Comment on Nintendo warns that it can brick Switch consoles if it detects hacking, piracy
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
I am no fan of this at all…
…but…
Hasn’t… basically every internet capable console been capable of hardware ID level banning itself, upon detecting being tampered with, at least to some extent?
Like I have no interest in a Switch as a gamer, but this basically reads as a gauntlet off the hand, thrown to the ground challenge to hardware hackers.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Banning is fine, we’re talking about remote bricking. If I hack my Xbox, I’m fine with not being allowed to use it to join msft’s network, but I am not fine with them identifying my hacked device over the internet and actively sending some sort of backdoor self-destruct instruction to it. To me that’s a violation of the CFAA.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Ah.
Yes.
That… is a little bit more insane.
Welp.
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 month ago
You do realise that long ago MSFT switched from being a desktop software company to cloud and telemetry, right? Win10 and Win11 were free, and Azure isn’t exactly driving them into the ground.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
Are you responding to the comment you think you’re responding to?
Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 month ago
Yeah, I was.