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jofra01
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Bushing over at www.hackmii.com who is basically one of the people that has had much to do with Wii Hacking, like the HBC and other things I think had recently sent Nintendo this letter:

Dear Nintendo

As part of our efforts to understand how the Wii works, we believe we
have found a security issue that could allow pirated Wii games to be
played on an unmodified Wii console.

I would like to speak to an engineer about this — please have one contact me.

Sincerely,
bushing


Bushing then received an email from Nintendo, who were using an email address that was nintendo61@gmail.com and this was there response:

First of we do not support what you are doing, but since you found
a issue that could allow pirated Wii games.

We have to see to patch this as fast as possible, So what is
this security issue you want to talk about.

Tyson Green
www.nintendo.com/
NOA


So how do you feel about a Wii Hacker who has helped the HomeBrew scene now show Nintendo a flaw in their Wii which they would update to stop pirated games on a unmodified Wii and also probably destroy the Homebrew Channel.
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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Matteh
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Well...Bushing may have love for Nintendo and there security? lol. But I do think it is strange that he is doing this, after all, he has hacked the Wii 10 times over.

Lol @ first line nintendo said to bushing: Firts of all, we do not support what you are doing.

But I doubt he would have done this so that Nintendo can stop homebrew.

=D
21/07/2008
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Matteh said: Well...Bushing may have love for Nintendo and there security? lol. But I do think it is strange that he is doing this, after all, he has hacked the Wii 10 times over.

Lol @ first line nintendo said to bushing: Firts of all, we do not support what you are doing.

But I doubt he would have done this so that Nintendo can stop homebrew.

=D



Nintendo would probably tell him they will only stop the security breach but will stab him in the back and destroy the HB stuff while they are at it
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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jofra01 said:

So how do you feel about a Wii Hacker who has helped the HomeBrew scene now show Nintendo a flaw in their Wii which they would update to stop pirated games on a unmodified Wii and also probably destroy the Homebrew Channel.



Im pretty sure he was messing with nintendo having fun..

doubt they really found a way

21/07/2008
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Matteh
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jofra01 said:Nintendo would probably tell him they will only stop the security breach but will stab him in the back and destroy the HB stuff while they are at it



But if that were true. They would do it with the next Wii Update right? Hopefully Bushing can only say the necessary parts and not anything else. I know that he has to say a fair bit of info to them, but hopefully he doesnt say something to nintendo that tells them about his hackings.

=D
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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hamzie said:

jofra01 said:

So how do you feel about a Wii Hacker who has helped the HomeBrew scene now show Nintendo a flaw in their Wii which they would update to stop pirated games on a unmodified Wii and also probably destroy the Homebrew Channel.



Im pretty sure he was messing with nintendo having fun..

doubt they really found a way



actually if you read comments he made about it and stuff he is serious as he don't really support piracy and the new custom firmware for Wii is I belive that security breach as soon it will allow people to play pirated games on their unmodded Wii.

But you never know he might be bored and whats Nintendo to update what he has hacked so he gets a better challenge at hacking things.
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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hamzie said:

jofra01 said:

So how do you feel about a Wii Hacker who has helped the HomeBrew scene now show Nintendo a flaw in their Wii which they would update to stop pirated games on a unmodified Wii and also probably destroy the Homebrew Channel.



Im pretty sure he was messing with nintendo having fun..

doubt they really found a way



I dont know..
It seems logical for him to do this.
He probably doesnt have his own wii chip and wants it to stop?
We will see sooner or later.
21/07/2008
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I think people should bombard that email address then really.

There's gotta be a job at Nintendo waiting for him after this,
Or at least maybe that's what he's hoping for
21/07/2008
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Matteh
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Yer, he may have found this hole in security and think that his fun is over because now he has control, maybe he wants the pleasure of working extra and trying new ways to get inside the system.

But this is like...you knowing that you will beat someone in chess, but saying to them a way that they can beat you in one turn. Its quite dumb IMO.

=D

E: Lol Matster, but they may be half true...maybe he is desperate for a job there and showing nintendo that he could do this to the wii and that he found a security hole with it just may be what nintendo are looking for, an expert programmer.
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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This is probably fake.

Why would nintendo use a gmail company when they are professional? they would have their own email domain.
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jofra01
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euro2008 said: This is probably fake.

Why would nintendo use a gmail company when they are professional? they would have their own email domain.



your joking me right lol, they would probably use it so they don't give out the real Nintendo Email things
21/07/2008
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"We have to see to patch this as fast as possible, So what is
this security issue you want to talk about.


Being a professional company, I'm sure they would use a lower-case s instead of an upper-case "S" after the comma. And when asking a question, they would use a Question Mark.

I'm going, FAKE!
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Azza123 said: "We have to see to patch this as fast as possible, So what is

this security issue you want to talk about.

Being a professional company, I'm sure they would use a lower-case s instead of an upper-case "S" after the comma. And when asking a question, they would use a Question Mark.

I'm going, FAKE!



I agree and it does not sound like proper english "Have to see"
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sjt333
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what nintendo branch was it sent to cause that might explain it (bad translation)
21/07/2008
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jofra01
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well people here is a link to the thing directly and you can read all the comments and decide if real or not but here it is hackmii.com/
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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Lol, maybe they used a less intelligent person to send the email, and this less intelligent person doesnt know Nintendos proper email address

=D
21/07/2008
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This crap is fake. Noone who worked so extensively on finding exploits for the Wii for the use of piracy and homebrew would stupidly just report it to Nintendo like that. That and Nintendo employees would not use a public email service like GMail, they *DO* have their own domain.
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jofra01
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Draggyn said: This crap is fake. Noone who worked so extensively on finding exploits for the Wii for the use of piracy and homebrew would stupidly just report it to Nintendo like that. That and Nintendo employees would not use a public email service like GMail, they *DO* have their own domain.



This person however is fully against piracy and has said that he will try and stop it anyway he can pretty much
21/07/2008
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jofra01 said:


Draggyn said: This crap is fake. Noone who worked so extensively on finding exploits for the Wii for the use of piracy and homebrew would stupidly just report it to Nintendo like that. That and Nintendo employees would not use a public email service like GMail, they *DO* have their own domain.


This person however is fully against piracy and has said that he will try and stop it anyway he can pretty much



But if he is against piracy...then why hack into the wii and show others how to? I dont wanna start a bushing related arguement, but...if he is agaisnt piracy, wouldnt u be against hacking too?

=D
21/07/2008
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jofra01 said: This person however is fully against piracy and has said that he will try and stop it anyway he can pretty much



Then if it's real, I wish him luck. I'd like to see piracy stamped out or at least knocked down a peg.
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Matteh said:

jofra01 said:



Draggyn said: This crap is fake. Noone who worked so extensively on finding exploits for the Wii for the use of piracy and homebrew would stupidly just report it to Nintendo like that. That and Nintendo employees would not use a public email service like GMail, they *DO* have their own domain.



This person however is fully against piracy and has said that he will try and stop it anyway he can pretty much



But if he is against piracy...then why hack into the wii and show others how to? I dont wanna start a bushing related arguement, but...if he is agaisnt piracy, wouldnt u be against hacking too?

=D



he wants people to enjoy the Wii more but without piracy
21/07/2008
Captain Rainbow
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So...like...he thinks people will enjoy the Wii if they steal from nintendo with the wad installer and stuff? But isnt that still classed as piracy?

Meh..either way, I enjoy what he does.

=D
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Matteh said: So...like...he thinks people will enjoy the Wii if they steal from nintendo with the wad installer and stuff? But isnt that still classed as piracy?

Meh..either way, I enjoy what he does.

=D

*facepalm* hacking and piracy are two different things
21/07/2008
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sjt333 said:


Matteh said: So...like...he thinks people will enjoy the Wii if they steal from nintendo with the wad installer and stuff? But isnt that still classed as piracy?
Meh..either way, I enjoy what he does.
=D

*facepalm* hacking and piracy are two different things



Yer I know that, but what I was saying before, about letting people steal from nintendo, that piracy because of backing up games and downloading, etc.

=D
21/07/2008
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the hackers that arent poor hack consoles to add extra functionality to said console IE ability to play homebrew games etc
21/07/2008
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