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Tuesday 17-Jul-2007 10:55 AM Holes in Wii's security could allow homebrew software to run on Wii

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Hackers have reportedly found a new loophole in the Wii's Internet Channel that could allow the running of unsigned, home-made code on the console.

Apparently the exploit lies at the heart of the Flash Player (the software used for watching Flash-encoded video - like on YouTube) embedded within the Wii's web browser, and could allow the homebrew scene that's rife on PSP to kick off on Nintendo's hardware.

This could, among other things, lead to the creation of game emulators on the console - a disaster for the Virtual Console, which charges gamers to play games from Nintendo's huge retro library.

Nintendo was unavailable for comment at the time of writing, but we expect Nintendo to take hasty action to prevent the hackers achieving their sneaky goals. Of course, you'll invalidate your warrantee if you hack your Wii, so you probably shouldn't.

Mike Jackson

// Interactive

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It's funny reading this after reading some agreements about this sort of thing when finally getting my Wii online over the weekend.

deadmartyr on 17 Jul '07

lets hope nintendo gives us an update for the internet channel, hopefully that has the newest flash plug-in

P_3te-r on 17 Jul '07

SWEET!!! snes and n64 emulation would be most welcome,seeing as nintendo have completely ruined the pal vc. we might get 60hz f-zero then. Very Happy

ste hicky on 17 Jul '07

can you not bat the hackers away with the wiimote?

chris_gower on 17 Jul '07

Phew i thought it was going to be something important like poeple being able to steal my Mii's. Their mine i tell yeh!

maugrim2712 on 17 Jul '07

Woops, that's a bit silly. The only people that are gonna make use of this are those who want to use emulators cos they're poor or sad enough to notice the difference between 50Hz and 60Hz.