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Hacking The DS's Wireless
xNoLaNx writes "Darkain, maker of the remote control program for Winamp, RM-X, has been working day and night hacking the Nintendo DS and its wireless, and making a custom USB power connection for it. He has been able to monitor packets over 802.11b coming from PictoChat and more."
Samba was created by only "sniffing packets."
Cool! It would be just like a cellphone! Except it would be really expensive, not have a good form factor for this type of use. And now you can't even play games on it. ;-)
Umm, its called learning, maybe if you had a fun hobbie you wouldnt be posting such lame posts on slashdot.
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Nintendo guards its intellectual property very closely. That's why it took so long for GameCube bsd and linux to come out- and they're still not as functional as xbox linux. I'm sure Nintendo has made it so that it would make more sense to "hack" or even just buy peripherals for a Palm/palmtop than to try to make DS useful.
A mouse would suffice for that. That'll require the rest of the DS' controls to be shifted to the keyboard, which isn't ideal but should be enough to make it playable.
Ita erat quando hic adveni.
Of course there may arise the potential of travel risks for this guy.
For example, how will this affect is ability to travel freely to and (perhaps more importantly) from the USA?
*cough*DMCA*cough*
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Do you realize if this was an Apple computer, people would be saying "why must you people spoil it for the rest of us".
I realize that's not strictly relevant, but funny nontheless.
No, what Nintendo should do (and undoubtedly has done) is only allow signed applets to run, and try to keep the signature out of the hands of people like us. That's the most logical way for them to set up the system.