Nintendo warns Switch 2 GameChat users: “Your chat is recorded”

Temporary local copies can be shared with Nintendo through manual user reporting.

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should we make a betting pool as to when this will be hacked and exposed? bonus if it was stored in a insecure method?

It's explicitly not billed as a private communication system. It's for public interaction. It probably explicitly won't be secured in a private way. Because it's not supposed to.

And it probably should be that way; if gamechat was end to end encrypted and nintendo had no access to the files, how would reporting work? Sure, a user could report on a chat they're in, but then it's not really end to end anyways, right? Moderation seems more useful for a public chatting system than not.

 

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I'm not waiting in line for some barbaric Switch 2 and its Tariff offset price, what are you, some kind of can of salted peanuts?

Honestly getting a switch 2 was pretty easy this time around, in the grand scheme of "getting electronics of the last 5 years". I was able to get one with about half an hour? an hour? of work on preorder day, and I woke up this morning and pointed out the switch 2 bundles to my sister on Costco, and she was able to get one without being rushed or dealing with online queues. It's sold out now but was available for a decent while.