Authorities Warn Parents About Sexual Predators in Online Games

@MonkeyPeaches: Well there's a way around ANY security measure if you try hard enough or have the right access but you'd really need a computer or modded console to try & bypass the security on an account, the only thing you can do on a console now is basic brute force cracking & a manually done one at that.

It's been a while since I investigated the security on the 360 but if memory serves you can create child accounts & designate the rights for online presence, chat, video, accessible hours etc. Then you can give the adult account (basically the administrator account to the child's user account) a controller based password consisting of I think 8 keystrokes made up from left trigger, left bumper, right trigger, right bumper, a, b, x & y, that makes what, 16,777,216 possible passwords (I may be wrong, math is something I suck at but it's shitloads any way you look at it).

Think of how easily bored a child gets, is it going to have the patience to make a table of every possible combination then methodically go through them, ticking off each one as they go to make sure they don't repeat one? Unless a child is REALLY lucky, is a supergenius or you've been crap at securing your password by writing it down on a big bit of paper & keeping it next to the TV, the kid is going to be busted LONG before he/she/it can be lured into a van with the promise of free candy & then raped by the evil internet.

And thats just a 360, with a real OS you can secure it properly!

Anyone remember the days when all your parents told you was that if some guy in an unmarked van offered you candy you should run the other way? Things got a bit more complicated regarding child predators.

-"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Sir Winston Churchill

I'd like to bring up a creepier, but far more real threat.

People who sound like pedophiles and sexual predators on XBOX Live.  Honestly, some people need to not own mics.  I'm sick of playing COD4 or BF:BC and hearing people who sound like peewee herman.  It cresp the fuck out of me.

Also, why are their so many kids playing those games anyway?  Everytime I get on a COD4 map, there's someone on my team who's seven.  Where are the fucking parents on that?

Yeah, glad to see also that law bodies aren't ignoring "where the kids go" when it comes to this.  Also, that they are trying to get the parents involved. 

Good to hear they want the parents involved.  I can't speak for how easy it is to get around parental controls (never had to deal with them), but it's good to make sure parents won't be naive as to think simply putting them up is enough.  I'm especially glad to see Microsoft recognizes the problem and is helping law enforcement track people down, although I am a bit concerned over the potential invasion of privacy.  Granted, I keep my hands fairly clean, so I personally don't have anything to worry about, but mistakes do happen.

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