32c3 hacking conference starts 27th December.

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This is a quick post to mention that the annual C3 hacking conference, this year being the 32nd of them, starts tomorrow (the 27th of December).
Though all years have things certain to be of interest to those that visit GBAtemp this year does also have a dedicated 3ds hacking talk set to happen on the 27th. GBAtemp already has a thread here. If you wish to discuss other talks and events then feel free to use this thread.

If you are not familiar with c3 then there are lots of talks from various hackers on a variety of subjects likely to be of interest to them, of late it runs for four days with multiple talks happening (and being streamed) at once.
You can view this schedule, aka Fahrplan, on the following link Fahrplan for 32c3. You can view a list and brief description of each talk on this link.
You can find information about streams here and if you would rather not watch them live then they will probably end up on youtube before too long.
The conference is put on by a German hacking group and is held in Germany so there will be some talks held in German, however a great many will be in English as it is an international conference. The times on the schedule will be those for Germany as well so if you need it then world time clock.

If you are sitting there wondering what it might do for you then if you have ever sat there wondering how hacks come to pass in the first place then many talks here will teach you aspects of this. Check out some of the talks from previous years, other conferences and such.

So then what talks are you looking forward to this year?
 

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So that was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.
- Downgrading system titles from userland, in other words downgrades on 9.3+. Dubbed "SNSHAX", this only works on the new 3DS.
- ARM11 kernel on any firmware. Apparently memchunkhax was not properly patched after all.
- ARM9 kernel access on any firmware using a custom DS cartridge (PassMe anyone?)
- The 3DS' encryption keys and the hardware keyscrambler engine have been broken. Encryption/decryption is possible without the use of a 3DS. However people will have to figure out the missing pieces that are being kept secret themselves. This may be the key to 10.3 emuNAND on new 3DS.
- homemenuhax and browserhax work again, old exploitable version of ironfall can be downloaded from eShop still. New versions of menuhax and browserhax are already out, supposedly the method to download old ironfall is also out though I couldn't find it.
- Probably some other smaller things I can't recall
All very interesting things and although some of the key information to accomplish all these things is still kept secret I have a feeling a lot is going to be happening in the 3DS scene in the near future.
 
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So that was a lot more interesting than I thought it would be.
- Downgrading system titles from userland, in other words downgrades on 9.3+. Dubbed "SNSHAX", this only works on the new 3DS.
- ARM11 kernel on any firmware. Apparently memchunkhax was not properly patched after all.
- ARM9 kernel access on any firmware using a custom DS cartridge (PassMe anyone?)
- The 3DS' encryption keys and the hardware keyscrambler engine have been broken. Encryption/decryption is possible without the use of a 3DS. However people will have to figure out the missing pieces that are being kept secret themselves. This may be the key to 10.3 emuNAND on new 3DS.
- homemenuhax and browserhax work again, old exploitable version of ironfall can be downloaded from eShop still. New versions of menuhax and browserhax are already out, supposedly the method to download old ironfall is also out though I couldn't find it.
- Probably some other smaller things I can't recall
All very interesting things and although some of the key information to accomplish all these things is still kept secret I have a feeling a lot is going to be happening in the 3DS scene in the near future.
What do you mean by custom DS cartridge?
 

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Ahh that must've been when i wen't to the restroom. Mind filling me in on what i missed? :)

PassMe was a way of running homebrew on the original DS/DS Lite by redirecting cartridge reads to the GBA slot, instead of the DS slot. For the purposes of the 3DS, they hooked up an FPGA to it, in order to control what data gets read. For whatever reason, the ARM11 can read and write the DS-mode cartridge registers, so if you have control of ARM11, you can change the amount of data asked for by the system, causing a buffer overflow (normally, it only asks for 0x200 bytes). I wasn't entirely sure how that lead to them gaining ARM9 with it, but it works on all firmwares for now. I'll watch that part again when I'm less tired.
 
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So I watched the 3ds talk later that night, will probably have to watch it again when I am not about to fall asleep in my chair. Good stuff though.

I still have many to watch but thus far

The Ultimate Amiga 500 talk did what it said and covered Amiga hardware enough for me to more comfortably play ROM hacker.


My Robot Will Crush You With Its Soft Delicate Hands!

30 minutes presentation, the rest was Q&A.
It gave me some ideas for things and that I am always happy to see. Though it did not appear as such I will wait until I have some experiments done before raving.
 

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For those confused, this is likely Marcan of Failoverflow demonstrating a new PS4 hack. Hype is considerable.
It should start in about 7hrs according to my calculations.

https://streaming.media.ccc.de/32c3/hallg/
same as the 3ds talk
It's on!

Edit: yes they hacked the PS4, ran Linux and played pokemon GBA with an emulator.
They said "kernel patches coming" - bring your own exploit.
 
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