5 year old hacks Xbox Live

[porridge]

Microsoft are f'ing useless



"A five-year-old boy who worked out a security vulnerability on Microsoft's Xbox Live service has been officially thanked by the company.

The boy worked out that entering the wrong password into the log-in screen would bring up a second password verification screen.

Kristoffer discovered that if he simply pressed the space bar to fill up the password field, the system would let him in to his dad's account."


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

[Mastodon2]

Except did he really "work it out" or did he stumble across it by accident?

[TonyTony]

I wouldn't call it hacking!!

[y2blade]

Mastodon2 said:

Except did he really "work it out" or did he stumble across it by accident?

Yes