By Emma Boyle
Nintendo is no stranger to hackers finding exploits in its system, but for the very first time it appears that they’ve uncovered one that Nintendo can’t patch.
Two very similar exploits have been discovered, both of which take advantage of a security weakness in the Nvidia Tegra X1 processor. It’s because the exploit is at the hardware level that Nintendo can’t fix it permanently with a simple patch – it’ll take revising the actual processor to solve this problem.
As a result, homebrew code can now be used on every Nintendo Switch and we’re already seeing console supporting Linux with full touch controls.
Hacktastic
The exploits have come from fail0verflow and Kate Temkin and both sources have documented their methods. Fail0verflow expressed some wariness towards revealing vulnerabilities like this “for fear of them being used primarily for piracy rather than homebrew.”
However, they added that the bug is “so obvious that multiple people have independently discovered it by now.” Knowing that the bug will be made public sooner rather than later, fail0verflow decided to release their hack “to make it very clear that we do this for fun and homebrew, and nothing else.“
While we’ve seen relatively harmless …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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