Keeping it private, because it is not know by nintendo is also selfish? If you see it like this, find your own exploit. You can be happy that there is someone who is willing to share to the comunity anything.
One of the reasons it's private is because the exploit chain still works in part on the latest version, and people want to use it to explore Mariko units that probably won't be vulnerable to RCM attacks. Given the availability of RCM payloads on all systems currently, there's literally no reason to consume this exploit chain now.
Actually no it's not... A hardware mod is making a physical change to the devices hardware. You do not have to make a physical change to the device to use RCM you can simply short the pin with whatever metal object you wish and done. No need to physically attach any new device or modify the existing hardware. It is a software mod plain and simple. While there are hardware mods one can do to make using RCM easy it doesn't require a hard mod.
You're saying that rerouting the electricity from either pins 1 or 7 into pin 10 is not a hardware modification but a software modification? That type of current does not normally flow like that. And it is manipulated with a piece of hardware (whether its a jig, paperclip, or tin foil). Permanent installation doesn't denote hardmods, hardmods can be temporary. And there are no purely software based methods of inducing RCM, AutoRCM requires the device to already be in RCM to be installed.
You don't modify the hardware by shortening a pin. If you don't modify hardware its no hardmod. Shortening this pins is the same as pressing a button
Exactly. This changes just one bit of the inputs. The software reads this bit and then behaves like programmed. It is the same as pushing a button or setting a jumper. No modification of hardware, just using it as intended
You have to because no hardware is modified
But to reach that point, you have to introduce something foreign to the Switch because current does not normally flow between those pins in the first place. Inserting a jig is definitely nowhere near the level of hardware manipulation as a modchip, but it doesn't qualify as a softmod either.
Not at all I'm saying it doesn't require a hardware mod to do it. Shorting a pin with a wire or paper clip is not a hardware mod. Seriously how hard is it to understand the difference between shoving a wire into something and soldering a wire into something. A hardmod is a physical change to the existing hardware. Shorting a pin with a wire without even opening the device is not a physical change to the hardware.
Because what you're saying is that introducing the wire or paperclip doesn't count as hardware. They certainly are not a part of the Switch's hardware and must be introduced externally. The end effect is software based but cannot be achieved without a physical item being introduced which does not originally belong to the Switch.
introducing the wire or paperclip doesn't count as modifying hardware.
Yes? Its temporary and external, but that wire is not a part of the car and must be introduced from outside of the car's hardware. It would be silly to call the jumper a softmod. If you want to invent a new category for external, temporary hardmods that are not softmods either, by all means be my guest
