Nintendo Switch hackers Team Xecuter leaders arrested, charged in federal indictment

ertaboy356b · Oct 3, 2020

lafleche said:
What do you mean by genuine boot will still work? Ofw?

It should work like an unmodded switch so you can still enjoy your synand, that is as far as I know though. It used to work when 10.2 got released even though OFW sysnand option won't work before the SXOS update.

watchband · Oct 3, 2020

Shalashaska98 said:
There's no such a thing as good VPN, VPN providers sell data and/or will do if there's a court order

there are some „good“ VPNs but they don‘t cost 3,99$ like Nord or other garbage

Ampersound · Oct 3, 2020

ertaboy356b said:
Atmos this, Atmos that, in the end, it all still goes to piracy. Who the fuck would hack their switch if not for piracy, maybe 0.001% will not hack for piracy but still.

Having access to everything. Being able to make proper backups. Homebrew and emulators. There are a lot of reasons.

spotanjo3 · Oct 3, 2020

Bowser was arrested and deported from the Dominican Republic ??! So he is illegal in America ? SMH! What a shame! Dishonest illegal living in America.

yoyoyo69 · Oct 3, 2020

x65943 said:
Nintendo has been moving forward quickly with this stuff in the past few weeks

Perhaps rumours of the new console are true?

Brawl345 · Oct 3, 2020

Good news. TX brought nothing but segregation for the whole Switch Homebrew community. Maybe we can finally start to work together instead of beating our heads over which CFW is better.

Meatloaf916 · Oct 3, 2020

candyman.the.onl said:
there are some „good“ VPNs but they don‘t cost 3,99$ like Nord or other garbage

wang vpn works great in China lol. It’s only on Android but when you say no to donations. Wang says, “Wang very sad” and then you can use it lol.

moto4mods · Oct 3, 2020

Chary said:
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The United States Department of Justice has shared some news regarding Team-Xecuter, which doesn't appear to be a good sign for the company. Gary Bowser, known on GBAtemp as garyopa, Max Louarn, and Yuanning Chen have all been arrested in Seattle, Washington. The US Government classifies these men as "leaders of one of the world's most notorious videogame piracy groups", and will be facing a federal indictment charge, for the selling of illegal hardware that facilitates piracy.

The FBI has also been involved, with each defendant to be charged under 11 felony counts, ranging from wire fraud, trafficking circumvention devices, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. One of the defendants, Louarn, has not yet been extradited, though Bowser has, where he was seen in the court hearing that took place today.

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It sucks to think the only way to enjoy freedom for YOUR hardware is to purchase an increasingly rare and expensive older model, or pay a COMPANY for the right to use hardware YOU own and obtained from Nintendo.

Its literally a chip, some designs and R&D, PCB prototyping, none of this is illegal and should always be encouraged. They didn't do anything wrong, but ask for money for something they really don't deserve compensation for.

Rebug gives out their CFW for PS3 and their trinket PCB schematic, if TX only sold their items for the sum of their parts, i would say TX is still in the right. If they made OFW and charged for it like windows or Mac I would support them. If their not official CFW was free, I would support them.

I have a hard time believing people smart enough to develop CFW and chips like this, aren't smart enough to see their practices very closely resemble that of their competitors, other piracy/circumvention device makers.

Even Cobra being closed source customization for PS3, exclusive to hardware made by the same, they didn't do anything wrong and even eventually released allot of work publicly, something only true modders would do. If they were really a team, this would go down allot different, and wouldn't look nearly as conveniently bad for them as it does.

vinhdt · Oct 3, 2020

Is it our fault that Nintendo device is insecure and exploitable? They should have hire better people to make their switch more secure and not exploitable like the Xbox One. It is their own fault. They can’t sue or arrest someone else if it is their own fault that they didn’t secure their devices from exploitable. It is absurd to arrest someone else because it is Nintendo fault that they didn’t hire people secure their switches from exploitable.

Keylogger · Oct 3, 2020

azoreseuropa said:
Bowser was arrested and deported from the Dominican Republic ??! So he is illegal in America ? SMH! What a shame! Dishonest illegal living in America.

Bowser from Nintendo wanted Bowser from TX to be arrested.
There is only one legit Bowser

alucard_xs · Oct 3, 2020

can Atmosphere be used on sx lite ?

Meatloaf916 · Oct 3, 2020

alucard_xs said:
can Atmosphere be used on sx lite ?

not yet but hopefully soon.

masbass · Oct 3, 2020

I was worried that TX would stop developing SX OS at some time in the future when switch was outdated so I installed Atmosphere straight away on my ipatched v1 with SX Core. I guess it sucks to have a v2 or Lite now as they will forever be stuck on SX OS v.3.0.5, however, I also fear that a future fw update by Nintendo might also affect our v1 that run Atmosphere. Even if Atmosphere updates its code it might no longer work on the outdated SX OS 3.0.5 so we also might need to stay stuck in 10.2.0 although that will be a problem only when a game requiring a later fw version appears. Realistically Switch is already 3 years old and I don't expect many radical changes appearing now, maybe a Switch 2 will shift the focus on that too.

alucard_xs · Oct 3, 2020

"hopefully" ?
With the news today, I'm doubtful ...

Meatloaf916 · Oct 3, 2020

alucard_xs said:
"hopefully" ?
With the news today, I'm doubtful ...

There will always be hackers. So I’m hopeful lol. But if they do go down someone will release something into the wild for developers to mess around with. It’s really too early to tell.

Clydefrosch · Oct 3, 2020

like the fbi would've actually cared if they hadn't done the laundering and wire fraud stuff.

godreborn · Oct 3, 2020

as geohot has said, suing hackers isn't the answer. sony really fucked that up during the ps3 days. now they've got it right. enlist their help in such a way that they get money and efame if they care about that, while still being able to release their hacks without fear of recourse. just suing and whatnot makes them look like a douche even by me and I'm legit.

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btw, speaking of exploits, I think December is when a team of hackers is going to explain the day one exploit for the ps4. there's been an exploit that has existed that works from the first firmware to the last (hopefully) that hasn't been released for fear of it being patched. they're going to disclose it in December at a hackers' conference. it might've been reported to sony and patched already on the latest firmware through hacker one. that's the sort of thing Nintendo should've done. I think Nintendo does have something like that where they pay hackers, but they really fucked up now that they've sued them. you're just going to piss them off, and we all know what happened with the ps3 after you pissed off the hackers.

SlCKB0Y · Oct 3, 2020

TheZander said:
Haven't these guys been through this before? 11 felonies aint shit.

Haha. Internet tough guy. You would shit in your pants the moment the cuffs went on.

peteruk · Oct 3, 2020

I know it's already been asked earlier in the thread (now more than 22 pages), has anyone heard from @blawar ?

Do we know if he's 'ok' ? Hasn't been active here since 2pm GMT yesterday,

bbsan2k · Oct 3, 2020

I guess I have a bit of a split opinion on it.
It is very sad, that (with TX out of the game) there is no solution for mariko etc anymore.
On the other hand I guess it’s what they deserve because of positioning their product for piracy only. If we are being honest with ourselves, there is probably no one using SX OS for NOT playing pirated games.

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