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

Argh

[pclminion]

Now this is way offtopic, I know, but it irks me to hell. Please don't abuse the concept of Darwinism.

Just because an idiot's computer explodes doesn't prevent him/her from having children who are also idiots.

Similarly, it's in vogue on Fark to call Darwin on some moron who kills himself in a ridiculous fashion. Ha ha, except that if said moron has already begotten a few children, then Darwin didn't win in that case, did he?

It's only Darwinism if you're killed before you have a chance to produce offspring. "78 year old dies in fiery jet ski accident" inevitably leads to cries of "Darwin wins again!" And yet this 78 year old has 9 grandchildren. My God, people cannot grasp this concept.

oh thank goodness.

[JVert]

He is sorry. Good news!

Whew! Dodged that bullet aye?

Re:Just so you know.

[Guppy06]

"I still recommend that my clients purchase a Nintendo DS"

"Clients?" So you contract your entertainment-reccomending skills out for a living, or are you just a GameWhore employee who thinks he's a little more important than he really is?

Why Not Link to the Original SIte

[Anonymous Coward]

Slashdot newsposters, please understand that the correct site for this news/apology was http://darkfader.net/ and not the ContentHoldings.com/Freepsp scam machine, i myself found the newsposted on the Nintendo DS news site http://nintendo-ds.dcemu.co.uk/ / http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t= 12308 on the 13th and the site you linked copied the news off them. But anyways what Darkfader did was terrible and if anyone had their DS Bricked then according to the site i linked to above their is a site who repair dead Nintendo DS consoles heres the link http://www.aheadgames.com/ Lets hope this never happens again

next console battleground?

[Somegeek]

What if this becomes the next battleground for console makers?

What if MS realizes that they can write and untraceably release a Trojan that would kill Playstations? Who would stick to a certain console brand if it kept getting infected after every few weeks of online play and you had to keep exchanging it for a new one? How long could Sony stay in business in such a situation?

If you were in a multi-billion dollar battle how far would you go to win?

Weird

[Gogo0]

It is kind of funny that the guy who released this trojan for the DS is the same guy that has done some of the most important DS hacking in the homebrew scene.

Most notably:
He made the first PassMe to run homebrew code in DS mode.
He hacked and released the GBAMP firmware to allow .nds files to be run from a flash card.

This guy has done a HUGE amount of work and made homebrew (DSLinux, Moonshell, touchscreen ports of Doom, Heretic, etc) possible on the DS. He is easily the all-around most important person in the scene.

*sigh*

[Wraithfighter]

This is the argument hackers use to claim the high ground: "I only did this to show everyone to be careful!" And yet, if it weren't for the trojan makers and hackers, we wouldn't need so much security. You make malicious code and release it into the web, YOU are responsible. Even if its obvious that the users shouldn't download the code, the problem wouldn't exist were it not for you.