Hacking SX OS contains brick code!

[bkifft]

https://github.com/bkifft/RPU

might be handy for those who have bricked, the unlock function certainly wont work, but iirc @bkifft left the option to force erase after gateway changed their lock function, but you will need a nand backup

Aye. Force erase is still in there.
Kernel is still old only though (unsure if someone already built one for pi2/pi3).

 

[EmanueleBGN]

"Our product has been designed with the greatest possible stability and polish. Whenever someone is running our SX OS they can be assured they are running a safe and well-tested product. We cannot guarantee equal functionality and performance when any changes are made and therefore do not support any unauthorized modifications".

According to the SX OX developers, the built-in safety measure — which locks up Switch consoles until either a password is submitted or the software is updated — is meant to be a challenge for people messing with the program. The thinking, the representative explained, is that if someone is smart enough to modify the program, they should be smart enough to figure out how to get past the anti-piracy measure, too. It is also meant to stop people who might want to steal the functionality for their own purposes.

“We can detect malicious tampering with 100 percent accuracy and have a harmless cat-and-mouse game between aspiring hackers and competing teams that (amongst other things) simply puts a reversible [password] on the system. Someone would have to purposefully bypass lots of layers of integrity checking put in place to trigger this condition. This is not something that can happen in regular usage, ever.”

“We do not ‘brick’ any consoles, ever. We do implement inconveniences to safeguard anti-tampering of our SX OS boot file to remain at a competitive advantage. It would simply be bad business to intentionally harm a user’s console"

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[MasterJ360]

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This was a far better response than their 1st one. In Fact they are low key calling out Mike Heskin arguably directly if we wanna be blunt from his Twitter messages.
This hacking battle makes me wanna go watch some Ghost in the Shell anime