Critical vulnerability in Nvidia's Tegra X1 SoC can be used to hack Nintendo Switch
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- 29 Apr 2018
Anonymous, 28 Apr 2018Finally, devices should be owned by those who bought them a... moreCars should be owned by those who bought them and not the government. Requiring driving license & having to follow traffic rules is shady at best, downright tyrranical at worse.
Let people be unsafe if they so want to. Can't part a person from his purchase.
An individual's sense of ownership should not be allowed to impact the enjoyment and value others derive from their system. This leaves the door open for cheaters in online games, and piracy which hampers the software support (more rehashes instead of games built from ground up, the kind a system receives within its first 1-2 years due to low install base). Some heavily pirated games may never get a sequel.
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- 28 Apr 2018
Finally, devices should be owned by those who bought them and not their mother company.
If anything a manual switch should exist (by law) to allow for products to be owned by its byers (obvioualy they lose warranty when pushed). Anything else is shady at best, downright tyrranical at worse.
Let people be unsafe if they so want to. Can't part a person from his purchase.
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- 26 Apr 2018
Anonymous321, 26 Apr 2018How if Nintendo decided to produce a newer version of Switc... more"All the owner of first gen Switch will be screwed."
Which is why there is exactly 0% chance of that happening. It would be incredibly stupid on their part to alienate 17.79 million customers, most of which are their core fans. It will hurt them badly, way more than piracy ever will. Relax, It's not going to happen no matter what.
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- 26 Apr 2018
AdamBoy64, 26 Apr 2018Yeah, that is a bad thing about it - opening up the system ... moreHow if Nintendo decided to produce a newer version of Switch with newer processor without that the vulnerability, and then it restricted all newly release games to be able to play on the new version of Switch only to prevent any game piracy. All the owner of first gen Switch will be screwed.
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- 26 Apr 2018
Kiyasuriin, 26 Apr 2018Oh. Whew. ^^; heheh heh. //want to bury myself from shame. ... moreIt's not a big deal. Happens to the best of us. By the way, have you played Arms yet?
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- 26 Apr 2018
Anonymous, 26 Apr 2018You're not going to get ransomware/virus because of this. T... moreOh. Whew. ^^; heheh heh. //want to bury myself from shame. >/////////////>
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- 26 Apr 2018
Kiyasuriin, 26 Apr 2018No. I am not a fan of modding when it comes to games. I alw... moreYou're not going to get ransomware/virus because of this. This is the kind of vulnerability, that allows one to gain root access on Android or jailbreak iOS. No one can hack your Nintendo Switch, unless you personally hand it over to them.
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- 26 Apr 2018
Anonymous321, 26 Apr 2018Well, I have not much concern about my personal data was ha... moreYeah, that is a bad thing about it - opening up the system to piracy.
I don't think it'll stop the support of the system though.
The Nintendo DS and Wii had a lot of mods, but that didn't stop devs supporting it.
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- 26 Apr 2018
you're ok, 25 Apr 2018you need physical access to the unit to use the exploit, so... moreNo. I am not a fan of modding when it comes to games. I always liked it Original. I was more worried toward ransomware or viruses
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- 26 Apr 2018
AdamBoy64, 26 Apr 2018Well, this can only affect your console if you yourself plu... moreWell, I have not much concern about my personal data was hacked from the Switch itself, but I very much agreed with one comment from other fella below, which he said:
You're thinking of security in terms of a smartphone, which doesn't apply to consoles. This is not about the security of user's personal data which is obviously not present on the switch, but the operating system of the console itself. It will eventually lead to piracy, and hacked versions of games being used to cheat online and ruin the experience for everybody. Piracy also makes the developers and publishers reluctant in releasing new games for the system.
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- 26 Apr 2018
Anonymous321, 25 Apr 2018I was planning to get myself a Nintendo Switch this week, b... moreWell, this can only affect your console if you yourself plug something into it and mod it - your system isn't under threat from anyone else, so I wouldn't let it stop you.
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- 26 Apr 2018
Both a good and a bad thing.
In a good way, I can see that modders can now add much needed features to the switch - eg. being able to back up game save data.
But yeah, this will open the door to piracy.
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- 25 Apr 2018
Kiyasuriin, 25 Apr 2018Noooo!!! D: I have the Switch! Q_Qyou need physical access to the unit to use the exploit, something to do with a fuse on the board. this is only relevant towards modding. which, if you're a fan of the system, is bad, because it means Nintendo will lose money towards piracy.
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- 25 Apr 2018
gargi, 25 Apr 2018so an attacker needs physical access to the device => no... moreyeah, thought similarly while reading. no word on that part, but i guess the picture implies that the attacker needs to get their hands on your device and also needs a device of their own, a Linux machine perhaps, physically connected to yours.
if that's the case then it's really not that big of a deal, imo... while data encryption, as you suggested, might not work here, it still requires quite the opportunity. the most likely one i can imagine would be handing the device over to a technician for repair. or someone just steals your device, in which case you're boned anyway, architectural vulnerability or not
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- 25 Apr 2018
Nice, Modded Nintendo Switch OS's :)
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- 25 Apr 2018
I was planning to get myself a Nintendo Switch this week, but this news hold me back from getting one..
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- 25 Apr 2018
r33fd, 25 Apr 2018I don't get what's the big deal on this . It's a gaming co... moreYou're thinking of security in terms of a smartphone, which doesn't apply to consoles. This is not about the security of user's personal data which is obviously not present on the switch, but the operating system of the console itself. It will eventually lead to piracy, and hacked versions of games being used to cheat online and ruin the experience for everybody. Piracy also makes the developers and publishers reluctant in releasing new games for the system.
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- 25 Apr 2018
That's awesome news. Homebrew software , emulators, and eventually less legal uses, like how the N3DS had Stagefright
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- 25 Apr 2018
I don't get what's the big deal on this .
It's a gaming console!
It's not like you are going to do banking transactions on it.
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- 25 Apr 2018
so an attacker needs physical access to the device => not interesting. It should be clear to anyone that if your device falls into the hands of someone, your data is compromised.
the solution is to encrypt.