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Xbox One Security Backdoor Exposed (And You Won't Believe How!)

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Now, I've heard of some pretty bad things about the Xbox One, but this takes the cake.

Apparently, a five-year-old was able to break into his father's Xbox Live account by filling the password section with spaces.

Let me repeat that. This kid spammed the spacebar to play his dad's games.

So, this kid discovered the trick, and got away with it until shortly after Christmas (no idea on why it took so long for the news to pick it up). His parents (finally) realized their son was playing games he wasn't supposed to, and the father (who works in computer security) asked him how he did it.

Basically, after the console is given a bad password, there's a password verification screen. Spam a bunch of spaces and you're in.

Microsoft discovered this backdoor and promptly fixed it, and bestowing on the young lad four new games, $50 (likely in Xbox Live), and a year's Gold membership on Live. The boy is also mentioned on a list of security researchers in March this year.

Moral of the story? "Newer" does not always mean "more secure".

Sources: http://www.10news.com/news/5-year-old-ocean-beach-exposes-microsoft-xbox-vulnerability
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McJobless

I think the moral of the story is if you find a backdoor, you should exploit it to the point companies are buying you free games.

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le717

What gets me is that they rewarded the boy (though what he did was "good" in the sense the issue is now fixed), but he was doing things he was not supposed to be doing. I wonder what the dad had to say about that. :P

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jedi299

What gets me is that they rewarded the boy (though what he did was "good" in the sense the issue is now fixed), but he was doing things he was not supposed to be doing. I wonder what the dad had to say about that. :P

His dad was actually proud of him despite him playing mature games such as Call of Duty and Dead Rising 3. I would be too, likely.

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Cyrem

What gets me is that they rewarded the boy (though what he did was "good" in the sense the issue is now fixed), but he was doing things he was not supposed to be doing. I wonder what the dad had to say about that. :P

A number of companies reward people for finding problems with their software, it's a good incentive for people to look for problems.

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