Let me start by saying that I am not a hacker, nor a rocket scientist, but this is something I would like to see discussed.
When our country introduced chipcards (NFC) for public transport, they were hacked a few days/weeks after. Apparently the encryption is so poor it can be dumped within an hour. Even smartphones can read and rewrite them (granted they have NFC of course).
That's what got me thinking about the Wii U's NFC chip. Again, I am no hacker nor a cum-biologist, but how about we abuse that chip? Can we even abuse it? My take on this was to use a game which supports NFC (aka spyro), copy and alter the spyro chip (which you can send then out through your phone or any other NFC medium) to let it run unsigned code or let-it-do-what-U-want-thingy on the Wii U. Maybe a reference to the SD-card or HDD to a program which it can execute?
Again, I am not a hacker nor a shoe-salesman, and I am not even sure if you can even send that kind of data over NFC, but would it be worth something?
When our country introduced chipcards (NFC) for public transport, they were hacked a few days/weeks after. Apparently the encryption is so poor it can be dumped within an hour. Even smartphones can read and rewrite them (granted they have NFC of course).
That's what got me thinking about the Wii U's NFC chip. Again, I am no hacker nor a cum-biologist, but how about we abuse that chip? Can we even abuse it? My take on this was to use a game which supports NFC (aka spyro), copy and alter the spyro chip (which you can send then out through your phone or any other NFC medium) to let it run unsigned code or let-it-do-what-U-want-thingy on the Wii U. Maybe a reference to the SD-card or HDD to a program which it can execute?
Again, I am not a hacker nor a shoe-salesman, and I am not even sure if you can even send that kind of data over NFC, but would it be worth something?