THE BORE

General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: magus on April 06, 2014, 07:01:35 PM

Title: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: magus on April 06, 2014, 07:01:35 PM
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26879185

:neogaf
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: Positive Touch on April 06, 2014, 07:52:08 PM
do you guys think microsoft will be able to recover from this? i need to renew my gold subscription and dont want it to go to waste
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: demi on April 06, 2014, 07:56:44 PM
Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers :yeshrug

Twice :yeshrug
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: Rufus on April 06, 2014, 08:03:14 PM
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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.

Oh man. They were (re)working on this until the last second, huh?
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: a slime appears on April 06, 2014, 08:18:17 PM
Remember, he's a security researcher according to Microsoft.
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: Tasty on April 06, 2014, 08:41:30 PM
Quote from: demi on April 06, 2014, 07:56:44 PM
Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers :yeshrug

Twice :yeshrug

what is this in reference to
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: Pringo on April 06, 2014, 08:52:09 PM
Quote from: Tasty Meat on April 06, 2014, 08:41:30 PM
Quote from: demi on April 06, 2014, 07:56:44 PM
Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers :yeshrug

Twice :yeshrug

what is this in reference to

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Tweezer_Attack
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: radioheadrule83 on April 07, 2014, 08:04:06 AM
Pressing spacebar a bunch of times... that is an *amazing* flaw. I really like that they gave the kid games, money and a subscription though. Even if the value of all that is miniscule compared to the cost and future embarrassment the flaw could have caused
Title: Re: Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old
Post by: Takao on April 07, 2014, 04:32:22 PM
Microsoft might be dumber than a five-year-old, but is Magus smarter than the average bear???