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Some hackers start putting porn on their Switch profile pictures
- Thread starter Atheerios
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Not to that point yet, and Nintendo actually developed the security a bit better this time, so I don't expect it to get to the level the 3DS was, but it's been blown open.
Question: While I know it's probably not ethical because it will make the company look back socially, but is it possible for Nintendo to do some kind of "mass recall"? Sending your system in to Nintendo for a lightly updated version with a different Nvidia chip so that this doesn't happen again?
It honestly wouldn't be worth Nintendo's time or money.
The people who are doing this won't send their systems in and people who aren't hacking the consoles won't really care and them getting an updated console wouldn't really solve the problem in the first place.
It's better for Nintendo to work on fixing the back end and ban anyone who pulls crap like this.
Don't be surprised to see them start to crack down on people running CFW.
Is that legal?
I hope that dev gets banned from working on any consoles again
I can't tell if this is a joke or not. I hope it is for your sake
There's a better chance of Sony allowing cross network support with a multi-player Switch port of The Last of US then that happening.
You can think something is bad without flying into a blind outrage about it. Of course little kids seeing this kind of stuff is bad, but that doesn't mean someone is a monster if they let out an exasperated laugh at the whole thing.
I'm surprised game backups were available so soon when just a couple of months ago people here were insisting it would be a while. They even found a way to let games on banned consoles receive game patches.
Nintendo steps toward cleaning things up haven't been as effective as the narrative implied.
People like that harm the hacking scene. The Wii online was a mess - It was filled with cheaters.
You can't really plan against your own hardware partner being incompetent.
Splatoon 2 is heavily moderated, and even then you'll see stuff slip through. Nothing like this, but hateful messages and such.
they can do nothing about hte SoC problem and about the bans is cause Nintendo have been rather soft about em, they been simple limiting access to certain parts, like only limited to a game for example, im sure if nintendo cared enough to completely shut em off they could just wipe out the offender UID from their servers and he will be do. out of everything.
It is definitely inappropriate, and it is far from a good thing, but it isn't the end of the world if a kid sees a pornographic picture. It will happen at some point.
What I think is funny is that these hackers are going to end up with some very, very expensive plastic bricks.
I'm trying to figure out how Nintendo isn't making the profile pictures read-only, server-side, so that you wouldn't have been able to do this to begin with. Why the hell are they doing a two-way sync and accepting files to it.
Very high I got an uncle that works at Sony and they say Phil Spencer has been sweating bullets at night because of how well the Switch is doing compared to his Samsung division.
While true, I doubt Nvidia not having this exploit would have prevented hacking anyway. Maybe it wouldn't have happened this quickly but it's inevitable.
Yep, and you can report them and I assume they go into moderation at that point (I had to do it the other day and the guy's speech bubble just vanished so I couldn't see the content anymore. Out of interest, do people get anything from me telling them that their drawing/message is fresh? I love to tell people they're fresh.
well, Nvidia fuck up aside, 5.0.0 removed 99% of all the whole hackers had found so at this point they would still be on Square zero. hell if anything it will hurt em most when the new SoC goes out and all the time they spent on teh current hacks become useless for future iterations.
They're probably hired by Microsoft to make it look like it was Sony to drive the wedge between them and the rest of the industry even deeper.
Or maybe that's what they want us to think.
Yeah hacking scene at this very early of the console's life is not good at all. The positive for the extremely small minority who want to play their legally owned retro games far too small compared to the negatives that affected many. Now not only multiplayer games that will posed to such risk, but also singleplayer games with asynchronus online feature. Good job Nvidia and whoever scum who sold their devkit on ebay.
Disappointing, to say the least.
I want MAME on my Switch but not if it comes with these shenanigans.
I want MAME on my Switch but not if it comes with these shenanigans.
There needs to be zero tolerance for this entire situation. If he can change his avatar to an unapproved one he can do any other number of things he shouldn't be able to do.
For those that don't know, UNO on the 360 allowed people to use the 360 cam to replace their gamerpic under the name while the game was being played and was shown to everyone.
It was notorious for creepers showing their dicks on cam, and they eventually patched UNO (after a long time) to where you can only see 360 camera users if you have your camera enabled and plugged in as well
I never understood people obsession with putting porn as a profile picture its like some middle schoolwe is acting mature.