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Hosted by San Francisco-based HackerOne—a bug bounty platform created by security staff from Facebook, Microsoft, and Google—the programme invites researchers to find and address security vulnerabilities in the 3DS. These include “dissemination of inappropriate content to children,” cheating methods like “save data modification,” and of course piracy via “game application dumping” and “copied game application execution.”

Nintendo also lists potential areas of investigation, including system vulnerabilities via “ARM11 kernel takeovers,” and hardware vulnerabilities via “security key detection.”