Nintendo will pay $20,000 to Nintendrones to find "bugs" to counter future exploits on system

arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/12/nintendo-3ds-exploit-bounty/

>Hosted by San Francisco-based HackerOne—a bug bounty platform created by security staff from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google—the programme invites researchers to find and address security vulnerabilities in the 3DS. These include "dissemination of inappropriate content to children," cheating methods like "save data modification," and of course piracy via "game application dumping" and "copied game application execution."
>Hosted by San Francisco-based
>created by security staff from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google
why is it always shits from San FAGcisco and MegaCorp shills the ones ruining shit?

bgr.com/2016/12/06/nintendo-3ds-piracy-cartridge-r4-bounty/
>that bounty list

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It's about 2 years too late to for then to start doing this, espically at the end of the system's life cycle.

Surprised they didn't do this earlier, nearly every company does that
>$20,000
That's actually kind of a small fee, but again, on one hand it being this late shouldn't be that rewarding, but on the other hand, finding "bugs" and "exploits" this far in is rare and hard as shit so for that it's kind of low.

Why is Nintendo so anti-consumer?

Only 20k? Cheap bastards.

Switch will have the exact same problems and they want to patch up as many holes as they can

This
It's maybe a day's worth of amiibo sales

>Nintendrones
OBSESSED

>editing save data is on the same level as piracy

>nintendo's face after sun/moon got leaked 2 weeks early

and then this happened.

>created by security staff from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google
yeah, i must be a drone from company

stupid platform warrior

lol, it starts at $100 and you might get $20k, and a day after this bug bounty program was announced an all new DSiWare exploit was released which let's you use pretty much any DSiWare game to downgrade your 3DS if you're on 11+

They're just scared about the talk that's going to be given at that hacker con soon, last time there was a talk it led to a9lh and they want to nip it in the bud.

This is so stupid. This is why I know I'll never get "caught" by Nintendo. They don't even know how to fucking google "How to hack a 3ds" why don't this just buy a already modded 3ds/Wii u and see what makes the hack work. Shit there is a idiot proof guide on how to mod these. Why not look at that and see where the security issue is. This witch hunt they are trying to push is just somthing they are doing to scare people into thinking they are finally on to you.

but this is a universal problem though, started with Kikebook and M$.

I think people could unban themselves though.

google gave the same ammount

yeah but all they did was a blanket ban, they can't tell who's using CIA and what's legit because they keys are universal and stored locally on the device.

they don't need to it's completely documented and the source code is available on github

this is what happens when Nintendo bans their employees from using systems like XBOX Live and PSN, that's right their employees aren't even allowed to know how those systems work at the customer level.

google gives $200k not 20

>this is what happens when Nintendo bans their employees from using systems like XBOX Live and PSN, that's right their employees aren't even allowed to know how those systems work at the customer level.

citation needed

>can run bootcode and CFW so updates are no longer a problem
>can download games directly off their server


Isn't it a little late?


you can unban

>this is what happens when Nintendo bans their employees from using systems like XBOX Live and PSN
Surely you jest.

I wish

>This was surprising to hear, as we would have thought that they had plenty of time to work on these features as it had been announced months before, so we probed a little deeper and asked how certain scenarios might work with the Mii friends and networking, all the time referencing how Xbox Live and PSN achieve the same thing. At some point in this conversation we were informed that it was no good referencing Live and PSN as nobody in their development teams used those systems (!) so could we provide more detailed explanations for them? My only thought after this call was that they were struggling - badly - with the networking side as it was far more complicated than they anticipated. They were trying to play catch-up with the rival systems, but without the years of experience to back it up.

eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-secret-developers-wii-u-the-inside-story

>cfwfags are able to bypass the ban
>buyfags who bought the game early from momNpop stores are fucked
Lel

user this has to be a lie.

Is bypassing this ban really only doable by wiping everything with the system transfer method?

>$20,000
what

nintendo is truly cheap

do it yourself

>>buyfags who bought the game early from momNpop stores are fucked

Que? buyfags got banned?

You mean they did not even bother to ask third party that were already in the know about those systems? Just start from scratch?

Why the fuck would any business willingly do that?

cuz Nintendo, they aren't even aware of what Xbox Live and PSN offer

No, Ive unbanned myself twice now never lost anything

Holy shit. Kek this is Nintendo. What a bunch of fucking idiots.

Everyone who played early got banned.

Shit man. I'll have to check it out then, last I checked gbatemp you basically had to system transfer to another 3DS.

If anyone could do something ass backwards of an approach to online networking, it'd be Nintendo. Even post overhaul, they're still way behind.

no, you just lose your NNID

And I'm sure the banned systems got traded in to GameStop. That's what I did. Thankfully like Nintendo gamestop is oblivious to anything happening on the hacking scene.

see

I can't find the sentence where it says Nintendo DOESN'T ALLOW their employees to use Live and PSN. It only reads that it WASN'T WORTH to mention theses same network system from others companies because nobody in the Nintendo's development team used or know them.

Didn't Iwata said he had a PS3? What about Sakurai, who tweeted that he brought a PS3 game? With theses two people, Nintendo could had a chance to know how PSN work.

I´m surprised they are not giving Nintendo merchs as rewards instead, nindrones will do this for free.

>Up tp
Min is 100 bucks.

could be, when this thing came out there was stuff all over twitter from devs saying things like the core Wii U devs weren't even allowed to know how that shit worked.

However I can't find those tweets

Nintendo did reach out to EA at one point to manage their online presence, which angered a lot of consumers.

Smea is a great guy.

>However I can't find those tweets
IIRC, there was a guy from EA who tweeted he was angry over the way e-Shop worked, for whatever reason he had to be mad, which I can't remember.

probably cuz it stores keys locally and he could see all the potential problems with that.

Nintendo hasn't fixed their shit since the Wii, it's the same security holes.

EA knew that shit like that has to be unique and per account not per console

but remember when the 3DS came out it didn't have Nintendo accounts, so course they're storing everything locally.

Even now everything is locked to the console, you lose it, tough shit.

they don't know how, probably cuz no one in Japan uses a PC for recreational purposes so they have no culture to cultivate early PC learning.

switch is different than 3DS, this is likely testing the water how "willingly" are hacker to hand over exploit for $$$$$ rather than e-fame and all of your e-cocksucking.

so what better than 3DS than everyone on their mother is crazy about how to keep it wide open.

If the program works, they can easily expand it to Switch.

>not letting people steal you is anti consumer
cuck

I remember this, they had to retract, is not that Nintendo FORBID, is that they never asked their teams to look at PSN or XBL to copy/ look for ideas, etc.

>someone calls a shill by their alias
>gets triggered
works every time

how does it feel to be super-pathetic than a loner fuck in Sup Forums slaving yourself to a corporation over the stupidest shit they do?

cause it feels good to be a wise idort.

My thoughts exactly. The hacking scene already responded to them removing exploitable DSiWare games by revealing a new DSiWare exploit that could theoretically affect a large portion of their software library.
They won't be swayed by bounties like this and are more interested in opening up the 3DS to homebrew and making it an unsecured environment.
What possible reason could they have to entertain Nintendo's bounty when for the past decade it's been a continuous arms race to run stuff on their systems?

>Still being so asshurt over homebrew and piracy which they realistically have no control over
>"OUR CONSUMERS CAN ONLY USE OUR PRODUCTS EXACTLY HOW WE TELL THEM TO"
>Being so incompetent to not only put out a vulnerable system in the first place but also be unable to later find said vulnerabilities ON YOUR OWN SYSTEM
>Hypocritcally being so asshurt about potential sales losses yet also willing to pay up to $20,000 for a bounty
>Bounties are at their discretion so in reality nobody is going to get more than $100
>All of this asshurt and wasted time + money over a handheld console that will be dead within a year
>Resorting to all of this unnecessary bullshit instead of making higher quality games and consoles that would convince "pirates" to give you their money for a product they like

I didn't think it was possible but Nintendo has breached a new tier of braindead retarded. Silly rabbit: people don't buy video games anymore.

Everyone knows they've been stuck in the past for a very long time now. They still think it's 1990 or whatever and what their customers are dying for is another remake of Super Mario Bros.