A five-year-old boy has found and exploited a password flaw in his Xbox to hack into his father's Xbox Live account. Still of Kristoffer playing on the Xbox Look out, Mitnick ... Kristoffer Von Hassel on his Xbox (Credit: ABC 10 / KGTV) The parents of Kristoffer Von Hassel, from Ocean Beach in San Diego, California, …

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1. Tuesday 8th April 2014 18:52 GMT Michael Dunn
  
  Re: INFANT? @ heidilee2
  
  I'm glad you raised this point - as a confirmed pedant of 80 years, I can really go to town on it.
  
  The word 'infant' is strictly a legal term from the Latin 'infans' = 'not speaking', meaning one who was unable to 'speak' in a court, or unable to make a contract. Until fairly recently, the term 'infant' applied up to the age of 21, later reduced to 18 - when I was a National Serviceman, liable to be sent to fight in the Korean War, I was unable to vote.
  
  Kindergarten, primary, secondary and in some cases even in university (I had uni entrance at 16) we were all infants.
  
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Saturday 5th April 2014 09:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

Microsoft security

So bad even 5 year old car hack it..

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 15:32 GMT J 3
  
  Re: Microsoft security
  
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Saturday 5th April 2014 10:45 GMT Zot

A bug?

Or just a tester shortcut, inserted deliberately. Someone forgot to remove the code upon release. MS are taking it lightly, but it reflects really badly on their software and security.

Does it have to be a row of spaces, can you use any character?

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 13:31 GMT Loyal Commenter
  
  Re: A bug?
  
  Reminds me of the early version of MS Office, where you could use the 'developer' software key of 1111-1111-1111-1111-1110 (or similar)
  
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Saturday 5th April 2014 20:43 GMT Anonymous Coward

Of course

If it was open source he could have uploaded a patch

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Sunday 6th April 2014 14:34 GMT Proffesor Madhead

Oh crap!! imagine the farmville bill when hes 6!

the world is really different when you get to that layer.. humanity is going to evolve a neural interface to its tech.

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Sunday 6th April 2014 19:55 GMT Anonymous Coward

I long for the days of playing console games offline

No Internet connection, no ping, no account logins, no DLCs, no chatting with someone whom you've never met when playing the game.

Those were the days and we still had plenty of fun, and the graphics might not have been the best, but we still had lots of fun, hadn't we? Sega 16-bit, NES, SNES, PC Engine etc.

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Monday 7th April 2014 07:04 GMT David Gale

Hack Attack!

Why the cynicism? At a time when I was working with local authorities, including education, my kid decided that hacking his school's admin network was more entertaining than his school's IT curriculum. Granted he was 11 yrs old at the time but, within a few weeks, he'd graduated to hacking a national curriculum online student testing facility. I had anticipated using his 'work' to provide me with some traction in discussing security infrastructure but the reaction (without blobbing him in) was indifference. Too much potential for embarrassment?

David Gale

SITFO.org

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Monday 7th April 2014 08:09 GMT Gordon Pryra

WTF!!

Why is a five you old playing on any system unsupervised?

Shit parents tbh

If you cant give up the time needed to look after them then keep your pants on

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 09:02 GMT h4rm0ny
  
  Re: WTF!!
  
  Well I was frequently allowed to read books unattended for hours at a time as a child. In fact, I would cheerfully do so. I don't think that was an example of parental neglect, but it's just as much a case of doing something unsupervised as playing an offline game, is it not?
  
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2. Monday 7th April 2014 14:28 GMT Tom 13
  
  Re: WTF!!
  
  I wouldn't call it unsupervised, more like lightly supervised. It's not like he realized it because he got a credit card bill for stuff he didn't buy. He saw what the kid was doing one of the times he was using it. So maybe it will call for a bit more supervision in the future, but he wasn't completely AWOL.
  
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Monday 7th April 2014 08:25 GMT Anonymous Coward

The Worlds most secure OS

> Disclaimer:

> As long as you are older than 5

Shouldn't that be "Younger" than 5?

It's called juxtaposition.

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 09:45 GMT Sir Runcible Spoon
  
  "It's called juxtaposition."
  
  Well it certainly would be had you replied in-line.
  
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Monday 7th April 2014 10:14 GMT Nameless Faceless Computer User

close call

Thankfully, no music was downloaded.

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Monday 7th April 2014 12:12 GMT DerekCurrie

... Returning us to that age old question: You use Microsoft because WHY?!

Thankfully, Google's Android has offered Microsoft a run for it's, um, money regarding insecurity. But still that nagging question: Why use Microsoft when you know its poor security is gonna bite you?

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Monday 7th April 2014 13:12 GMT plrndl

Hey Microsoft

While you're listening to customers, how about fixing the user interface in W8?

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1. Monday 7th April 2014 13:38 GMT Anonymous Bullard
  
  Re: Hey Microsoft
  
  They have been: the 5 year old customers
  
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2. Wednesday 9th April 2014 18:34 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Re: Hey Microsoft
  
  You don't understand: Microsoft doesn't fix the user interface. Microsoft fixes users.
  
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Monday 7th April 2014 16:49 GMT Surreal

Shades of Win95 registration key

I'd thought MS got this bug sorted after it became widely known that one could simply enter spaces as the registration key during a Windows 95 install. That must have been the previous generation of MS engineers, I s'pose?

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