Hiya, my name is Michael.
I'm 22 years old, currently living in Munich, Germany.
Back in 2010, my parents got me a Wii for Christmas after months of begging. Little did they (or I) know that that console would (kind of) pave my way into my job.
I got into console hacking after hearing something on the school bus about downloading Wii games and playing them from a USB drive. I couldn't wait to get home and give this whole thing a try.
I quickly found good tutorials on a German Wii homebrew forum and successfully modded my Wii. What started as a way of getting free games developed into something more. I started getting into making cheats for games, fiddling around with the system etc etc. However, after a little too much fiddling around, I got myself a low-level brick after downgrading to 3.2 for the lulz. That was about three months after I got the console. Nintendo kindly replaced it for free, but I swore to myself that I'd never touch homebrew again.
Well, that lasted about a week and then I had a fully functional and hacked Wii again.
Then the 3DS came out and the German scene kinda sucked for that so I ended up (re) discovering GBATemp. As I witnessed the birth of the 3DS CFW scene I ended up reading more and more about the actual technical details and concepts of exploitation.
Now, I'm working as a penetration tester in a huge German company. So yeah, thanks GBATemp, it's been tight.
I'm 22 years old, currently living in Munich, Germany.
Back in 2010, my parents got me a Wii for Christmas after months of begging. Little did they (or I) know that that console would (kind of) pave my way into my job.
I got into console hacking after hearing something on the school bus about downloading Wii games and playing them from a USB drive. I couldn't wait to get home and give this whole thing a try.
I quickly found good tutorials on a German Wii homebrew forum and successfully modded my Wii. What started as a way of getting free games developed into something more. I started getting into making cheats for games, fiddling around with the system etc etc. However, after a little too much fiddling around, I got myself a low-level brick after downgrading to 3.2 for the lulz. That was about three months after I got the console. Nintendo kindly replaced it for free, but I swore to myself that I'd never touch homebrew again.
Well, that lasted about a week and then I had a fully functional and hacked Wii again.
Then the 3DS came out and the German scene kinda sucked for that so I ended up (re) discovering GBATemp. As I witnessed the birth of the 3DS CFW scene I ended up reading more and more about the actual technical details and concepts of exploitation.
Now, I'm working as a penetration tester in a huge German company. So yeah, thanks GBATemp, it's been tight.