{"id":13271,"date":"2018-02-20T00:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/hackers_turn_the_nintendo_switch_into_a_functioning_linux_tablet"},"modified":"2018-02-20T00:05:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T00:05:00","slug":"hackers-turn-the-nintendo-switch-into-a-functioning-linux-tablet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/02\/20\/hackers-turn-the-nintendo-switch-into-a-functioning-linux-tablet\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Turn The Nintendo Switch Into A Functioning Linux Tablet"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Hack the planet\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/hackers_turn_the_switch_into_a_functioning_linux_tablet\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/02\/hackers_turn_the_switch_into_a_functioning_linux_tablet\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Hack the planet\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s reputation for fighting hackers every step of the way in commendable, but it would seem that by pairing itself with tech giant Nvidia &#8211; whose Tegra silicon powers the console &#8211; the Japanese giant is going have to accept that things aren&#8217;t as nailed-down as they used to be.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve already seen hackers exploit weaknesses in the Switch&#8217;s architecture to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/01\/video_retro_emulation_finally_comes_to_switch_following_homebrew_hacking_efforts\">install emulators<\/a>, and now the fail0verflow hacking group has revealed a video of Linux running on the console. This extends to full touchscreen support and a web browser.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Code execution is all the rage these days, but can your Switch do *this*? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/switchnix?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#switchnix<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NMnBq61tOM\">pic.twitter.com\/NMnBq61tOM<\/a><\/span>\u2014 fail0verflow (@fail0verflow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fail0verflow\/status\/964954316892119040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 17, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>fail0verflow claims that the exploit used to bypass the Switch\u2019s security cannot be patched on the current model of the console, but hasn&#8217;t so far released details on how the hack works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo&#8217;s reputation for fighting hackers every step of the way in commendable, but it would seem that by pairing itself with tech giant Nvidia &#8211; whose Tegra silicon powers the console &#8211; the Japanese giant is going have to accept that things aren&#8217;t as nailed-down as they used to be. We&#8217;ve already seen hackers exploit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}