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NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims
wiredmikey writes "Following a shutdown of its 'NVIDIA Developer Zone,' earlier this week after the online community for developers had been hacked, the graphics chip maker on Friday also shut down its online store. The group of hackers behind the attack, going by the handle of 'The Apollo Project,' made mention of the claimed compromise in its original post exhibiting its successful attack against the NVIDIA Developer Zone site. While the company has shut down the online store, it has not acknowledged that a successful attack has taken place. 'NVIDIA has suspended operation of the NVIDIA Gear Store (store.nvidia.com) as a precaution, following confirmed attacks on several of our other sites,' read a statement posted on the site posted. The claimed attackers wrote, 'We aren't acting extremely maliciously, we've used this database to target disgusting corporations who deserve to be brought to justice.. and we are getting there, slowly but surely.'"
Justice doesn't mean "punishment for illegal actions," it means punishment for immoral action. The legal structure has co-opted this term, and conflated it with law. Please don't let that interfere with your thinking.
That said, I don't see what heinous actions Nvidia has taken. Then again, I also have not read the article.
It's not just what's mentioned in the summary.
http://pastebin.com/G21ytATD
What's disgusting about NVIDIA? Is this related to Linus' public flogging of the company?
I interned there a few years ago and their explanation for the driver not being open sourced is true, though it might not please people. The bulk of the driver code is in a platform-agnostic library used by Windows, OSX, and Linux. This code is then adapted to each platform by a small separate team. This means that the Linux driver doesn't lag the Windows driver in support. Unfortunately it also means that to add the driver into the kernel they'd need a disjoint and likely non-trivial effort to refactor and keep the kernel version up to par. I won't judge who is in the right ideologically here, but to call it "disgusting" shows a gross lack of perspective.
Exactly. NVidia hasn't done anything of note except produce good video cards and GPUs.
They must be disgruntled about 3DFX like I am.
3DFX has no one to blame for their downfall but themselves. (This is coming from a former 3DFX fanboy.)
They blew a TON of cash buying the card maker STB, a manufacturer that had major quality issues.
Their Direct X support was rubbish, instead they concentrated on Glide.
They took waaaay too long to get the Voodoo 4/5 to market, and then another 6 months of paper release.
And lastly they concentrated solely on the high end market. Nvidia made bank from their low cost Riva and TNT lines selling to OEMs which gave them money and time to come out with their GeForce line. By the time the GeForce 2 came out, 3DFX had blundered their way into bankruptcy.
Three months after I finally got my hands on a brand new Voodoo 5500, 3DFX folded up shop.