[HN Gopher] Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit "paid the beak"
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       Wii U SDBoot1 Exploit "paid the beak"
        
       Author : sjuut
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2025-07-18 20:30 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (consolebytes.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (consolebytes.com)
        
       | shoghicp wrote:
       | Mirror (site seems down) https://archive.is/92OIx
        
       | fuomag9 wrote:
       | This was an amazing read!
        
       | bri3d wrote:
       | This reminds me a lot of the PSP Pandora's Battery: a special
       | factory "boot from external flash" system with exploitable
       | vulnerabilities - on PSP, the special Pandora's Battery "JigKick"
       | serial number 0xFFFFFFFF or the factory battery
       | challenge/response "Baryon Sweeper" on newer consoles, followed
       | by a rather complicated exploit in the "ipl.bin" signature
       | checking process on the external hardware. On the Wii U, the
       | "unstable power" battery jig followed by a simple overflow in
       | SDBoot1.
       | 
       | https://www.psdevwiki.com/psp/Pandora
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       | https://github.com/khubik2/pysweeper
        
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