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NVIDIA Kills Online Store In Response To Hacker Claims

Posted by Soulskill on from the have-you-tried-updating-your-drivers dept.

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.'"

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  1. Vigilante circus. by Ostracus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.'"

    1-what crime?

    2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

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    1. Re:Vigilante circus. by Jailbrekr · · Score: 2

      Exactly. NVidia hasn't done anything of note except produce good video cards and GPUs.

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    2. Re:Vigilante circus. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Exactly. NVidia hasn't done anything of note except produce good video cards and GPUs.

      They must be disgruntled about 3DFX like I am.

    3. Re:Vigilante circus. by Darkness404 · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Don't like nVidia's prices? Don't buy it. Last time I checked nVidia didn't hold a gun to your head and force you to put in a new nVidia graphics card.

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    4. Re:Vigilante circus. by Mashiki · · Score: 3, Insightful

      1-what crime?

      2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

      Despite that I'll be modded into oblivion for this. This isn't any different that what OWS protesters have been doing for months on end, and it hasn't been any different than what the student protesters have been doing in Quebec have been doing for months on end. In both cases they've been going off the deep end and getting more violent, believing that "corporations" or "schools" or "wall street" need to be brought to justice for crimes against who knows what. I'm sure the grievances are very valid in their minds, and whatever they tell themselves, or are being told by whatever professor or community organizer or handler is telling them to believe, but that doesn't make it so.

      As for the question of "who died and made them the long arm of the law?" Well that's obvious, they made themselves the long arm of the law. This is the pure anti-corporatism of the left.

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    5. Re:Vigilante circus. by stevenh2 · · Score: 2

      Like Intel or AMD. They probably design their own chips and that costs more money then manufacturing them.

    6. Re:Vigilante circus. by girlintraining · · Score: 4, Insightful

      1-what crime?

      Making profit.

      2-Who died and made them the long arm of the law?

      Nobody died and they aren't the law.

      This isn't vigilantism, this is simple defacement and theft. Vigilantism is motivated by a desire for justice, and a perceived indifference or selective enforcement of laws. They haven't stated what crimes NVidia should be held accountable for; which means there probably aren't any. Some examples of what 'proper' vigilantism might be motivated by would be illegal dumping of toxic waste, mistreatment of their workforce, manipulation of stock prices, colluding with other manufacturers to fix the prices of key information commodities, or excerting monopoly powers over a market.

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    7. Re:Vigilante circus. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      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.

    8. Re:Vigilante circus. by DigiShaman · · Score: 3

      You must be talking about the Monster 3D II. The original Diamond Monster 3D was a Voodoo 1 card. SLI wasn't implemented until the Voodoo 2 series.

      Ok, turning back the wayback machine here. But here's a breakdown (from memory) of my old but much loved gaming rig. The year was late 1996

      CPU = Intel Pentium 166
      Motherboard = Biostar AT with 430FX chipset
      RAM = 24MB of EDO
      Audio = Sound Blaster AWE34 PnP (long ISA card with upgradable SIMM banks)
      Modem = USRobotics Sportster 33.6 (internal ISA card)
      Storage1 = 1GB Conner IDE HDD
      Storage2 = 4x CDROM IDE
      Storage3 = 3.25 1.44MB Floppy drive
      Video1 = Diamond Stealth64 Video S3-Vision968 PCI with 2MB (upgradable to 4MB) of VRAM.
      Video2 = Diamond Monster 3D
      Input = Microsoft serial mouse and some generic AT keyboard.

      That machine was a BOSS for its time. It owned all gaming back then. Never broke a sweat when playing Duke Nukem3D.

      Total cost = shitloads. Actually, I don't remember. My parents paid for the base build as a graduation present. I just paid for the gaming upgrades.

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    9. Re:Vigilante circus. by DigiShaman · · Score: 2

      To be fair, DirectX was still in it's infancy with version 2.0 that came with Window 95 OSR2. If you had the original version of Windows 95, DirectX was not included. It got installed with whatever application used it. Also, the Direct3D portion was extremely limited in functionality. Glide on the other hand was a very close cousin of OpenGL if I remember. In fact, a Voodoo1 card could run QuakeGL without trouble. Although it does beg the question as to why 3Dfx didn't just stick with OpenGL as the standard to begin with. Could be worse. It could have been worse. They could have ended up like Rendition with their own RRedline API.

      I'm still amazed that someone as new as nVidia could come in and take on the establishment that was S3, Rendition, 3Dfx, PowerVR, and Matrox. Eventually even leaving SGI to wither on the vine in obsolescence. Just wow!

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    10. Re:Vigilante circus. by Runaway1956 · · Score: 2

      If any of my computers had ever started sweating, I think I would have just quietly stood up, and backed away from the damned thing. Very quietly. And, backed very far away. Scary idea . . .

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  2. Forums are offline as well by Pop69 · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not just what's mentioned in the summary.

  3. Actual post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://pastebin.com/G21ytATD

  4. Not extremely maliciously? by svick · · Score: 2

    Let me get this straight. They're not acting extremely maliciously, they're only acting very maliciously?

  5. Crazed idiocy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

  6. Re:Sh*t happens... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So NVIDIA doesn't support your preferred OS in exactly the way you'd like, and therefore they deserve to have their systems broken into?