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Inside the Messy World of Nintendo Switch Hacking
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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Dec 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Pirates recently dumped Super Smash Bros. Ultimate around two weeks before it was scheduled to hit stores. Motherboard senior staff writer Joseph Cox takes us inside the messy world of Nintendo Switch hacking and piracy. The Switch piracy community—much of which operates on the gamer-focused chat app Discord—is full of ingenuity, technical breakthroughs, and evolving cat-and-mouse games between the multi-billion dollar Nintendo and the passionate hackers who love the company but nonetheless illegally steal its games. Pirates deploy malware to steal each other’s files so they can download more games themselves. Groups deliberately plant code into others' Switches so they no longer work. And some people in the scene have been doxed. For information regarding your data privacy, visit acast.com/privacy
Released:
Dec 3, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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