She was way more in touch with what the general populace voted on than I was and frequently picked the option that turned out to be popular in our region.
Such a unique game console.
Then I saw something about signing with RSA - btw OP, the link doesn't work in your blog - there's some markup issues. But there's no discussion of where the RSA key comes from (just that you create one with OpenSSL). Does the Wii just accept any "signed" content? If so, wow, 2007 was a crazy time...
Whoops, thanks for catching that! Just fixed it, here is the link just in case: https://github.com/rnegron/WiiNewsPR/blob/11df0e242bb1f4134e...
"Does the Wii just accept any "signed" content? If so, wow, 2007 was a crazy time..."
Yup! I suppose they assumed that hard-coding the URL was enough of a safeguard!
> Interestingly, the code continues to check the entire hash after a mismatch.
This is a standard practice in cryptography, but maybe not at the time.
EDIT: I just looked it up and apparently the wii netflix channel was supported until 2019, so my memory of using it until it went bust were incorrect. We prob used it until around 2012 or so
Are you sure about that? The Wii sensor bar is not a sensor at all; it's just a pair of small lights that the camera on top of the Wii Remote monitors in order to determine movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_no_Tomo_Channel#TV_remote_c...
I'm thinking something like Bnetd, but, say NinteNetd.