• Lojcs@piefed.social
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    6 hours ago

    Why is it always game consoles that get these leaks and not like, phone firmware or gpu vbios

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      4 hours ago

      As someone else pointed out, there’s a shit ton of different phones. In 2012 alone, how many different “Samsung Galaxy …” did samsung release? Wikipedia lists 6

      That’s 1 company, with 1 brand name in 1 year. Each with different hardware and as of late those phones have been harder and harder to even open. However, there’s a handful of models of “PS5” standard, slim, pro. They are also very easy to open requiring regular tools your average joe is likely to have, in fact sony encourages this in case you want to upgrade your SSD. It’s a lot harder to keep a system secure if the user can poke and prod the hardware, i mean the Wii’s security was literally beaten by tweezers

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      6 hours ago

      I think it’s just the amount of love for game consoles is much higher than phones, where people are a bit complacent.

      I do agree it should happen more often.

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        5 hours ago

        Also there are SO many phones.

        There’s only a few ps5s. I’m not sure if they share the same code that’s been leaked here but probably.

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      5 hours ago

      Consoles have extremely limited variations, less variables to mess with. A ps5 is a ps5, but a Samsung Galaxy 25 isn’t the same as a Samsung Galaxy FE25

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        But if Samsung’s firmware keys or whatever leaked, wouldn’t that apply to all of them? It’s not like they reinvent all their infrastructure for each phone.

        Actually, I take it back. These things do happen in the mobile world, they’re just not released publicly. Celebrite etc just gobble them up