"Everybody Votes" channel hacked

[Joshieca]

Not sure if we are allow to post this sorta thing, so don't shoot me, I am just the messenger.

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/24/wiis-everybody-votes-channel-hacked-to-allow-unlimited-sugges/

 

[paintba||er]

Ooo goody I can send Nintendo a bunch of suggestions! I'm sure Nintendo would figure it out too when they are getting a shitload of suggestions from the same person each day. Nice find but it seems kind of useless.

 

[Flagel]

In a similar way, has anyone ever heard of the sasser worm? not a wii issue, but a pc one. years ago it infected alot of places (including my pc) and about 5 minutes into using the pc, up would come a little message saying some crap, and that the pc would shut down in 30 seconds, now if you stayed calm, you would just set the windows clock back, and then the time would change, (pc will now shut down in 700 days 23 hours and 11 minutes style) Just looked funny how something that annoying could be countered so easy