*UPDATE* Xbox Linux team member claims Wii already hacked. Now with video!

Achtung! claims Michael Stiel of the Xbox Linux team, during the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, “the Wii is the perfect goal for hackers.” The gist of his speech is that the Wii is perfectly hackable because of its backwards-compatibility with the Gamecube. As such, the Wii has inherited a couple of hacks from its predecessor.

For example, a variant of the Action Replay hack works with the Wii. Hackers also found a back door in, well, as Google Translate goes, “With the interface, over which the DVD drive assembly with the core of the Gamecube communicates.” This probably refers to the interface between the DVD drive and the legacy Gamecube parts or code, or so says another participant in the Chaos Comm. Congress, Felix Domke. The most successful hack for the Wii, he says, is one similar to the DVD firmware hack on the Xbox 360.

Speaking of which: compared to the Wii, the 360 is in fact a harder nut to hack. And the PS3? That’s a different story, says Domke. His opinion is that Sony has provided a “compromise” to hackers by offering Linux capability in the box. On the other hand, it didn’t stop some people looking for exploits…

UPDATE: Guess what we found on the Tube of You (as Borat might put it)? It’s a video, it seems, of a presentation during the Chaos Communications Congress, explaining comparisons between GameCube and Wii, and theories on DVD security and hacking.

Achtung! claims Michael Stiel of the Xbox Linux team, during the Chaos Communications Congress in Berlin, “the Wii is the perfect goal for hackers.” The gist of his speech is that the Wii is perfectly hackable because of its backwards-compatibility with the Gamecube. As such, the Wii has inherited a couple of hacks from its predecessor.

For example, a variant of the Action Replay hack works with the Wii. Hackers also found a back door in, well, as Google Translate goes, “With the interface, over which the DVD drive assembly with the core of the Gamecube communicates.” This probably refers to the interface between the DVD drive and the legacy Gamecube parts or code, or so says another participant in the Chaos Comm. Congress, Felix Domke. The most successful hack for the Wii, he says, is one similar to the DVD firmware hack on the Xbox 360.

Speaking of which: compared to the Wii, the 360 is in fact a harder nut to hack. And the PS3? That’s a different story, says Domke. His opinion is that Sony has provided a “compromise” to hackers by offering Linux capability in the box. On the other hand, it didn’t stop some people looking for exploits…

UPDATE: Guess what we found on the Tube of You (as Borat might put it)? It’s a video, it seems, of a presentation during the Chaos Communications Congress, explaining comparisons between GameCube and Wii, and theories on DVD security and hacking.