Hacking Question Anybody bricked with the fake sx payload?

[wurstpistole]

Thanks for the information, so those without a NAND backup can really stop trying. Hope @Filo97 updates OP with that information.

 

[Creatable]

What stops a faked/borrowed/generated PRODINFO from working?

Your bootloader / bootrom. Those two will check to see if that console specific info is there. If you use someone else's, it can tell that it is not from your console.
No, you cannot modify the bootloader. If you do, your switch will refuse to boot.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Your bootloader / bootrom. Those two will check to see if that console specific info is there. If you use someone else's, it can tell that it is not from your console.

That's not something that can theoretically be edited or worked around with the bootrom exploit?

 

[V-Temp]

What stops a faked/borrowed/generated PRODINFO from working?

You'd fail the sign-checks from boot. That has to be genuine and be yours.

 

[Creatable]

That's not something that can theoretically be edited or worked around with the bootrom exploit?

I don't think so.

 

[V-Temp]

That's not something that can theoretically be edited or worked around with the bootrom exploit?

Pretty sure you'd need Nintendo's signing keys to do anything there, and we obviously don't have and never will have that.

 

[Subtle Demise]

Pretty sure you'd need Nintendo's signing keys to do anything there, and we obviously don't have and never will have that.

Ah so FG isn't low enough on the boot chain then to bypass the signature check. That truly does suck, and took a bunch of exploitable consoles out of commission.

 

[Bladexdsl]

a strange file appears that's not from team X And not on their website AND you download it and now your bricked. so who's fault is this?

 

[wurstpistole]

a strange file appears that's not from team X And not on their website AND you download it and now your bricked. so who's fault is this?

Yours.
Seriously though, this thread has everything in it that needs to be said. Enough with the circlejerk. Please lock it down already.

 

[k3rizz3k]

I hate all the shaming going on here. That being said, I'm trying REALLY hard not to take sides... Proper NAND backups are common sense.

 

[wurstpistole]

That being known how it works, I have another question. Would there be any brick that a payload can do, that you can NOT fix with a full raw NAND backup?
Just for future... reference.

 

[Creatable]

That being known how it works, I have another question. Would there be any brick that a payload can do, that you can NOT fix with a full raw NAND backup?
Just for future... reference.

You could overvolt the switch, which would literally fry it. You could also burn all fuses, making it impossible to boot without hekate.

 

[wurstpistole]

You could overvolt the switch, which would literally fry it. You could also burn all fuses, making it impossible to boot without hekate.

Man, I can already see the future shenanigans happening.
Better just get the new Switch up and running, get a new SX license and forget about every other payload in existence forever.

 

[Creatable]

Man, I can already see the future shenanigans happening.
Better just get the new Switch up and running, get a new SX license and forget about every other payload in existence forever.

Yeah, that would probably be the best course of action.

 

[Indominusda1e]

I bet most of the people who are bricked said tx are money grabbing scoundrels and they wouldn't use their products. Yet as soon as a "cracked" version comes they try jump on the sx bandwagon. It makes me chuckle immensely that for the sake of 30dollars or so which would have saved them 100s of dollars in money saved for backups. They now have a 300 dollar paperweight. I shouldn't be smug but I really really am

 

[wurstpistole]

I bet most of the people who are bricked said tx are money grabbing scoundrels and they wouldn't use their products. Yet as soon as a "cracked" version comes they try jump on the sx bandwagon. It makes me chuckle immensely that for the sake of 30dollars or so which would have saved them 100s of dollars in money saved for backups. They now have a 300 dollar paperweight. I shouldn't be smug but I really really am

Wow, thanks for this input that really nobody else in this thread already brought up, and that helps so much.

 

[Marlonys]

I bet most of the people who are bricked said tx are money grabbing scoundrels and they wouldn't use their products. Yet as soon as a "cracked" version comes they try jump on the sx bandwagon. It makes me chuckle immensely that for the sake of 30dollars or so which would have saved them 100s of dollars in money saved for backups. They now have a 300 dollar paperweight. I shouldn't be smug but I really really am

This is the truth tbh ^

 

[Indominusda1e]

Wow, thanks for this input that really nobody else in this thread already brought up, and that helps so much.

Your welcome

 

[snoofly]

I bet most of the people who are bricked said tx are money grabbing scoundrels and they wouldn't use their products. Yet as soon as a "cracked" version comes they try jump on the sx bandwagon. It makes me chuckle immensely that for the sake of 30dollars or so which would have saved them 100s of dollars in money saved for backups. They now have a 300 dollar paperweight. I shouldn't be smug but I really really am

He spake the truth to be fair.
All the warnings to be careful what payload you’re injecting and to take nand backup are all over the place.
If you choose to ignore and get burnt then well...

 

[Deleted member 411764]

He spake the truth to be fair.
All the warnings to be careful what payload you’re injecting and to take nand backup are all over the place.
If you choose to ignore and get burnt then well...

that's an opinion, and no, he's not speaking the truth...