Topic: Is Nintendo at risk?

You can store your credit/debit card details on the eshop though unlike PSN and XBL you can actually choose whether you want to or not when eshop credit is bought.

That's funny, right after I left this thread the site crashed.

Perhaps WE'RE next!

GoP just seem to embarrass Sony generally. I don't think they would use personal details for anything.
What if these guys are just some basement kids? That'd be funny.

Any company or individual is at risk from hacking, although it's unlikely Nintendo will be targeted by North Korea unless they plan to add Kim Jong Un to the new Zelda game as a mid boss you have to poison with pastries.

Remember: This isn't just some random attack on Sony, they've financed and produced a film about the fictional assassination attempt on a real living person. No matter what you think of the way K.J.U runs his country, imagine what would happen if you made the same film about Obama, or Merkel, or a non political celebrity or just a real person on the street. It's not okay to treat a person in this way without there consent, freedom of speech or not. With all the troubles Sony has caused themselves, did they really need to bring this down on their heads?

But the number is on the system, not a server

You can't break through the Nintendium Firewall.

Don't worry guys, reggie's body will shield us all from the hax!

^This. I was just thinking about this this morning.

Often times nothing happens. Death of a president was made while Bush was in office. America didn't threaten anyone. I don't think there was a hacking attack either. I'm not saying I agree with the movie but I find it odd that other countries can maim, kill, make fun of and insult political leaders in America but If America does it..."grab the pitchforks!". I will say I went from not knowing anything about the movie to really wanting to see it. So...Mission Accomplished? I bought both of the tee fury shirts on the matter today as well.

Now as far as Nintendo being a target for hacking? Sure everyone is. That is why i just buy eshop cards. I'd rather somebody get my financials by hacking my bank...not the videogame company I like.

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I think you're missing the point there. Freedom of speech shouldn't be limited in any way. A lot of people don't understand how that works. Whether you're offended, or butthurt, or whatever that right is protected within the United States. My history teacher used to call it "the right to be offended". Could North Korea boycott Sony and US goods because of it? Sure. but limiting speech within our own country just because we disagree or are afraid of some manchild dictator? That's something we should never do.

Heck, the movie looks terrible to me, but I won't support suppressing speech because we're afraid of hurting their wittle feelings. If you want to talk about a real problem: the military industrial complex in the United States. People actually die because of that...a lot of people.

Indeed. Unfortunately free speech has been assaulted so many times in the last decade that so many opportunistic people have realised just how easily it is to shut people up if you don't like what they're saying. At the current rate, it probably won't exist at all in 50 years. There are just too many different view points out there and everyone's offended by something. Once you grant the right to censor to 1 group, it's impossible not to grant it to all the others too. Salman Rushdie has a big "I told you so" grin on his face.

In today's society, hacking is a means to ends for certain people, & (redundant: certain) groups of people. It's a shame that, for people who have an issue w/ any co., this is, in this generation (or today's society, like I said), the means to deal with them. I'm talking about simple things, such as a group doesn't like x developer's newest game, or such, & such film co.'s latest movie. Mostly it is real petty stuff. Ya wanna make a statement against a business? Fine. Make a verbal statement, refuse to go watch x movie, buy x product, or whatever. Those are perfectly within rights of a person here in the U.S.A. But it's playing dirty to hack a co. If ya wanna disrupt a business, do it the legal way, not the illegal way. Just boycott the product, or service. It's just a shame that the generation of today just outright prefers dirty tactics, to just saying, "Ok, I disagree", or "Ok, I'm not supporting you financially", or whatever.

As for Nintendo, they could only ever be threatened so much w/ their online. Directly, it's not a source of revenue for them. Oh yeah sure, indirectly, you could argue, it drives sales of games that have major online components, but Nintendo does not directly profit, in a manner of speaking, from their online. No, I think, if they were hacked, their point of feeling it(the impact of the hackers), would be mainly the e-Shop, since that is their direct revenue related to online. While on that note, this is another area of reason for physical games, as opposed to digital. Should a server go down, I have my game, & the system to play it on.

But, as others have said, no one is safe from hacking, especially co.s. I would imagine, not state as fact, that some co.s can, & do probably benefit from being hacked, as it can be a tax right off. Though, w/ that statement, I'm thinking more big banks, than game co.s

Also, to add 1 other thing - Nintendo is a co. w/ divisions in multiple areas of the world, so they are a much bigger target for potential hackers.

People in the UK managed to get away with making a parody documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in 2006, while he was still in office in the film, Death of a President.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_a_President_(2006_film)

And the U.S. didn't get all uptight about it to the point of threatening people's lives.

Yes, but most Western and developed countries are a lot more tolerant (I question if they should be with such vile films) . North Korea is a Dictatorship. It can't boycott the US because it doesn't do trade with the US or most of the World - it mainly trades with China. It's not right for them to hack Sony, but then they aren't a participant in the laws of the rest of the world. It's like picking on and mocking the kid who eats worms at the back of the class- he's not in the gang of friends who take jokes well so don't be surprised when he freaks out and throws a chair at you.

Lol, I actually witnessed that literally happen as a teenager. A slightly weird kid got fed up with someone taunting him so he threw his chair at them. Naturally, as teenage boys, we thought it was awesome.

I doubt it. Nintendo's not been very political recently, so there's less reason to target them.

Unless they decide to like that one Mario fan game where Mario shoos up a North Korean military base (Metal Gear style), there's no reason for anyone to go 'after' them.

And Nintendo... well, they might be better at security than Sony.

Keep in mind that "Free Speech" only applies protection from the government, and it will always be limited. People should NEVER have the right to do whatever they want for "free speech/expression". There are laws that limit what you can do for the protection of other people's rights. For instance, protests that block traffic infringe on others' rights to go to work and home on time. This is why there should be laws to prevent that. Lastly, people and privately (or even publicly) owned companies do not have to respect free speech. Saying otherwise is only a myth

Anywho, Nintendo hasn't really done much of anything controversial aside from lousy communication and supply of products lately

Sometimes, a person or group may be stripped of their rights if they do something wrong. Like Walzgi said, protesters infringe the rights of motorists if they block traffic. Some countries practise Environmental Sanitation on certain days - on those days, you can't move around as freely as usual. I really don't see how Sony could have gotten away with the movie without some sort of permission, to be honest.