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Nintendo DS Trojan Creator Apologizes

Posted by Zonk on from the shouldn't-oughta-have-done-that dept.

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."

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  1. Why Not Link to the Original SIte by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    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

  2. next console battleground? by Somegeek · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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?

    --
    And as you tread the halls of sanity, You feel so glad to be, Unable to go beyond. I have a message, From another time..
  3. Weird by Gogo0 · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.