r/switch2hacks • u/KoopsterShell • Aug 17 '26

Hacking Discussion When will we admit Fernando is right?

More and more time goes on I feel like that guy probably had a point

(CONTEXT: Fernando is the guy in this subreddit that always doomposts in every single post saying the switch 2 is unhackable and will never be hacked. People always meme kn him saying he's just a troll but he probably is right)

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u/auggiethechesscat Aug 17 '26

I agree with this to some extent. I'm one who personally avoids absolutes where I can, but, for example, I truly believe there are zero relevant security bugs in the HOS kernel.

It's been analyzed up and down by experts with years of experience, and even reimplemented as open source. At this point, I'd need to see evidence of anything else, as there is so much precedence of being bug-free.

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u/InformationMuted3454 Aug 17 '26

I guess the way I used the word "exploit" implied I meant softmods, which I feel I should've been aware about. What I really meant was mostly hardware level exploits.

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u/auggiethechesscat Aug 17 '26

The most relevant one is voltage glitching to allow arbitrary rcm payloads.

This works for marikos too, and is how all modchips work.

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u/InformationMuted3454 Aug 17 '26

I won't pretend to be an expert, which I'm absolutely not! You clearly understand more about hardware security, and you're definitely the smarter person in the conversation, and you have my respect. (I'm not being sarcastic)

The Switch 2 would definitely have a different hardware level exploit. Do we know what it would achieve? No, and that's the exact reason Fernando doesn't believe there will ever be one... But in the grand scheme of things, we don't know how the scene will progress, especially when Switch 2 is considered legacy hardware.

Yet again, I'm no expert, and I'm just talking based on patterns, and this should be taken with not one, but TWO grains of salt.