The annual C3 hacker conference, this year being 33C3, is set to run from the 27th of December to the 30th of December. It is one of the main European hacker conferences and invariably features loads of interesting talks on a variety of things hackers might be interested in. If you have ever wanted to learn how to hack things then "start watching these" is a good answer.
Previous years have showcased hacking of the Wii, PS3, 3ds and more besides. This year has a Nintendo talk scheduled with the 3ds and wii u mentioned, there is also a talk on the PS4, pinball machines, a talk on the hardware of the original gameboy line and a dissection of a 16 bit era dos game in case you ever wondered what it really takes to port an old game you lack source code for. It is certainly not all games though so do check out the Farhplan/schedule for more.
https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2016/Fahrplan/
Do remember this is Berlin/Hamburg/CET time or presently GMT+1
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/germany/berlin

You can try to watch things live if you want, however you might be better off waiting for things to appear on the C3 youtube channels. There are also a few hackerspaces streaming the events.

What talks are you looking forward to?

 

[KiiWii]

I missed it but can anyone explain ioctvlhax and mqhax?

 

[Quantumcat]

anything interesting? cant access at work

Bootrom exploit = sighax!

 

[TotalInsanity4]

Is there an archive of Derek's presentation somewhere?

 

[Quantumcat]

So do we have bootrom exploits now? What does it all mean? Why is there not more activity on this thread???

Edit: all the activity is here: https://gbatemp.net/threads/33c3-co...-smea-derrek-nedwill-naehrwert.450043/page-17

 

[Uwabami]

So do we have bootrom exploits now? What does it all mean? Why is there not more activity on this thread???

They're changing pants...

 

[HuskyXD]

For those of you that missed the presentation, I uploaded the video on twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/cooroxd/v/110218031

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I missed it but can anyone explain ioctvlhax and mqhax?

https://www.twitch.tv/cooroxd/v/110218031

 

[Kingy]

It was great, still no downgrader or that stuff.

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I love this image

 

[digiw0rx]

It was great, still no downgrader or that stuff.

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I love this image

Why would you need a downgrader when firmware can be signed.

 

[Kingy]

Why would you need a downgrader when firmware can be signed.

Why wouldn't you want a downgrader

 

[proflayton123]

None of you have patience


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[munchy_cool]

Why wouldn't you want a downgrader

because you can sign the firmware, means custom firmwares can now be loaded as official ..thats my understanding

 

[Kingy]

because you can sign the firmware, means custom firmwares can now be loaded as official ..thats my understanding

What about exploits?

 

[munchy_cool]

What about exploits?

I believe in the 3ds hacking scene you needed exploits to load a CFW, but now that you have bootrom exploit means you dont need other exploits to load a CFW. If you are familiar with Android, basically means you have an unlocked bootloader and can load custom firmwares ..

 

[Uwabami]

I believe in the 3ds hacking scene you needed exploits to load a CFW, but now that you have bootrom exploit means you dont need other exploits to load a CFW. If you are familiar with Android, basically means you have an unlocked bootloader and can load custom firmwares ..

Better than that. They can sign them just like Nintendo does

 

[mariogamer]

exploit like things: soundhax (userland free homebrew),fasthax (kernel11 on latest fw)
bootrom: 3ds bootrom dumped ++ sighax: make your own fw,app

That what I understand.

 

[proflayton123]

What about exploits?

Read above


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I wasn't expecting to see boot rom being dumped so soon

 

[mariogamer]

Read above


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I wasn't expecting to see boot rom being dumped so soon

They dumped it around 2015 XD,nintendo need to be thankfull

 

[Kingy]

Read above


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I wasn't expecting to see boot rom being dumped so soon

I was mainly talking about the Wii U but ok

 

[proflayton123]

I was mainly talking about the Wii U but ok

Specifying you meant the Wii U would've been more ideal for future reference

 

[mariogamer]

I was mainly talking about the Wii U but ok

Absolutely....... Nothing. There's something like a bug in the boot0 (or boot1,don't remember) but they didn't tryed to exploit it a lot.

I think everything that was revealed was alreadcy known (contenthax,haxchi,iosu...)