Wait - you say, that Nintendo does a software revision to fix what they can in software, and a hardware revision to fix what they can not fix in software? Its like rocket science, or something..
Wait - you say, that to exploit the flaw in hardware - you would have to get access to it first - either via a hardware mod - or by getting an exploit chain thats able to penetrate several security layers, that just got hardened? Is that what hackers do? Seems like rocket science.
Wait - you say that reading kernel instructions from memory just got harder because of a concept called KASLR that has been in the news as a mitigation measure for Meltdown/Spectre and that you could literally read dozens of articles about, just by typing the phrase into google?
Wait - they patched dejavu entry points and hardened against its way of functioning? Its like - they did something...
Who knows, lets ask people how they feel about it instead. Thats a good metric. Also - we've got chatlogs with the words "never" and "did their homework", so lets all base our feelings around that one. Sounds like something we could do.
Also lets make an 11 minutes youtube video out of just doing that - telling people, to post in the comments below, if they know software, or coding - or... Because we are more "into reversing hardware". (*faintfacepalmheardfromfaraway*)
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Other money quotes from the video:
"They are changing the entire Tegra Chip out. With something that doesnt have the wealth of information about it out there like the X1 stock. It was kind of a mistake - IM SURE IT WAS CHEAP AT THE TIME, ... [...]Im sure nVidia offered up those Tegras cheap!" (I guess, going with silicon thats less documented - has to be more expensive, for some unknown reason... You know - like the saying always goes: "You know youve bought quality, if its well undocumented..."). Also, they are not "changing the Tegra out" they are ordering a revision. From nVidia. You know - like some people can design and redesign hardware - then manufacture that?
"Nintendo is doing this now - before the Switch gets mass adoption - I mean, they only have sold 18 million of it thus far. Once there are more than 18 million out in the open, this will get much harder to fix... (What? The thing thats unfixable in software once the device is out there in the first place? What do you think they will do - do a recall, then do tiny soldering?)"
Also - for those worried, that they never will get an exploitable Switch - in theory - ever again, once the hardware revision ships. Sure - it must be very hard to do so. With only 18 million of them out there. Disclaimer - this doesnt mean, that those will be easy to exploit going forward - Nintendo always just needs to be reactive and push auto updates - and the logic goes right back to "if you have an exploit - keep it private until it is patched, or the device is at EOL (end of life)" - which most users find very hard to understand (Hint: Its a way to make sure as many people as possible can eventually benefit from it. Even if it is not at exactly the moment they'd want to.).
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