Hacking group fail0verflow has discovered a vulnerability in Nintendo Switch that allows the installation of Linux, basically opening the door to something that the parent company hoped it’d never come true: pirated games.
In a post on Twitter earlier this week, fail0verflow revealed that Nintendo Switch comes with a bug that cannot be fixed with firmware updates and which can be abused at any moment to install Linux.
A photo that’s included in the tweet shows the Switch running Debian, and the hacking group says the exploit was aimed at a bug in the boot ROM, suggesting that software fixes aren’t possible. This means that if Nintendo does want to block this hack, the only way to do it might be working with Nvidia on new Tegra X1 chips without the vulnerability, though the company could find other ways to mitigate the problem.
Pirated games? Not so fast
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