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It will be interesting to see if the Switch 2 ever gets a mod chip, because NVIDIA has a completely reengineered boot chain that should be impenetrable. Combine that with an OS that already is impenetrable (no useful exploits in half a decade), we might be waiting an Xbox One-level amount of time.

https://gbatemp.net/threads/switch-2-data-gathering-for-poss...




> we might be waiting an Xbox One-level amount of time.

You never know! People said that about the Switch at launch, and then someone softmodded it with a paperclip and USB-C.


Sounds interesting, got a link?


Most likely referring to CVE-2018-6242 aka "Fusée Gelée"

The paperclip was just the easiest way of triggering RCM, which is a standard feature on Tegra. The vulnerability lay in that they didn't bounds check certain types of USB requests properly.


Yup, here's some footage of what it looks like: https://youtu.be/20SYS0_s7QI?t=377




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