Topic: Security so good it takes a 5 year old to break it.

[Nemesis]

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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.

[Javora]

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.

[Nemesis]

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.

[Brush Wolf]

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.

[Javora]

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?

[Nemesis]

Copyright law.  Fair use allows segments to be copied not the whole article.  I did provide a link to the actual source.