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They are used to exploit known vulns to get arbitrary read write, calls. For cheating. Both freebsd kernel exploits and browser exploits.


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Rohansitoday at 3:18 PM

Weird to see this is still a thing on the latest console generation. Xbox runs software under HyperV which should make exploitation difficult

embedding-shapetoday at 12:23 PM

Also for rooting the console, which makes it way easier to run cracked games. I think I saw a browser being used for getting root access first with PS3 unless I misremember.