Homebrew Shouldn't we save a exploit?

[TheCruel]

The ones released recently had been known for several months, they just took their time studying them and prodding them until finally releasing. Don't worry, there are plenty of other exploits.

 

[fmkid]

A saved exploit is a useless exploit. Or one that doesn't exist, which is more likely.
Yellows8 and Smealum crave attention. They wouldn't withhold it because "Nintendo can fix it".
They aren't smarter than Nintendo's security team. They are NOT the first people to alert Nintendo of exploits. It takes time to fix them.

Yeah, you have all reason!... And, I guess, Nintendo also have their own hackers' team testing and reporting eventual failures on their systems!

 

[doctorgoat]

it's weird how little faith people put in nintendo.

 

[Zidapi]

A saved exploit is a useless exploit. Or one that doesn't exist, which is more likely.
Yellows8 and Smealum crave attention. They wouldn't withhold it because "Nintendo can fix it".
They aren't smarter than Nintendo's security team. They are NOT the first people to alert Nintendo of exploits. It takes time to fix them.

You must be new here, or you weren't around for the 9.5 debacle.

A saved exploit is a potential link in the chain for further down the line. Releasing them unnecessarily only helps Nintendo lock down the system more securely.

 

[doctorgoat]

You must be new here, or you weren't around for the 9.5 debacle.

A saved exploit is a potential link in the chain for further down the line. Releasing them unnecessarily only helps Nintendo lock down the system more securely.

You're welcome to save every exploit you make.

 

[Intronaut]

Highly unlikely. If he did they wouldn't be useful for 3/4 of the 3DS users because they are on 9.3.0 and above and most of his exploits work for 9.2.0 and below.

https://twitter.com/smealum/status/647305083571470336

 

[gudenau]

Where did you get that?

Some intuition, observation of the wiki and the public part of exploit development.

 

[teampleb]

There's a difference between an exploitable game and an exploit. An exploitable game can't be fixed (most of the time) but the exploit can be (Ninjhax). So you can release as many game exploits as you want and you'll only have to worry about fixing Ninjhax (which is already released anyway).

 

[dark_samus3]

Not to beat the dead horse anymore but smealum himself did say somewhere on twitter something along the lines of "just goes to show we're drowning in entrypoints" so releasing a new entrypoint isn't going to hurt and since the otherapp payload is the REAL hack here it doesn't really matter... If they patch the exploits used by the otherapp payload then all entrypoints will still work they just won't be useful for homebrew anymore

 

[Zidapi]

https://twitter.com/smealum/status/647305083571470336

A cynic might think the notoriously anti-piracy yellows8 is trying to get as many exploits/entry points patched as possible...

 

[ElyosOfTheAbyss]

If people want to release exploits let them.

 

[doctorgoat]

A cynic might think the notoriously anti-piracy yellows8 is trying to get as many exploits/entry points patched as possible...

... actually that'd be what an insane person would think

if you wanted stuff patched you'd just email Nintendo with details or not do the work at all

 

[Dyshonest]

You must be new here, or you weren't around for the 9.5 debacle.

A saved exploit is a potential link in the chain for further down the line. Releasing them unnecessarily only helps Nintendo lock down the system more securely.

Yep. Because Nintendo has no security team. They look online for exploits in their own system then patch it immediately.

... actually that'd be what an insane person would think

if you wanted stuff patched you'd just email Nintendo with details or not do the work at all

lol @ this guy thinking a big company has humans reading emails.

 

[doctorgoat]

... Yes, the big company does have humans reading emails. If someone remotely reputable sent an exploit somewhere like the Nintendo anti-piracy division, it'd be read.

 

[shinyquagsire23]

... actually that'd be what an insane person would think

if you wanted stuff patched you'd just email Nintendo with details or not do the work at all

Team Twiizers tried doing a professional disclosure like this and got legal threats and harassing phone calls as a result. So really the only solution is to keep your mouth shut or release something and let Nintendo suffer for their mistakes.

 

[Tigroid]

the Nintendo anti-piracy division,QUOTE]

? I knew not of such a thing.

 

[doctorgoat]

https://ap.nintendo.com/

[email protected].

 

[Tigroid]

https://ap.nintendo.com/

[email protected].

My apologies . I stand... er... sit corrected.

 

[normal19]

Just look up the PSP/Vita scene sometime. The way they handled "holding back on exploits" was a circus.

 

[doctorgoat]

My apologies . I stand... er... sit corrected.

There was this hilarious FURIOUS Mario picture on the page a few years back and it's the main reason I remember it.