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5-year-old Ocean Beach boy exposes Microsoft Xbox vulnerability

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Dissent

Michael Chen reports:

A young Ocean Beach boy is in the spotlight after he discovered a back door in to one of the most popular gaming systems in the world.

When 5-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel is playing his Xbox, his feet don’t touch the ground. But something he did has made the smartest guys at Microsoft pay attention.

“I was like yea!” said Kristoffer.

Read more about this little future security researcher on ABC10 News. 🙂

Thanks to Justin Shafer for this link.

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