good on her for having the time and patience to work it all out. however i must say one thing... she needs a snappier title for her talk. i don't even know what that talks about from the title. thats all
Ten-Year-Old Hacker Reveals Mobile Gaming Exploit at Defcon
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Not really. When the headline claims "A ten-year-old hacker who discovered an exploit that allows easy cheating in iOS and Android games has presented her findings to this year's Defcon hacking conference." and you find out that the "hack" is just changing the system clock, something that has been possible in games for years before anyone even thought about smart phones and games on them, people are going to be unimpressed because it's not a hack at all. As for disconnecting the device from the internet, that's also something that's been done for a few years as well (Xbox 360 will try to auto-sync the date and time if you're connected to Xbox Live, so changing the system clock requires signing out of live and/or disconnecting your ethernet cable first), which is also not hacking.Fawxy said:
The age of the person in question has nothing to do with it. 10 years old or 30 years old, changing a system clock is not hacking. The reason for people being unimpressed is the same reason people get upset when someone claims there is "hacking" going on Xbox Live, PSN, or anything else and then tells a story about how they got tricked by phishing.
Is it just me or is a big deal being made out of this? I mean, yeah, she is 10, but specific flaw had been common in time trial software etc for years. If your time trial on something was up you would just wind back the clock and voila, its working again.
My 12 year old brother got this working on his RTM version of Windows 7. He still uses it even though its years old and its fully functional. Why isnt he at defcon...?
My 12 year old brother got this working on his RTM version of Windows 7. He still uses it even though its years old and its fully functional. Why isnt he at defcon...?
the fact that they even call this "hacking" is hilarious. I'm in network security, and the definition of hacking has become so broad at this point, its like anyone can hack. That is besides all the tools available on the internet to preform basic DoS attacks and things like that. Its just... Funny
Wow, some of you guys sure are douchebags.
So the kid didn't break into CENTCOM. She figured out how to exploit games on iOS and Android that were supposedly designed not to allow such exploits. That's the point, not the exploit itself: here's a ten-year-old girl who learned how to take advantage of a flaw in several games written for the most popular mobile gaming platforms on the planet. And the best you can do is say, Oh ho, she's not a REAL hacker?
Nice. Real classy.
So the kid didn't break into CENTCOM. She figured out how to exploit games on iOS and Android that were supposedly designed not to allow such exploits. That's the point, not the exploit itself: here's a ten-year-old girl who learned how to take advantage of a flaw in several games written for the most popular mobile gaming platforms on the planet. And the best you can do is say, Oh ho, she's not a REAL hacker?
Nice. Real classy.
Blimey. I thought the headline meant a person who had been hacking for 10 years, not a 10-year-old hacker.
