Frutre3 Interview

sks316 Sep-01-19 03:30 PM

Hi

I take it you're Frutre3?

Frutre3 Sep-02-19 12:13 AM

Ah yes, I'm the world famous Frutre3! What can I do for you?

sks316 Sep-02-19 12:13 AM

"world famous" seems a bit cocky, but okay I wanted to interview you about recent events

So, why did you start making Wii malware? What was your motivation?

Frutre3 Sep-02-19 03:04 AM

Attention, mostly. I got the idea of making a Wii bricker from when Trash_Bandatcoot was talking about his CrashMe article on RGDWiki, and realizing that creating a Wii equivalent would be rather easy and a great way of causing the most amount of chaos and getting as much attention as possible relative to the effort required.

sks316 Sep-02-19 03:11 AM

I see. Well, this plea for attention seems to have worked, because I hear you have RiiConnect24 scared shitless. Are you satisfied with the amount of attention you've gotten?

Frutre3 Sep-02-19 03:58 AM

I'm never satisfied. The more the better!

sks316 Sep-02-19 12:18 PM

Would you say that it's possible for one person to have too much attention?

sks316 Sep-02-19 05:37 PM

Hello? It's been a while since you responded...

Frutre3 Sep-03-19 02:03 PM

Ah, sorry about that! Yes, that's certainly possible, but I don't think I have too much attention at the moment.

sks316 Sep-03-19 02:06 PM

Well, it's at least good to know that you know your limits. So, I noticed on your website that you have something called "Wii Bricker 9000 - dhtdht020 Edition". What's the story behind that? Why did you feel the need to associate someone else with a Wii bricker, and why dht?

Frutre3 Sep-03-19 02:17 PM

Ah, that one! dhtdht020 basically wanted me to prove my hacker skills by putting an image into a Wii app with GRRLIB. Instead I threw together a tounge-in-cheek ASCII art version of the image along with some improvised chat logs from dht, and with the bonus that it wipes your NAND!

sks316 Sep-03-19 02:26 PM

Interesting. I also noticed on your website that you mentioned the "Wii Virus Team". Is this team a one-man operation or are there several people working in it?

Frutre3 Sep-06-19 02:52 PM

It originally started as a two-person team with me and Rede. Rede left for personal reasons shortly after the first bricker got released, and some time later Krutre3 joined. So currently we're a 2 person team doing this, although I am and have always been the one who does most of the work.

sks316 Sep-06-19 04:32 PM

I see. Speaking of your website, are you aware that said website and your GitHub account as a whole were deleted?

Frutre3 Sep-07-19 03:32 PM

Yeah. I'm now Frutre4 on GitHub, and the website's now on https://frutre4.github.io/ .

sks316 Sep-07-19 03:35 PM

Do you mind explaining why the dates were pushed forward?

Frutre3 Sep-07-19 03:45 PM

Combination of needing more time, getting banned from GitHub and getting all this attention!

sks316 Sep-07-19 04:33 PM

On your website, you mention that "Dolphinophile" will "totally nuke your Dolphin installation". I'm kinda curious as to how it works...

Frutre3 Sep-08-19 02:22 PM

It's the product of the Dolphin exploit we've found that can execute a program that is inside the Wii folder in Dolphin's data files. Basically, what the app does is it writes a batch file containing some code in the Wii folder that it then runs using the exploit. Then the app crashes Dolphin and the launched batch file is disguised as some fake crash dump for Dolphin. During this time the batch script tries to delete everything inside the folder Dolphin is contained in including the data folder, and even if some files are used by Dolphin and can't be deleted, the script constantly checks whether it can delete them (e.g. from the user closing the crashed Dolphin program). So what the user sees is that their app they downloaded that's gonna have tons of amazing ASCII dolphin whatevers has crashed and gives a crash dump in a command prompt window. At least, before they go to open Dolphin again, and realize it's all gone.

sks316 Sep-08-19 02:25 PM

Quite interesting. Well, I only have a few more things to ask ya. Some people have speculated that the name "Frutre3" is merely a throwaway, so I wanted to know: Have you ever gone by any other alias? (edited)

Frutre3 Sep-08-19 02:37 PM

Yes, this is simply a throwaway name for this stuff, and yes, I go by another alias. Same with Rede and Krutre3.

sks316 Sep-08-19 02:40 PM

Would you mind revealing any other alias you've gone by, or do you want to keep that confidential?

Frutre3 Sep-08-19 02:40 PM

We keep our actual identities secret.

sks316 Sep-08-19 02:41 PM

Understandable

One more thing: Do you consent to this interview being published on sks316.github.io? Is there anything you want omitted? (edited)

Frutre3 Sep-08-19 02:41 PM

Yes. Please do that. Don't omit anything. Put it all online.

sks316 Sep-08-19 02:42 PM

Alright. Thank you for your time.