5 Year Old Exposes Microsoft Xbox Vulnerability

[ArnoldRimmer]

KylieDog said:

ArnoldRimmer said:
I think the thread title is still misleading.

Most news media have headlines like this:
"Five-year-old boy discovers serious Xbox security flaw and hacks into dad's account"
"Five-year-old hacks Xbox, discovers security flaw"
"5-year-old cracks Xbox One security by discovering simple flaw"

They don't mention Xbox >LIVE<, and I believe that this is correct, because the security flaw was probably not related to XBL, the online service.

System accounts don't have passwords.

As I get it, the security flaw allows bypassing the account authorization process on the local system. That doesn't appear to be directly related with XBL, even if this only applies to XBL accounts because other accounts don't have a password anyway.