A good paper, but I think it could have used a little more detail. There was a long, complicated cat & mouse game between hackers and Nintendo, and a lot of that was glossed over to focus on individual exploits.<p>In particular, there's no mention of Gateway or the MSET exploit they used to get the first foothold in the 3DS ecosystem.<p>The discussion on arm9loaderhax also doesn't make it clear that the exploitable arm9loader was introduced for the New 3DS as a reaction to previous hacking efforts. The humorousness of it making the console vulnerable to a new and more powerful exploit was explained more clearly in the 3DS hacking talk at 32c3,