joe_guy
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
Ironic, given their website showed me two unrequested popups.
That being accessible wasn't the mistake. It was all properly secured. It rejected your commands and everything has to be signed by Nintendo's private key. But Nvidia firmware had a buffer overflow bug inside of it that allowed arbitrary code execution.
More details: https://blog.gistre.epita.fr/posts/victor-emmanuel.provost-2...
Bunny, the person who originally hacked the Xbox also wrote a great book on the subject they've since made free: https://bunniefoo.com/nostarch/HackingTheXbox_Free.pdf
If you enjoyed that book they have written others.
A more limited context of course.
But I suspect the false positives on this would be huge and if you felt so compelled could easily test while at your desk.
A program like Uber Eats has a bit less benefit to allowing such controls over what they send you. While they do still break down messages by type, their descriptions are a bit cryptic and after getting an unsolicited notification from it, I ended up disabling all of them.