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Off Topic => Engineering => Topic started by: Nemesis on April 05, 2014, 10:50:04 am
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Link (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/04/04/five_year_olds_xbox_live_password_hack/)
The parents of Kristoffer Von Hassel, from Ocean Beach in San Diego, California, noticed after Christmas that the talented tot had broken into the account without knowing the password – allowing him to cheekily play games for adults that he wasn't supposed to touch.
The kid managed it by tapping in a wrong password at the console's login prompt, navigating to a password verification screen, and filling the password box with space characters before hitting the submit button. After that, the door was open.
“I was like, 'yea!'” Kristoffer told ABC News.
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I've noticed that with my kids Linux/Android based tablet. Except when I called them about it that "we'll note the issue". Nothing was ever done to fix the problem and I certainly never received anything for bringing it to their attention like Microsoft did. Something I noticed was left out of the story.
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What was left out of the story? Not that the kid was rewarded certainly.
The article said:
Kristoffer received four games for free from Microsoft in recompense, along with a year's Xbox Live subscription and $50 (about 30 quid), as well as a mention on the company's vulnerabilities shoutout web page.
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It's like those so called child proof caps which a typical 5 year old can open in less than 30 seconds. Now they will slow down a 2 or 3 year old for awhile.
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What was left out of the story? Not that the kid was rewarded certainly.
The article said:
Kristoffer received four games for free from Microsoft in recompense, along with a year's Xbox Live subscription and $50 (about 30 quid), as well as a mention on the company's vulnerabilities shoutout web page.
Why didn't you put that second quote from the story in with your original post?
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Copyright law. Fair use allows segments to be copied not the whole article. I did provide a link to the actual source.