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Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by ClumsyPilot on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:02AM (#27206521)
Do game pirates make 10 million from hacking a game?

Because miners do.

Re:Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 307... by smoldesu on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @01:28PM (#27211700)
It's certainly not for lack of trying. Fail0verflow, one of the largest and most successful CTF teams in the world, spent nearly 2 years trying to reverse engineer the bootloader, and ended up never finding any real security exploits in the process. There were warmboot attacks (see Fusee-Gelee) that involved code injection, but even then the machine would still recognize it was running in debug mode, and block the user from access to certain functions. Besides being a great anecdote here, the history of Switch hacking is really interesting, and well worth looking into if you have the time.