Specter @SpecterDev

Interested in Security and Exploit Development. Nano is the one true text editor. dayzerosec.com 🇨🇦 Ontario Joined August 2015

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

@Dalio27776950 I’m not saying LLMs are not effective, but rather that it is taking away the reasons a lot of folks did console research. In many ways it overlaps with the same problem the CTF community has been facing.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

Please don’t take this or the replies as justification to personally attack anyone, this is mostly just a consequence of the times we’re in. It just makes me a bit sad and the situation is unfortunate.

Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

LLMs fracturing the console research space feels like a good litmus test of where we're at lmao. The future is slop and the fun is dead.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

@goplayfull @ElnTskX3 Agreed, this extends way beyond console stuff and I’m soap boxing a bit. But this has and will continue to drive talented researchers away. People do console research for fun not day jobs, LLMs have basically corporatized it.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

LLMs fracturing the console research space feels like a good litmus test of where we're at lmao. The future is slop and the fun is dead.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

@ElnTskX3 Or rather, trashed by people using LLMs who cannot comprehend the amount of effort and passion that went into these things in the past. And they're only able to use LLMs to do this because it basically stole and trained on all the past work done by people like flow.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

@ElnTskX3 Maybe if you step back for a second and re-read your own words, you can understand. Pre-LLMs people were not so reckless and careless about burning other people's stuff because a lot of time and effort needed to be put in. Hundreds of hours, years of expertise. Trashed by LLMs.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a week ago

@sioslayer Shocking news alert: most people who previously did console research did it for the fun of finding out how things work and digging into things. Prompting a chatbot and bruteforcing solutions isn't very fun or rewarding. I'm sure the piracy kids are thrilled though.

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Specter @SpecterDev

3 weeks ago

But r/blackops2 said devkits/testkits have special magic that makes them impossible to ban so this can't be true

LM @LightningMods_

3 weeks ago

There's been a rumor going around that the dev/testkits that were banned were banned because they used a specific update file, the truth is the kits that were banned were banned because they were cheating online and anyone that suggests differently is coping

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Specter @SpecterDev

3 weeks ago

@viperbjk This is a general pattern I see in a lot of LLM-built things not just exploits. Tools/software are like this too, if you take things it builds out of the box it'll work on your machine but as soon as its not in an identical environment things break immediately

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Specter @SpecterDev

a month ago

@xoreaxeaxeax There some things I’m puzzled on with this. Does this only work on pre-zen CPUs? Readme hints it may work on later but there’s not much info I could see. I’m also confused on PSP impact? AFAIK most sensitive info is in SRAM not DRAM, and idk if fTPM is used on CPUs this old?

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Specter @SpecterDev

4 months ago

@LiveOverflow I think the problem is that this feeling for many expands beyond just CTFs, they're just the best example of it. It's really hard to feel proud of your work when you see people doing what used to take you weeks in 1 day of prompting. & idk if there's a good solution there either.

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Specter @SpecterDev

5 months ago

@FriedgeHNIC lmao

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fail0verflow @fail0verflow

6 months ago

Method we used (>5 years ago, now) on ps5 to fiddle with mp4 and hv memory: github.com/fail0verflow/p… hope it helps for linux!

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Ryan M @Grimdoomer

6 months ago

Incredible talk on hacking the Xbox One security processor youtube.com/watch?v=FTFn4U…

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Specter @SpecterDev

9 months ago

Played @tihmstar's custom beatsaber song, 10/10 would play again

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Specter @SpecterDev

a year ago

@Spillfreaks I might be able to get some compensation but even if I can, it'll probably be impossible to get the proper value for them since these models are harder to acquire and pricier than MSRP.

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Specter @SpecterDev

a year ago

Some people already know this, but thought I'd mention here too... unfortunately basically all of my low fw PS5s got stolen recently, so I'm not sure what my future in console research will look like. Replacing this stuff might be too be difficult & expensive to be worth it :(

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Specter @SpecterDev

a year ago

@_AlAzif Which is extra dumb considering its a proprietary syscall so any public models wouldn't have any hope of having any information about it

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Specter @SpecterDev

2 years ago

My @dayzerosec co-host zi and I are giving our 1st training @ hardwear.io with a focus on attacking security hypervisors! Trainings are something we've wanted to do for a while. Take a look and share to those who would be interested :) hardwear.io/usa-2025/train…

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hardwear.io @hardwear_io

2 years ago

We have a training by @SpecterDev & Zi on Attacking Hypervisors From KVM to Mobile Security Platforms hardwear.io/usa-2025/train…

Specter @SpecterDev

2 years ago

I've published a write-up on reversing and analyzing Samsung's H-Arx hypervisor architecture for Exynos devices, which has had a lot of changes in recent years and pretty interesting design. Hope you all enjoy :) dayzerosec.com/blog/2025/03/0…