Nintendo DS Trojan Creator Apologizes

Mike wrote to mention an apology from the creator of the DS Trojan. From the article: "I won't release any more of this crap for DS and I don't think parts of this trojan or the idea itself will emerge in future homebrew releases. The point is probably clear. Do not run any form of untrusted code that just suddenly appears without any name."

Comments

A term that I coined to describe idiot users.

[kdark1701]

'Darwinian Computing'

Re:Meh. It's no consolation.

[stonecypher]

I know these things are difficult for anonymous cowards. Let me explain.

1) I didn't know the full extent of what was going on back then. I was under the impression it was a software rollback, and even then I was pretty pissed.

2) We don't act on our own. I was waiting until I talked to other ops before I acted. Luckily, I didn't have to; someone else did. That said, if I banned a regular without talking to the channel owner, I would have been a giant asshole. What I did was to act carefully.

I do remain relatively amused how badly thieves react to the tool. Nonetheless, if you bother to read what I said, I was trying to get DarkFader to release a tool to identify the bad rom. Did you bother to think about why, or who it was that reported these to the antivirus companies?

Don't bother replying if you're too much of a coward to admit who you are. I suspect your name starts with an N and ends with a D, though.