alt Hacker NewsE fuses are needed so people can't downgrade the device to old insecure software to exploit it. Without it or an equivalent like a secure monotonic counter how do you think such attacks be protected?
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const_cast • yesterday at 5:38 PM
Is this is a real threat that's actually happening on a scale that matter or moreso a make believe type thing?
Because I can do make believe type arguments all day. We should lock everyone up, because what if a super astroid hits the Earth and only prison is strong enough to protect them??
See, easy, and kind of fun. Doesn't mean much though.
There's a disagreement on who the attacker is. From Nintendo's perspective, the owner of the device is the attacker. From the owners perspective it's Nintendo.
Obviously the parent commenter believes you should be able to exploit your own device and downgrade the OS if you wish.