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Re:Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a... by kuzehanka on Monday April 29, 2019 @11:51PM (#19785018)
> never once mention its secret purpose as a jailbreak

The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already. I don't think the secret purpose was to be a jailbreak.

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Re:Indie Game Removed from Switch After Dev Reveals It Has a... by beefhash on Tuesday April 30, 2019 @12:14AM (#19785117)
> The switch is completely thoroughly irreversibly jailbroken at the hardware level already.

This has been fixed in hardware revisions since about a year ago. Getting a unit that is vulnerable to the so-called RCM exploit has become increasingly difficult.

(The boot9strap exploit against the 3DS, on the other hand, was never fixed. One wonders why.)

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