen!'' anyways. Point is, law of averages, never say never, there's an interest, there are people hitting their head against a wall, at some point it will crumble, no matter how many concussions we get on the way.
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I think people need to realize that whenever people say "never", they usually mean "within its lifetime". By the time people might hack the Switch 2, we'll be well into the Switch 3 so far less people will care about it. Only those who likely want to use it for homebrew will likely stick around.
 
OneAnxiety3917 said:
Using Xbox One as an example really isnt the silver bullet you think it is
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The fact that the Xbox One was recently hacked doesn’t bolster the case either - the Bliss exploit is an unpatchable hardware vulnerability. Took a while, but the Xbox One was eventually breached. I don’t understand why everyone is focusing on “software hacks” - since when has that been the baseline? The opposite is true - most consoles have historically required some kind of hardware modification. Softmods have always been the exception from the rule. Yeah, you may need to chip the console to run unsigned code, or perform some other hardware sorcery (at least initially). So what? That’s still hacking.
 
pofehof said:
"Some hackers" lol. You do know who SciresM is, right? He is the one who actually knows the ins and outs of the Switch code since he (and his team) figure out how to hack the console and continuously update Atmosphere.
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They know what they know, but that doesn't make them the authoritative figures of general hacking. Much of their work is based on the RCM exploit, which isn't really an exploit of the Switch 1, but a leftover feature of the Tegra X1 used in it that was designed for the Nvidia Shield TV to recover from fatal crashes. It is well documented by Nvidia themselves.

Nothing is unhackable, but just as there are upgrades to security, folks need to upgrade their way of approaching the problem to find a solution around it.
 
DiscostewSM said:
They know what they know, but that doesn't make them the authoritative figures of general hacking. Much of their work is based on the RCM exploit, which isn't really an exploit of the Switch 1, but a leftover feature of the Tegra X1 used in it that was designed for the Nvidia Shield TV to recover from fatal crashes. It is well documented by Nvidia themselves.
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It's not just the RCM exploit, it's also figuring out how to get homebrew working with the Switch OS. WIth that, they are able to see if there are any software hacks, and to this day (at least after Pegascape), there are none. Even though people could install a modchip in their Switch Lite or OLED, most people would much rather have a software only entrypoint.

I would much rather trust what SciresM says over people who keep on saying "it'll happen". Will we have a hack in 20 years? Sure, but it's very unlikely that we'll have one within the Switch 2's lifetime.
 
pofehof said:
It's not just the RCM exploit, it's also figuring out how to get homebrew working with the Switch OS. WIth that, they are able to see if there are any software hacks, and to this day (at least after Pegascape), there are none. Even though people could install a modchip in their Switch Lite or OLED, most people would much rather have a software only entrypoint.

I would much rather trust what SciresM says over people who keep on saying "it'll happen". Will we have a hack in 20 years? Sure, but it's very unlikely that we'll have one within the Switch 2's lifetime.
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But in the end, it only demonstrates that nothing is unhackable.
 

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