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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by jsheard on Sunday March 12, 2017 @09:56PM (#13854645)
The 3DS was hacked multiple times via pre-existing WebKit exploits, you'd think Nintendo would have learned to keep it up to date by now. Apparently not...
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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by IntelMiner on Monday March 13, 2017 @02:16AM (#13855614)
Nintendo doesn't directly control the browser. The browser is based on "NetFront" from Japanese company "Access Co. Ltd"

According to Wikipedia, the last "stable release" was in 2012. Which may also contribute to things

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFront

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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by mathw on Monday March 13, 2017 @06:06AM (#13856504)
Well, you can blame them, because they could have picked a browser that's rather more up to date.
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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by fredoralive on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:57AM (#13856470)
The browser last updated in 2012 seems to be the older Netfront that uses a custom engine, not the Webkit one (Netfront NX).

The older Netfront predates Webkit, it was available for the Dreamcast.

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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by creshal on Monday March 13, 2017 @05:25AM (#13856349)
And before that they used pre-Blink Opera.

Nintendo really has bad luck with picking their browser vendors…

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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by ralfn on Monday March 13, 2017 @09:12AM (#13857470)
Why are they even using a vendor? The work is just integrating webkit in their build pipeline! How can using a vendor not be more hassle, money, time and troubles?
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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by creshal on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @04:50AM (#13865997)
I assume they're asking themselves that question now. Probably it seemed cheaper up front.
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Re:What does Nintendo Switch and iOS 9.3 have in common? CVE... by grawlinson on Monday March 13, 2017 @01:46AM (#13855511)
Nintendo isn't the only one.

The PS Vita (and PS4, but I may be wrong) were also hacked by a chain of exploits that started with, you guessed it, simple WebKit exploits.

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