Microsoft dumber than a 5-years old

[magus]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-26879185

[Positive Touch]

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

[demi]

Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers

Twice

[Rufus]

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?

[a slime appears]

Remember, he's a security researcher according to Microsoft.

[Tasty]

Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers

Twice

what is this in reference to

[Pringo]

Nintendo was defeated by a pair of Tweezers

Twice

what is this in reference to

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Tweezer_Attack

[radioheadrule83]

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

[Takao]

Microsoft might be dumber than a five-year-old, but is Magus smarter than the average bear???