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On October 23rd, 2008, Nintendo released an update that fixed the [[signing bug]] in every publicly-known IOS, disabling any direct methods to install unofficial content on all updated Wiis. Team Twiizers decided to take the opportunity to use one of their stockpiled IOS exploits to get the [[Homebrew Channel]] working with this update. These stockpiled exploits differ from fakesigning in that they directly exploit the IOS runtime, injecting code that lets us take control and disable signatures altogether. Therefore, this was the first released IOS code execution exploit.

On October 23rd, 2008, Nintendo released an update that fixed the [[signing bug]] in every publicly-known IOS, disabling any direct methods to install unofficial content on all updated Wiis. Team Twiizers decided to take the opportunity to use one of their stockpiled IOS exploits to get the [[Homebrew Channel]] working with this update. These stockpiled exploits differ from fakesigning in that they directly exploit the IOS runtime, injecting code that lets us take control and disable signatures altogether. Therefore, this was the first released IOS code execution exploit.

In order to hinder Nintendo’s attempts at fixing it, and to avoid misuse by warez kiddies, sven and I had a lot of fun obfuscating the exploit over a couple afternoons. We decided not to release information about it, hoping it would last long enough to be useful for future installers and BootMii.

In order to hinder Nintendo’s attempts at fixing it, and to avoid misuse by warez kiddies, sven and marcan had a lot of fun obfuscating the exploit over a couple afternoons. We decided not to release information about it, hoping it would last long enough to be useful for future installers and BootMii.

The [[System Menu 4.0]] update eliminated the STM Release Exploit, but it was still left undocumented. Team Twiizers eventually proposed a challenge: the exploit would be documented when someone “broke” the obfuscation and figured out how the exploit works. The intent was to promote reverse engineering and also see just how long it would take people to crack it. An anonymous hacker successfully reverse engineered our layers of obfuscation.

The [[System Menu 4.0]] update eliminated the STM Release Exploit, but it was still left undocumented. Team Twiizers eventually proposed a challenge: the exploit would be documented when someone “broke” the obfuscation and figured out how the exploit works. The intent was to promote reverse engineering and also see just how long it would take people to crack it. An anonymous hacker successfully reverse engineered their layers of obfuscation.

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