from Nintendo-Scene

Ski Freak wrote in to tell us of an interesting presentation that took place at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress (24C3) right now; it would appear that a fully hacked Wii capable of running native homebrew with full hardware access has been presented.

From the report:

The guys over at 24C3 just demoed a Wii hack that is set to provide native wii
homebrew in the near future (not running in GC mode, and with full access to all the Wii hardware!)

They were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory
dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. Using these keys, they were
able to create a Wii ‘game’ that ran their own code (their demo happened to show live sensor/Wiimote information, amongst a few other things).

Details are minimal and we’re waiting for additional conformation from additional sources. If you’re in attendance at the event and can provide us with additional information please let us know.

UPDATE: Thanks for the conformation we received from those in attendance at the confrence.  A youtube video has been posted with the Wii segment on “Why Silicon-Based Security is still that hard”. You can watch the complete inofficial recording if you wish, the Wii segments starts at 59 minutes. Thanks to atzplzw and xjw for the links.