Homebrew is using WiiU Quick Start still taboo? is so why is it?

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i have my wii U with CHBC setup but i remember a while back when wii u hacking was still young they always say in addition to setting up DNS you must also disable Quick Start. why cant we use Quick Start?
 
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Personally i leave it on, people say not to use it because of some dumb rumor about "spy updates" that would bypass a dns and install if you had QS on. (these are confirmed fake and never proved to exist as far as i know)
 
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