Again, here's my 2 cents.
A few pages back, a couple'a people started complaining and speculating that Gateway weren't denying their exploit working below 9.x, they just recomended that to hit a larger pool of users and game compatibility due to a speculated no EmuNAND.
But loo' and behold, they actually did. Here's how:
We recently reached a major milestone and now we are happy to announce that we are in the process of finalizing our support for 3DS systems running System Firmware 9.0.0-20 / 9.1.0-20J / 9.2.0-20 natively!
Yes, this includes 2DS and New 3DS!
Anyone with at least a B1.1 English level would easily add: " [...] our support
ONLY for 3DS systems [...] ".
They didn't. That's proof enough (unless they can't write english worth crap) that there
WON'T BE ANY DONGLE (according to e-mails they've answered already about
NO ADDITIONAL HARDWARE REQUIRED) or whatever in order to work with those exact firmwares.
Seriously, guys, speculation only works if you can fundament your arguments factually, not fundament speculation with MORE speculation. That's discourse analysis 101. As it stands,
I SPECULATE that the exploit has something to do with what FW 9.x brought us.
So seriously, enough with the conspiracy theories. Yes, Gateway did really bad to implement a sh*tty brick code in the past, but that's where it is, in the past.