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Maybe I'm just cynical, but given that the father is a security researcher, does anyone else think that he himself found the vulnerability but concocted the sto
by 67726e 13y ago
Maybe I'm just cynical, but given that the father is a security researcher, does anyone else think that he himself found the vulnerability but concocted the story to get some free press?
- FLUX-YOU 13y agoWouldn't be the first time parents did the work for their kids to give them a line item on their 'resume'. As an aside, this gave me an idea: Grey hat SEO/reputation consulting for your kids' reputations.
- Gracana 13y agoYou don't have to be a security researcher to type stuff into a password box and try it out. It doesn't seem so far-fetched to me.
- stephengillie 13y agoSo this is like junior astronomers getting credit for finding planets with telescopes designed and funded by senior astronomers?
- scott_karana 13y agoExcept that it's an off-the-shelf Xbox One. Any of his friends could have hypothetically found the vulnerability.
- astrodust 13y agoI don't think a security researcher would waste his time hitting the space bar to try and crack in. They'd probably look for other, more sophisticated vectors, simply because the probability of such a crude attack working is very low. In this case, inexplicably, it worked. Given the kid's history of interesting discoveries, I'd say this is legit. It's not very sophisticated, but it sure is effective. If your father was someone trained to probe for problems, if you'd grown up with that sort of encouragement, you'd probably try the same thing at your own level of ability. Props to the kid!
- pervycreeper 13y agoNo, but surely it had something to do with the way the vulnerability was reported rather than merely shrugged off.
- wzy 13y agoAnd after all that plotting he accepted $50, 4 game a year free Xbox Live? That seems very 'un-ambitious'
- 67726e 13y agoThe goal being the free press, not a few bucks worth of recognition from Microsoft.