Author Topic: Xbox security breached by DUN DUN DUUUUN....a five year old.... (Read 2623 times)

T-Man · **on:** April 04, 2014, 10:19:12 am

http://kotaku.com/five-year-old-boy-exposes-xbox-security-flaw-1558183736

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26879185

A delightful blend of Epic win by child, and epic fail by Microsoft. Somewhere, right now, Microsoft security coders are being slapped silly.

Nah, I say hats off to all Micro's rewards for the kid.

Bet that's his career prospects sorted!

Luis Dias · **Reply #1 on:** April 04, 2014, 10:25:10 am

traitor.

BloodEagle · **Reply #2 on:** April 04, 2014, 11:42:42 am

Wait. What?

He got by the password screen by hitting the ****ing spacebar!?

That sounds like an intentional security hole, not a flaw.

Nuke · **Reply #3 on:** April 04, 2014, 11:56:10 am

its a back door that was somehow left in by developers.

Rodo · **Reply #4 on:** April 04, 2014, 12:00:27 pm

Lucky kid, getting free stufss and all.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #5 on:** April 04, 2014, 01:31:13 pm

And a belt off screen for disobedience.

Mito [PL] · **Reply #6 on:** April 04, 2014, 03:14:52 pm

FUS RO DAH!!! And that's the whole story...

Trolltutta, that your DNA?

S-99 · **Reply #7 on:** April 05, 2014, 04:48:59 pm

UUUUUuuugghh

I wonder how sloppy their other back doors are.

Mongoose · **Reply #8 on:** April 05, 2014, 06:38:01 pm

...ewww.

Colonol Dekker · **Reply #9 on:** April 06, 2014, 06:54:40 am

Quote from: S-99 on April 05, 2014, 04:48:59 pm

UUUUUuuugghh I wonder how sloppy their other back doors are.

Quote from: Mongoose on April 05, 2014, 06:38:01 pm

...ewww.

Read my mind.

InsaneBaron · **Reply #10 on:** April 06, 2014, 07:17:51 am

Hilarious.

I'll hire the kid.

S-99 · **Reply #11 on:** April 06, 2014, 07:27:35 pm

This seems no different back in the day with the win98 password protected network shares. Where the programming only paid attention to how long your password was, and not what composed it. A bunch of spaces for the password length and you were in.

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