arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to hack the Wii that makes running homebrew cipher much easier. “The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew cipher with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run

from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No such games are available as yet and Nintendo may reply by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove futile.”

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Orginal post by ScuttleMonkey