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  • Wild to see the outrage on bluesky and twitter over how this hack has "no soul" and that despite wanting to pirate desperately, many claim they'll wait for a "more ethical", human developed exploit.

    I genuinely wish I was joking, it reads like a bit out of South Park.

    by miladyincontrol
  • I can't believe that he was doing this using Codex!

    Reason: Codex shut me down when trying to find a stack overflow in my own code, saying that I had to be an authorized security researcher.

    It probably triggered on the word "Java" in my code. But I wasn't working on Java at all... It's a personal regex library written in *C*, and I was working on a Java dialect (I currently support 12 dialects... for fun. Stop judging me.)

    I had to go back to Claude...

    by coreyp_1
  • There should be a limit for ten years that manufacturer was allowed to restrict access to their devices. After ten years has gone, manufacturers should be required to publish software to help owners jailbreak their devices. Think about it. All game consoles and cell phones in use today will be bricked in ten years from now if they are not jailbroken.
    by thomasfl
  • Putting the obvious discussion about how much the AI matters in comparison to the user (experienced security expert from a few glances at the blog) aside; i think it's really neat how modern tooling (the KVMs, bluetooth light switch flicker, and usb controller support out of the box) enables this level of automation.
    by KeplerBoy
  • That contraption used to press the power button is the SwitchBot Bot[1], made by SwitchBot. That makes this one a "Switch SwitchBot Bot".

    https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot

    by nonfunctional
  • I don't understand, how are people using codex for this sort of research? Whenever I try to do bug bounty, research, etc it locks down and I have the "blue" tier access/daylight whatever it's called.

    For example I tried to investigate some CVE's on older android roms and it downright was refusing it. It was okay when doing it on... Microsoft and to submit a microsoft bug bounty but android was no go.

    by rootsudo
  • Perfection:

      The JetKVMs allow Codex to send controller inputs to the  Switches over USB and receive video output over HDMI. We also need a way to press the power button—when the Switch 2 crashes, it needs a button press to restart.

  That’s what the Bluetooth light switch flicker from Amazon is for. When the lever comes down, it presses the power button. Once the power button is fully pressed, the rest of the lever’s torque lifts the mechanism.
    by valgaze
  • Incredible all around.

    If this is true decrypted `fs` r/w, I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing Switch 2 game dumps appear in a few hours. Given the world of recomps/decomps we now live in, that would mean console exclusives playable on arbitrary hardware (a worst-case scenario for Nintendo). We've already seen things like Tears of the Kingdom running at 60fps natively on an iPhone.

    Giving LLMs arms and eyes via KVM (or webcam) is a very strong paradigm for this sort of hardware work, as it allows things to be parallelised and run 24/7. Highly recommend people play with this more (to less nefarious ends!) when working on firmware/hardware for external devices.

    Worth noting too that this would have easily fetched >$50k via Nintendo's HackerOne (https://hackerone.com/nintendo).

    by hturan

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