How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparably blowing its own fuses

Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by adrr on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:33AM (#23537029)

What happens if some hacker finds a remote exploit and starts blowing all the fuses on people's devices?

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Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by Maxious on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @04:40AM (#23537063)

Local exploits are popular anyway, trick people into downloading the latest game which just wipes out the operating system https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/07/fake_nintendo_swit...

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Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by kiplkipl on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @09:09AM (#23538713)

Then they can already brick your device by replacing the firmware.

This is the reason for threat models. Don't waste your time worrying about theoretical but redundant attacks.

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Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by londons_explore on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @06:26AM (#23537532)

If this was widespread, Nintendo would just release a firmware without fuse checks.

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Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by roblabla on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:27AM (#23538302)

More like, they'd just release a firmware without the remote exploit in the first place. The consoles that got their fuses wiped would be bricked anyways, you wouldn't be able to install the firmware without fuse-checks on it through normal methods (Nintendo, however, could replace them easily).

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Re:How the Nintendo Switch prevents downgrades by irreparabl... by m-p-3 on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @11:52AM (#23540623)

A massive recall and a world of hurt for Nintendo and Nvidia

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